m5stack-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

m5stack-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from iot-forge/m5stack-skills. It costs 521 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of repository instructions for maintaining M5Stack firmware development skills, including their files, documentation, versioning and validation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or updating hardware-reference skills, checking the marketplace layout, updating versions, or validating changes.
Why use it?
It explains rules that can otherwise fail without an error, such as users keeping an old cached version after a skill changes.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions Claude Code.

This is iot-forge/m5stack-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on m5stack-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 m5stack-skills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to iot-forge/m5stack-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/iot-forge/m5stack-skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iot-forge/m5stack-skills

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Per session 521 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 521 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00521 $0.00521
Opus 5.5 $0.00208 $0.00208
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00104 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00052 $0.00052

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 555ac6f811f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

m5stack-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 · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Working in this repo

This is a Claude Code plugin marketplace distributing hardware-reference skills for M5Stack firmware development. Marketplace name: m5stack. Published from github.com/iot-forge/m5stack-skills.

Layout

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json   the catalog users install from
plugins/<plugin>/                 a shipped plugin
  .claude-plugin/plugin.json      its manifest
  skills/<slug>/SKILL.md          a shipped skill
  skills/<slug>/references/*.md   loaded on demand, not up front
docs/catalog/*.md                 the work queue — what's built, what's next
docs/notes/<slug>.md              per-skill build metadata (sourcing, confidence)
scripts/validate.py               structural checks; CI runs this

docs/ never ships to users — it's for whoever maintains this repo.

Two rules that fail silently

Bump the plugin version. Claude Code pins each plugin to the version in its plugin.json. Change a skill's content without bumping it and existing users keep their cached copy — no error, no warning, and no signal that your correction never landed. Any change under plugins/<name>/ needs a bump to plugins/<name>/.claude-plugin/plugin.json.

Validate before pushing.

python3 scripts/validate.py
python3 scripts/check_version_bump.py origin/main   # on a branch

Building or updating a skill

Use the new-device-skill skill in .claude/skills/ — it carries the research workflow, the Controller/Unit/Chip distinction, the file-layout convention, and the specific failure modes this project has already hit. Read it before adding a board; the conventions are load-bearing, not stylistic.

Start from docs/catalog/controllers.md (or units.md / chips.md) to pick what to build next, and update that row when you finish.

Writing style for skills

These are read by a model that is about to write firmware, not by a human browsing docs. Lead with what most often goes wrong. State I2C addresses and GPIO numbers exactly. Mark anything sourced from a forum post or third-party teardown as such, inline — a reader needs to know which claims are load-bearing on one unverified source. Never smooth over a gap; say it's unverified and point at the schematic.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 2mo ago First seen · 56 lines · 521 tokens per session scan A 555ac6f811f9

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m5stack-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository iot-forge/m5stack-skills (5 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 521 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 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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