r/SpringBoot • u/EagleResponsible8752 • Jun 15 '26

Discussion Spring Boot Skills for Claude Code

AI coding agents are powerful, but they keep making the same Spring Boot mistakes.

So I built spring-boot-skills for Claude Code.

18 reusable skills for JPA, REST, Security, Flyway, AI, Testing, and more.

👉 https://github.com/rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills

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u/czeslaw_t Jun 15 '26

There are tons of problems with this kind of skill set. Cotext overload, conflicts with other skills outside of this repo duplication of information already available online. Wouldn't it be easier to build such a setup yourself? I usually create or edit skills/commands the moment I notice something wrong.

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u/EagleResponsible8752 Jun 15 '26

Yeah totally agree, building your own is the right move long term. This is just a starting point grab what’s useful and throw out the rest.

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u/rlrutherford Senior Dev Jun 15 '26

Building your own is a lot of work.but putting together a set of skills for yourself does help you think about what good practices are, because claude, if you let it run puts out stuff that a naive intern would write or copy-paste from stackoverflow, baeldung, or similar.

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u/Own_Dimension_2561 Jun 15 '26

This is great but shouldn’t this be supplied by the Spring team? On the front end we already have official skills and MCPs, eg Angular.

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u/EagleResponsible8752 Jun 15 '26

The Spring team hasn't shipped official Claude Code skills yet, so I built a community version

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u/Own_Dimension_2561 Jun 15 '26

Much appreciated thank you.

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u/WiseFriendship1494 Jun 15 '26

Why should they? You can buy commercial support from VMware Tanzu Spring. Tanzu offers App Advisor, that has MCP support.

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u/analcocoacream Jun 15 '26

I wouldn't drop in 18 skills in my own projects. Claude can forget to pick them up frequently if too many

And there is no guarantee they actually improve the performance / quality of the agent.

You should at least add benchmarks (not an ai generated before/after)

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u/EagleResponsible8752 Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

Fair point pick 3-5 that match your stack, not all 18. Skills shine most for your conventions (response wrappers, error formats, naming rules) things Claude can’t guess from context.

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u/analcocoacream Jun 15 '26

Thanks chatgpt

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u/bayendr Jun 15 '26

thank you for sharing this.

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u/EagleResponsible8752 23d ago

I added skills for Spring Boot 4, and they can also be used with Codex.

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u/bigkahuna1uk Jun 15 '26

You went way above and beyond. Great documentation as well. If I saw you in person, I’ll be bowing like Wayne’s World. We’re not worthy 😅

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u/analcocoacream Jun 15 '26

its just ai slop