Claude Code Workspace Starter Kit

A production-ready scaffold for Claude Code — structured across all 5 layers for three business personas: Enterprise, SMB, and Startup.

Free. Open-source. Drop it into any project in 30 seconds.

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What Is This?

Claude Code has a 5-layer architecture that, when used together, transforms it from a coding assistant into a full engineering platform. This starter kit gives you everything pre-configured for your team type.

Layer 1 — CLAUDE.md      → The Memory Layer     (always loaded, your agent's constitution)
Layer 2 — Skills         → The Knowledge Layer   (on-demand, modular context chunks)
Layer 3 — Hooks          → The Guardrail Layer   (deterministic, event-driven automation)
Layer 4 — Subagents      → The Delegation Layer  (isolated agents with scoped permissions)
Layer 5 — Plugins        → The Distribution Layer (bundled skills + hooks + agents)

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Choose Your Persona

Persona	Best For	Key Themes
Enterprise	100+ engineers, regulated industries	Compliance, audit trails, SOC2, change management
SMB	5–50 people, B2B SaaS	Ship features, protect customers, pragmatic quality
Startup	1–15 people, pre/post-launch	Velocity, MVPs, cost control, growth instrumentation

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Quick Start

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/sseshachala/claude-code-workspace-starter
cd claude-code-workspace-starter

# Run the installer
bash install.sh

The installer will:

1. Ask you to pick a persona
2. Copy the right CLAUDE.md to your project root
3. Copy skills, hooks, agents, and plugins to .claude/
4. Make all hook scripts executable
5. Merge settings.json with your existing Claude Code config

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What's Inside Each Persona

Enterprise

• Skills: compliance-checker, architecture-review, incident-response, change-management, security-audit
• Hooks: pre-tool audit log, secrets blocker, post-tool SOC2 log, session banner
• Agents: security-officer, release-manager, documentation-agent
• Plugin: governance, SLA tracker, compliance gate, compliance bot

SMB

• Skills: shipping-fast, customer-support-triage, feature-scoping, database-migrations, writing-docs
• Hooks: destructive command blocker, session work log, session context banner
• Agents: product-manager, support-agent, deploy-assistant
• Plugin: CRM integration, analytics queries, Slack notifier, onboarding helper

Startup

• Skills: move-fast, mvp-scoping, cost-optimization, api-design, growth-hacking
• Hooks: cloud cost checker, commit reminder, async standup
• Agents: founding-engineer, growth-analyst, investor-update-writer
• Plugin: pitch deck assist, metrics dashboard, velocity tracker, launch coordinator

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Shared Components

All personas inherit from shared/ — common skills (git-workflow, code-review, debugging, writing-tests) and hooks (secrets blocker, tool-use logger) that apply universally.

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Docs

• How the 5 Layers Work
• Architecture Overview
• Customizing Your Persona

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License

MIT. Free forever. Contributions welcome.