vibe-engineering: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

vibe-engineering CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ash1794/vibe-engineering. It costs 1,057 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-specific instruction file for a Claude Code marketplace containing one plugin with 38 engineering skills, also shared with Codex.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing the marketplace, plugin files, skills, installation flow, or validation rules.
Why use it?
It records the repository layout and rules that keep the plugin installable and prevent invalid marketplace or plugin structures.

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 ash1794/vibe-engineering's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on vibe-engineering 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 vibe-engineering configures →

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is └── .agents/skills -> ../plugins/vibe-engineering/skills # Codex + Gemini CLI.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ash1794/vibe-engineering. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering

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vibe-engineering 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 20d ago.

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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 · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Project notes for Claude Code (and any other AI agent) working in this repo.

What this repo is

A Claude Code marketplace (vibe-plugins) that ships one plugin (vibe-engineering) containing 33 engineering-discipline skills. The same SKILL.md files also power OpenAI Codex and Gemini CLI via .agents/skills/ (the Agent Skills standard path).

vibe-engineering/                       # repo root = marketplace root
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── marketplace.json                # marketplace: "vibe-plugins"
├── plugins/
│   └── vibe-engineering/               # plugin root
│       ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json  # plugin: "vibe-engineering"
│       └── skills/                     # 33 skills, folder name == `name`
└── .agents/skills -> ../plugins/vibe-engineering/skills  # Codex + Gemini CLI

Install flow users follow:

/plugin marketplace add ash1794/vibe-engineering
/plugin install vibe-engineering@vibe-plugins

Plugin structure invariants — DO NOT BREAK THESE

These three rules are non-negotiable. Breaking any one produces either an uninstallable repo or a recursive plugin-cache loop (issue #1). scripts/validate-skills.sh enforces all three in CI — the build will fail if you violate them.

1. .claude-plugin/marketplace.json MUST exist at the repo root

Without it, /plugin marketplace add has nothing to catalog. The repo becomes uninstallable via any supported Claude Code flow. The claude plugin add github:... command advertised in older docs does not exist.

History: commit 50e13ad deleted marketplace.json to work around the recursion bug below. It made the plugin uninstallable for a full release cycle. Don't repeat this.

2. The plugin directory MUST NOT be the repo root

The plugin must live in a subdirectory (we use plugins/vibe-engineering/), not alongside marketplace.json. If plugin.json sits next to marketplace.json, Claude Code's plugin cache copies the entire repo — including marketplace.json — into ~/.claude/plugins/cache/<marketplace>/<plugin>/. The cached plugin directory then also looks like a marketplace, Claude Code re-enumerates it, and you get cache/.../cache/... recursion until ENAMETOOLONG.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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.

  1. 20d ago Changed 8453e8c10964
  2. 28d ago Changed 6350f85a5373
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines · +158 tokens per session f7c688edec65
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 66 lines · 899 tokens per session scan A cc81d5eca042

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vibe-engineering CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ash1794/vibe-engineering (165 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,057 tokens to every session, about $0.0042 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 2026-08-31.

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