superskills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

superskills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ariadoss/superskills. It costs 1,220 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Engineering and maintenance instructions for Superskills, a collection of reusable agent skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or editing skills, shell scripts, tests, or release metadata in the Superskills project.
Why use it?
It sets consistent standards for tests, design, version numbers, documentation, and synchronization when skills or scripts change.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is ariadoss/superskills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on superskills 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 superskills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ariadoss/superskills. 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
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ariadoss/superskills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ariadoss/superskills

Made for: Claude Code.

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01220 $0.01220
Opus 5 $0.00610 $0.00610
Sonnet 5 $0.00244 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00122 $0.00122

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Security

Grade A, and why

superskills 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 7d 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 · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Superskills

Engineering standards (applies to all code in this repo)

All code here — setup, scripts/, skill helpers, anything executable — follows ENGINEERING_STANDARDS.md: TDD, DRY, SOLID, YAGNI, to a Google/Meta-quality bar. Concretely:

  • Shell/library code is tested with bats. Run ./tests/run.sh before committing any change to setup, scripts/, or tests/. New behavior gets a failing test first (TDD); logic shared across call sites lives in one place (scripts/lib/skills-lib.sh), not copy-pasted (DRY).
  • Skills that generate or review code must enforce the same bar by referencing ENGINEERING_STANDARDS.md, not by restating it. When you add or edit a code-producing or quality-gate skill, point it at that file.

Versioning

Always increment VERSION before committing and pushing any change:

  • Patch (2.x.X) — bug fixes, typo corrections, small clarifications to existing skills
  • Minor (2.X.0) — new skills, significant updates to existing skills, new tool support
  • Major (X.0.0) — breaking changes, major new capability bundles

Update the version badge in README.md to match (e.g. v2.1.0v2.2.0).

After bumping VERSION, run ./scripts/sync-version.sh to propagate it into the plugin manifests (.claude-plugin/plugin.json, .claude-plugin/marketplace.json, .codex-plugin/plugin.json). These version fields are what trigger the native "plugins updated" alert in Claude Code and Codex — a bump that doesn't reach them means existing plugin installs never see the update. VERSION is the single source of truth; the manifests are generated from it, never hand-edited.

Always re-run ./setup after a pull or after adding a skill

Skills are exposed to the tools as symlinks created by ./setup. Edits to an existing skill propagate instantly (the symlink points at the live file), but a new skill is invisible until ./setup runs again to create its link.

So:

  • After every git pull in this repo — run ./setup (a post-merge git hook does this automatically once you've run setup once; if you cloned fresh, run it manually the first time).
  • After adding a new skill locally, before you push — run ./setup so the new skill is linked and testable in your own environment.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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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superskills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ariadoss/superskills (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,220 tokens to every session, about $0.0061 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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