abilities: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

abilities CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Abilityai/abilities. It costs 1,935 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for maintaining the Abilities plugin marketplace, a collection of Claude Code add-ons described mainly with configuration files and written guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when creating plugins, editing marketplace metadata, installing plugins, or changing the marketplace's documentation-driven structure.
Why use it?
They give coding agents a shared overview of the project, its folder layout, and the rules for adding or updating plugins.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is Abilityai/abilities's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on abilities itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything abilities configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Abilityai/abilities. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/abilities

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Security

Grade A, and why

abilities CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

This is the Abilities Plugin Marketplace - a curated collection of Claude Code plugins from Ability.ai. The project is documentation-driven: plugins are defined through YAML frontmatter and procedural markdown instructions, not traditional code.

Repository Structure

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json  # Central registry of all plugins
plugins/
  ├── create-agent/             # Create new agents (domain wizards + custom)
  ├── agent-dev/                # Develop agents (skills, memory, backlog, planning)
  ├── trinity/                  # Deploy to Trinity platform
  ├── dev-methodology/          # Documentation-driven development
  └── utilities/                # General-purpose utility skills

Each plugin follows this structure:

plugins/[name]/
  ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json  # Plugin metadata
  ├── README.md                   # User documentation
  ├── skills/[skill-name]/        # Skill-based plugins
  │   ├── SKILL.md               # Skill definition with YAML frontmatter
  │   └── reference.md           # Technical reference
  └── commands/[cmd].md          # Command-based plugins

Plugin Installation

# Add marketplace (one-time)
/plugin marketplace add abilityai/abilities

# Install plugins
/plugin install create-agent@abilityai    # Create new agents
/plugin install agent-dev@abilityai       # Add skills, memory, backlog
/plugin install trinity@abilityai         # Deploy to Trinity
/plugin install dev-methodology@abilityai # Documentation-driven dev
/plugin install utilities@abilityai       # General utilities

# Manual installation from local
/plugin add ./plugins/trinity

Skill Definition Format

Skills use YAML frontmatter to declare metadata and permissions:

---
name: skill-name
description: What the skill does
allowed-tools: Read, Write, Bash
user-invocable: true
argument-hint: "[optional args]"
---
# Procedural instructions follow in markdown

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

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abilities CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/abilities (12 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,935 tokens to every session, about $0.0077 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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