/bare-metal-bringup
Use when bringing up bare-metal or kernel code on a new architecture, SoC, or board (RISC-V, ARM, x86, ESP32) and it won't boot, hangs after boot, or faults early; covers trap vectors, MMU/PMP, syscall ABI, and boot ordering
$ npx -y skills add Midstall/claude-for-hardware --skill bare-metal-bringup --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/bare-metal-bringup
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The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
Use when bringing up bare-metal or kernel code on a new architecture, SoC, or board (RISC-V, ARM, x86, ESP32) and it won't boot, hangs after boot, or faults early; covers trap vectors, MMU/PMP, syscall ABI, and boot ordering
Claude Code skills for hardware design, validation, and bring-up. A plugin of focused skills that teach Claude how to do real hardware work: designing reusable HDL, integrating an SoC, bringing up FPGAs and bare-metal targets, building firmware boot chains,
Repo: Midstall/claude-for-hardware
Other skills on claude-for-hardware.
- /codegen-validation
Use when building or debugging a compiler backend, codegen, or assembler and you need to prove the generated machine code is correct by executing it on a real CPU or a fast emulator, not just inspecting the output
Open skill - /differential-verification
Use when verifying a hardware DUT (a CPU core, FPGA, or netlist) against a golden reference model, building coverage-guided fuzzing, or detecting where silicon diverges from a simulator like Spike, an emulator, or SPICE
Open skill - /firmware-boot-chain
Use when building or debugging a firmware and boot chain (RISC-V SBI, UEFI, ACPI, a bootloader handoff like Limine to an OS) or adding measured boot with a TPM, and a stage fails to hand off to the next
Open skill - /fpga-bringup
Use when loading a bitstream onto a physical FPGA and driving or observing it over JTAG or GPIO, especially bit-banged JTAG from a host like a Raspberry Pi, or when configuration silently fails
Open skill - /fpga-synthesis-fit
Use when synthesizing RTL to an FPGA with yosys/nextpnr (ECP5/Lattice and similar), fighting area or routing congestion, measuring Fmax, deciding why a design won't fit or route, or instantiating block RAM; covers the pre-pack vs post-pack metric trap
Open skill - /hdl-module-design
Use when writing, refactoring, or deciding how to test an HDL module, component, or IP block (ROHD, Chisel, SpinalHDL, Verilog, VHDL) and you need it parameterized, validated, and covered by exhaustive tests rather than a one-off
Open skill