How to fly with Claude at Planes.
Your out-of-the-box skills, set up. These are some of the best skills we've found and started reaching for regularly. Where it made sense, we've shaped them around how we already work at Planes.
Set up your cockpit.
Five things that change how well Claude works for you. Do them once.
Pick the right model
Give every project a memory
Install the skills you reach for
Open Claude Code and add The Hangar marketplace once, then install whichever plugins you want:
claude plugin marketplace add teamplanes/hangarclaude plugin install hangar-design@planes-hangarSwap the bay name for your discipline. Skills land as slash commands and survive between sessions. No re-pasting.
Use Projects for ongoing client work
Stay up to date
New skills land in The Hangar all the time. Turn on auto-update once and Claude pulls the latest at the start of each session (you'll get a /reload-plugins nudge when something new arrives). Run /plugin, open Marketplaces, select planes-hangar, enable auto-update. Or add to your settings:
"extraKnownMarketplaces": {
"planes-hangar": {
"source": { "source": "github", "repo": "teamplanes/hangar" },
"autoUpdate": true
}
}Prefer to pull manually? claude plugin marketplace update then claude plugin update hangar-<bay>. After an update, run /hangar-general:whats-new for a rundown of what landed. Whole team? Drop our .claude/settings.json into a repo and everyone gets it on auto-update.
The skills worth installing.
Picked by discipline. Start with General, add your bay on top.
What's new in the Hangar
Show a rundown of the skills most recently added to The Hangar, what each does and how to run it, so you know what you just got after a plugin update.
Humanizer
Strip the tells out of AI-generated writing so it reads like a person wrote it. Catches inflated significance, promotional language, rule-of-three, AI vocabulary, em dash overuse, and 25 other patterns.
Email polish
Rewrite a draft email to be clearer, shorter, and more likely to get a reply.
Second opinion
Get a structured devil's advocate on any decision, plan, or proposal, what you might be missing, what could go wrong, and what a smart critic would say.
Rubber-ducking with a critical Claude
Turns Claude into the colleague who asks the awkward question. Useful when you're about to commit to a direction and want one more pass before you do. - About …
What people are actually reaching for.
Ranked by copies this week. Real usage, not editorial.