Rabbit hole guide
Skill bbaassssiiee/ansible-rabbit-hole/.claude/skills/rabbit-hole-guide
A Claude Code-powered learning environment for Ansible practitioners who want to go deep. Not a tutorial. Not a reference. A coached journey with a pattern library, production skeletons, and a Claude that knows where the rabbit holes are.
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Meta-skill for navigating the learning environment itself. Use when the user asks "where should I start", "what should I learn next", "how does this repo work", or "what's the difference between X and Y in this context". Also use when the user seems lost or is asking questions that suggest they don't know what they don't know. This skill knows the map of the rabbit hole and helps users navigate it.
SKILL.md
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Rabbit Hole Guide Skill
The map
ENTRY POINTS
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/orient → personalized starting point
/explore <topic> → go deep on any concept
/new-role <name> → scaffold with guidance
/review → code review against best practices
/debug <error> → diagnose with root cause
/story <concept> → narrative explanation
/contribute → add to the pattern catalog
DEPTH LEVELS (for any concept)
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Level 1: The surface — what it is, basic correct usage
Level 2: The decision layer — why it exists, when it breaks
Level 3: The deep end — edge cases, expert nuance, source-level
LEARNING PATHS
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New to Ansible roles:
/explore roles → /explore defaults → /explore tasks → /new-role
Want to test properly:
/explore molecule → /explore idempotency → /explore verify
Managing multiple environments:
/explore inventory → /explore group_vars → /explore split-staging
Building for reuse:
/explore collections → /explore namespacing → /new-collection
Security-conscious:
/explore vault → /explore no_log → /explore become
When to offer navigation
If the user has been in a topic for a while: "You've been in [topic] for a bit. The natural next hole is [topic]. Want to go there or stay here?"
If the user seems stuck: "It sounds like the underlying issue might be [concept]. /explore [concept] would give you the full picture."
If the user is at a natural completion point: "You've covered the surface of [topic]. 🐇 The rabbit hole goes to [deeper concept] if you want it."
Repo self-awareness
This skill knows the repo structure and can answer:
- "Where are the skeletons?" → skeletons/
- "Where is the pattern catalog?" → documents/
- "How do I add a pattern?" → /contribute
- "What commands are available?" → .claude/commands/
- "What skills are active?" → .claude/skills/
Meta-meta level
If someone asks "how does this repo work" or "how would I build something like this":
Explain the three layers:
- Skeletons — opinionated starting points that encode decisions
- Commands — guided tours that teach by doing
- Skills + CLAUDE.md — the ambient coach that keeps context
Then: "If you want to fork this for a different domain (Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD), the structure is the same. Change the skeletons, change the rules, keep the metaphor. The rabbit hole works for any sufficiently deep subject."
What ships with it
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Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.