vara-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

vara-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from gear-foundation/vara-skills. It costs 883 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of Claude Code skills for applying frameworks and algorithms from A Smart Bear and the book Hidden Multipliers. The input does not provide details about the individual skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for the included frameworks and algorithms, but consult its documentation to see which concrete tasks each skill supports.
Why use it?
The available description is too brief to identify a specific problem it solves.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is gear-foundation/vara-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on vara-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 vara-skills configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to gear-foundation/vara-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.

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Clone the repo
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CLAUDE.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 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 Repo Is

A portable, self-contained skill pack for Gear/Vara Sails smart contract builders. It ships as markdown skills, shared reference docs, and validation tooling — packaged for Claude Code (plugin), Codex, and OpenClaw.

Current version: 3.0.0 (sails-rs 1.0.0). The skill catalog is provisional until the sibling vara-skills-evals repo proves uplift.

Commands

make verify          # Run the full validation suite (layout, skills, parser, install, packaging, update)
make test-layout     # Repo structure checks only
make test-skills     # Skill validation + catalog + gstd-api-map tests
make test-parser     # gtest output parser tests
make test-install    # Codex install script tests
make test-packaging  # Claude plugin metadata validation
make test-update     # Auto-update check script tests

All tests are Python 3 (python3 tests/<file>.py). No pip dependencies required.

Architecture

Content layers

  • SKILL.md (root) — top-level router that dispatches by builder intent to specific skills
  • skills/<name>/SKILL.md — individual workflow or topic skills (24 total), each may contain assets/ subdirs
  • references/ — self-contained handbook covering Gear execution, Sails architecture, IDL/client pipeline, gtest patterns, and more. Skills reference these via relative paths.
  • assets/ — canonical output templates (spec, architecture, task-plan, gtest report)
  • VERSION — single-line version file, kept in sync with marketplace.json
  • bin/vara-skills-update-check — bash script that checks for new versions on each skill invocation. State cached in ~/.vara-skills/ (cache, snooze, upgrade marker). Controlled via env vars: VARA_SKILLS_UPDATE_CHECK=false to disable, VARA_SKILLS_AUTO_UPGRADE=true for silent upgrades.

Packaging surfaces

  • Claude Code plugin: .claude-plugin/plugin.json + marketplace.json define the plugin. Skills under skills/ are loaded directly.
  • Codex: scripts/install-codex-skills.sh installs skill directories locally.
  • OpenClaw: openclaw-skill/SKILL.md wraps the same content.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

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vara-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gear-foundation/vara-skills (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 883 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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