trove: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

trove CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from bravew/trove. It costs 1,896 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Trove, an open-source marketplace that turns plugin and skill definitions into formats for Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, and other coding assistants.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build skills, assemble plugins, generate marketplace catalogues, validate manifests, or run installer and acceptance checks.
Why use it?
It documents the build stages and validation commands needed to keep generated plugins and marketplace files consistent.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

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

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Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01896 $0.01896
Opus 5.5 $0.00758 $0.00758
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00379 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00190 $0.00190

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9c3ff0202272, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trove 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 · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 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.

What This Is

Trove — an open-source plugin marketplace for AI coding assistants. Plugins and skills are authored once and compiled to platform-specific formats for Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, and a generic AGENTS.md fallback (Copilot/Windsurf/others).

Common Commands

bun install                   # Install dependencies
bun run build                 # Full 3-stage build (skills → plugins → marketplace)
bun run build:skills          # Stage 1 only: resolve templates → SKILL.md
bun run build:plugins         # Stage 2 only: assemble plugin manifests + copy skills
bun run build:marketplace     # Stage 3 only: generate per-platform marketplace.json + catalog.json
bun run verify:generated      # Build, then fail if it had to repair a committed artifact
bun run validate              # Validate all structure, naming, frontmatter, secrets
bun run validate:plugins      # Validate plugins only
bun run validate:market       # Validate marketplace only
bun run validate:claude-manifests  # claude plugin validate --strict, all plugins
bun run test:acceptance:setup      # Installer link layout in a disposable HOME
bun run dev                   # Watch mode (rebuilds on change)
bun test                      # Run tests

# Scaffolding
bun run scaffold:plugin -- --name trove-testing --role dev
bun run scaffold:skill -- --plugin trove-dev --name trove-debug

# Importing external skills (see CONTRIBUTING.md and docs/upstream-sync.md)
bun run import:skill -- --inspect <git-url> --ref <sha>   # Report only: license, selection, flags
bun run import:skill -- --stage <git-url> --id <name> --plugin <plugin> --category <dir> --mode vendored|adapted
/import-skill <git-url> --ref <sha> --id <name> --plugin <plugin> --category <dir>   # Guided, in Claude Code
bun run sync:upstream -- --check --offline   # Verify locks against local bytes, no network
bun run sync:upstream -- --check             # Compare locks with upstream heads

# Evals
bun run eval:gate             # Quality gate (CI blocker on main)
bun run eval:changed          # Eval only changed skills

# CLI
./bin/trove search "security"
./bin/trove list --role=dev
./bin/trove info trove-dev

# Release
bun run bump-version          # Auto-bump VERSION file
bun run promote-stable        # Promote canary to stable

# Setup (installs to detected hosts)
./setup                       # Auto-detect Claude/Cursor/Codex/OpenCode/Gemini
./setup --host claude         # Claude Code only
./setup --host opencode       # OpenCode only
./setup --host gemini         # Gemini CLI only
./setup --role dev            # Developer plugins only
./setup --uninstall           # Remove every link the installer created

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines · +159 tokens per session 9c3ff0202272
  2. 2mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +31 tokens per session 45d2d9308e9a
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 147 lines · 1,706 tokens per session scan A b214c3135853

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trove CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bravew/trove (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,896 tokens to every session, about $0.0076 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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