What is elastic-docs-skills CLAUDE.md?

Repository instructions for a catalog of Claude Code skills used in Elastic documentation work. They describe where skills live, what files they contain, and how skills are installed and invoked.

Use them when creating or reviewing Elastic documentation skills, their metadata, optional evaluations, installation files, and repository-specific instructions.

They give contributors a shared structure for writing documentation skills and prevent project-specific guidance from becoming inconsistent or misplaced.

How elastic/elastic-docs-skills configures Claude Code

About the project

Elastic Docs Skills is a collection of Claude Code skills for creating and maintaining Elastic documentation. It is for developers and documentation contributors who use coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex. The catalogue entries are the project's reusable documentation workflows, agents, plugin, and instruction.

elastic/elastic-docs-skills · 72 stars · on GitHub · elastic.github.io

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to elastic/elastic-docs-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

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elastic/elastic-docs-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 875 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 875 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00875	$0.00875
Opus 5.5	$0.00350	$0.00350
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00175	$0.00175
Haiku 4.5	$0.00088	$0.00088

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 865648a6cc97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elastic-docs-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 2mo 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 · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Elastic Docs Skills — Project Guide

What this repo is

A catalog of Claude Code skills for Elastic documentation workflows. Skills are installed into ~/.claude/skills/ via install.sh and used as slash commands or auto-triggered behaviors in Claude Code.

Repository layout

skills/<category>/<skill-name>/
  SKILL.md          # The skill definition (frontmatter + instructions)
  evals/evals.json  # Test cases for the skill (optional but encouraged)
.claude/skills/     # Skills that work within this repo only (e.g., /create-skill)
.github/workflows/  # CI and gh-aw agentic workflows
.github/agents/     # Copilot agent definitions

Skill anatomy

Every skills/**/SKILL.md must have YAML frontmatter:

---
name: docs-my-skill              # Required — kebab-case skill invocation name
version: 1.0.0              # Required — SemVer
description: What it does    # Required — when to trigger this skill
argument-hint: <args>        # Shown in autocomplete if skill accepts input
disable-model-invocation: true  # Only via /my-skill, not auto-triggered
context: fork                # Run in isolated subagent
allowed-tools: Read, Grep    # Tools available without user approval
sources:                     # Upstream URLs this skill encodes (for freshness checks)
  - https://www.elastic.co/docs/some-page
---

Conventions

Skill names are kebab-case and must be unique across the catalog
Version follows SemVer: bump PATCH for fixes, MINOR for new features, MAJOR for breaking changes
Use context: fork for catalog skills so they run in an isolated subagent context
Skills that modify files should include Edit or Write in allowed-tools
All skills that accept $ARGUMENTS should have argument-hint
Skills derived from upstream docs should list URLs in sources: frontmatter

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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.

2mo ago First seen · 86 lines · 875 tokens per session scan A 865648a6cc97

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elastic-docs-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository elastic/elastic-docs-skills (72 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 875 tokens to every session, about $0.0035 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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