skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from astriaai/skills. It costs 712 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Claude Code instructions for working in the astriaai/skills repository. It explains the repository layout, Astria’s command-line tool, conventions for skills, and testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing, testing, or navigating skills in astriaai/skills.
Why use it?
It gives Claude Code the project-specific rules needed to make consistent changes in that repository.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to astriaai/skills. 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/astriaai/skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/astriaai/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Measured 15d ago against content hash 64274f84a72f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

skills 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 15d 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 · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Astria skills — repository guide

The canonical public skills live in top-level <name>/SKILL.md directories. For database-backed workflows, the full recipe is owned by the private sdbooth/doc/skills/ source and published through agent_skills:sync. Public mux and fashion-music-track skills are loaders only: preserve their names and triggers, and read their instructions with get_skill. Change recipes in the private source; do not copy them into the public skills or packaging. Source manifests and assets live in packaging/; generated packages and marketplaces live under ignored dist/marketplace/ and ship as release ZIPs. The Astria web-agent sandbox also bundles these skills with its independently authenticated CLI and private embedded skills.

API transport

Installed plugins use OAuth-connected Astria MCP tools for supported API operations. The host owns login, token storage and refresh. Use live tool schemas; names may have a host namespace. Never read host credentials or silently fall back to the CLI after an MCP authentication failure.

The CLI remains available for local files, downloads, video inspection/Variate, workspace/template creation, landing pages, board edits and agent handoff. It has separate authentication. The embedded Astria web-agent sandbox may expose only the authenticated CLI; preserve that supported environment. Conditional instructions live in astria-api/references/cli.md, not in the default MCP entrypoint. Never build a second API client in skills.

bin/astria is vendored from astriaai/cli. Change the canonical CLI there, then run scripts/sync-cli.sh [ref]. Shared operation definitions and argparse generate MCP schemas; add new remote-safe parameters there and synchronize Rails through bin/sync-astria-mcp.

Packaging

  • packaging/marketplaces/claude.json owns the canonical skill list. Add each skill as a "./<name>" path.
  • mcp.json owns the portable HTTPS endpoint. scripts/sync-plugin.py generates root and packaged .mcp.json HTTP compatibility configs.
  • scripts/sync-plugin.sh --no-local-links copies canonical skills (including references), manifests, MCP configuration and the vendored CLI to dist/marketplace/plugins/. Without that flag it also refreshes developer symlinks.
  • Never commit generated plugin copies. Build --target marketplace for the complete installable marketplace ZIP; individual targets remain upload ZIPs.
  • No SessionStart CLI-auth hook: OAuth is managed by the host.
  • Keep skill frontmatter descriptions focused; retain shell permissions only for skills that actually need optional terminal workflows.
  • Public skills must not depend on private web-chat browser command protocols. Composer tools apply only when the host exposes them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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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skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository astriaai/skills (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 712 tokens to every session, about $0.0028 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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