The Best Django and FastAPI Skills for Claude Code

Four skills, two frameworks, one shared baseline. The split matters because Django and FastAPI fail in opposite ways: Django is opinionated and misconfigures; FastAPI is unopinionated and drifts.

Python web development in our directory is covered by four skills scoring 9.0 or above — an unusually high floor. They divide into one baseline, one general framework skill, one specialist, and one alternative framework.

The skills worth installing

django-storages-s3 — 9.4 · Productivity

Django static and media storage on AWS S3 via django-storages. A single, specific configuration task — and the highest score in the group. That is not a coincidence: narrow, verifiable configuration skills tend to score better than broad ones, because there is a correct answer and the skill can encode it.

django-expert — 9.3 · Productivity

Django web applications and REST APIs with Django REST Framework. The generalist for the framework: models, views, serializers, permissions, and the conventions that make Django projects maintainable.

fastapi-expert — 9.1 · Developer Tools

Async Python APIs with FastAPI and Pydantic. The failure mode here is different from Django: FastAPI lets you structure a project many ways, and without strong opinions an agent will invent a new structure every session. This skill supplies the conventions Django gives you for free.

python-pro — 9.0 · Developer Tools

Modern Python 3.11+: type safety, async patterns, packaging. The baseline both framework skills assume. Worth installing alongside either, especially for type-heavy code.

The pairing rule

Install exactly one framework skill plus the baseline:

• Django project → django-expert + python-pro
• FastAPI project → fastapi-expert + python-pro
• Django on S3 → add django-storages-s3

Installing both framework skills is a common mistake. Their descriptions overlap on "Python web API", and an agent choosing between them will sometimes choose wrong — which produces FastAPI advice inside a Django codebase.

Why the specialist scores highest

django-storages-s3 at 9.4 is a useful illustration of what scores well. The task is bounded, the correct configuration is known, and success is verifiable — either files upload to S3 or they do not. Broad skills are graded on judgment; narrow ones on correctness, and correctness is easier to score confidently.

That does not make the broad skills worse. It means their scores carry more uncertainty — which is why every one of them ships with its written rationale.

How to choose

• Django? django-expert, plus django-storages-s3 if you use S3.
• FastAPI? fastapi-expert.
• Either way? Add python-pro.

The developer tools category covers testing, debugging, and the architecture skills that sit above the framework.