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.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add instructions/elastic/elastic-docs-skills/claude-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elastic/elastic-docs-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/elastic/elastic-docs-skills/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/elastic/elastic-docs-skills/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/elastic/elastic-docs-skills/claude-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00438 | $0.00438 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00175 | $0.00175 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00088 | $0.00088 |
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 6d 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.
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
---
Categories
- authoring — Skills that help write or edit documentation content
- changelogs — Skills for changelog YAML, release notes, and changelog tooling
- review — Skills that validate, lint, or check existing content
- project — Skills scoped to specific documentation areas (e.g., Kibana Lens charts)
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: forkfor catalog skills so they run in an isolated subagent context - Skills that modify files should include
EditorWriteinallowed-tools - All skills that accept
$ARGUMENTSshould haveargument-hint - Skills derived from upstream docs should list URLs in
sources:frontmatter
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 86 lines · 875 tokens per session scan A 865648a6cc97
elastic-docs-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository elastic/elastic-docs-skills (71 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 875 tokens to every session, about $0.0044 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 2026-08-30.
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