Platform Hiring Skill: What It Does and How to Install It

Helps a hiring manager build the scorecard, interview loop, sourcing plan and pay stance for a developer-platform role.

Installs: 9.7K; on skills.sh
Stars: 9; on GitHub
Files: 5; besides SKILL.md
Updated: Nov 2026; last repo commit

developer-platform-hiring makes Claude produce four artefacts for hiring an API Product Manager, Platform Engineer or Architect, or Partner or Integration Engineer: a role scorecard, an interview loop, a sourcing plan and a compensation stance. It clarifies first what "platform engineer" means, since the term often means internal developer platforms.

It loads when you ask how to hire for these roles, write a posting or design a loop. It asks nine interview questions, runs a quality gate and can read a posting for red flags. It is the employer side only and bundles four reference files and no scripts.

Good for

Hiring managers recruiting API PMs or platform engineers
Recruiters writing postings for developer-platform roles
Founders setting pay for a first platform hire

Install developer-platform-hiring

Claude Code

Copy this prompt.

Install the developer-platform-hiring skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

/plugin marketplace add samber/developer-platform-skills
/plugin install developer-platform-skills@developer-platform-skills

Then check that it loaded and tell me how to use it.

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Paste it into Claude Code. It shows the change and asks before running it.

The README installs every skill in the repo (61 skills/*/SKILL.md in the git tree), because skills here reference each other. developer-platform-hiring is one of them. Pick one route, not both.

From the project README. Source.

What's in the skill

When it loads

Employer-side hiring for developer-platform roles - API Product Manager, Platform Engineer/Architect, Partner/Integration Engineer. Disambiguates "platform engineer" first, since the term overwhelmingly means internal developer platforms elsewhere in the industry. Calibrates the scorecard to company archetype (infra/API-first, bolt-on public API, enterprise partner ecosystem), flags a scope-collapse pattern distinct from DevRel's gatekeeper/pit-trap taxonomy, sources from apidays, not PlatformCon's internal-IDP audience, builds the loop from the API-design-vs-system-design interview split, and benchmarks compensation against the general engineering/PM ladder rather than a bespoke platform title. Use when the user asks how to hire a platform engineer, API product manager, or partner/integration engineer, write a posting, or design a loop. Do NOT use for candidate prep (samber/developer-platform-skills@developer-platform-career) or DevRel hiring (samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-hiring).

Sections in SKILL.md

Disambiguate "platform engineer" first
Interview
Reading the answers
Workflow
Reading a posting for red flags
Company type and role-track calibration
Quality gate
Common failure modes
Reference

Key facts

Author: Samuel Berthe
Repo: samber/developer-platform-skills, which holds 61 skills
License: MIT (LICENSE, README, plugin.json and SKILL.md all say MIT)
Version in SKILL.md: 1.0.1
Installs on skills.sh: 9,680 (Nov 2, 2026)
GitHub stars (repo): 9 (Nov 2, 2026)
Last commit (repo): Nov 1, 2026
What installs: 6 files including SKILL.md: 4 reference files and evals/evals.json; no scripts
Needs: The other skills in the repo; the README says to install all of them
Works in: Claude.ai, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and tools that read skills.sh installs

What it includes

Clarifies external API platform versus internal developer platform.
Disambiguate "platform engineer"
Asks nine questions and states the archetype calibration for you to veto.
Archetypes: infra or API-first, bolt-on public API, enterprise partner ecosystem.
Interview
Builds a mission sentence, 3 to 8 measurable outcomes and weighted competencies.
Artefact 1: role scorecard
Builds the loop around the API-design interview versus system design.
Artefact 2: interview loop
Names where to source for each track.
Artefact 3: sourcing plan
Anchors offers to the general engineering or PM bands.
Artefact 4: compensation stance
Re-checks the artefacts and iterates until they pass.
Then optionally stores them for the next hire if your agent has memory.
Quality gate

From the official docs

Permissions

Low risk

This skill writes design advice and bundles no scripts, so the main thing to watch is where your agent saves notes.

What it can do

Read your data
Create and change things
Delete things
Read-only mode

Watch out for

It may save notes to developer-platform-context.md
SKILL.md says that when your agent keeps memory in a file, it should consider using this file name. Our advice: keep it out of commits if it holds company plans. github.com

Technical details

Scopes	Asks you interview questions and writes a plan from your answers

Questions

How do I install developer-platform-hiring?

Use the install box at the top of this page. The README says to install every skill in samber/developer-platform-skills, not one, because the skills hand work to each other. Pick one route per agent.

Does developer-platform-hiring work in Claude, Codex and Cursor?

The README documents install routes for Claude.ai (plugin marketplace), Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and the skills.sh CLI. The install box lists each one.

What does it ask me before it designs anything?

SKILL.md lists nine questions to ask first, and the answers change the later steps. Have your current setup and constraints ready.

Does it run scripts or need an API key?

It bundles no scripts. The folder holds SKILL.md, reference Markdown files and an evals file, and the skill works by asking you questions and writing advice.

Is developer-platform-hiring safe to install?

It bundles no scripts, so installing it adds instructions and reference files rather than programs. SKILL.md also suggests that, if your agent keeps notes in a file, it uses developer-platform-context.md. Our advice: keep that file out of public commits if it holds company plans, and check any figures the skill cites against their sources before quoting them to customers.

Is this for candidates?

No. SKILL.md points candidate prep to developer-platform-career and DevRel hiring to devrel-hiring in a separate repository, samber/developer-relations-skills.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository: samber/developer-platform-skills
Folder: skills/developer-platform-hiring

samber/developer-platform-skills skills.sh

Sources

Docs, issue trackers and discussions this page is built from.

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samber/developer-platform-skills README · github.com
developer-platform-hiring SKILL.md · github.com