What is vara-skills CLAUDE.md?

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.

Use it for the included frameworks and algorithms, but consult its documentation to see which concrete tasks each skill supports.

The available description is too brief to identify a specific problem it solves.

How gear-foundation/vara-skills configures Claude Code

Reuse

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.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gear-foundation/vara-skills/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gear-foundation/vara-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 883 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 883 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	$0.00883	$0.00883
Opus 5.5	$0.00353	$0.00353
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00177	$0.00177
Haiku 4.5	$0.00088	$0.00088

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 93a83b944698, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vara-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 · 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

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 · 65 lines · 883 tokens per session scan A 93a83b944698

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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 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 883 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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