claude-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from MattModeCode/claude-skills. It costs 826 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for maintaining a repository of Claude Code skills, where each skill has its own folder, implementation file, and human-readable documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding skills, writing their README files, or deciding where repository-wide and skill-specific information belongs.
Why use it?
It keeps the repository layout and skill documentation consistent as new skills are added.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; built for gstack.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to MattModeCode/claude-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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curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MattModeCode/claude-skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MattModeCode/claude-skills

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CLAUDE.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Guidance for Claude Code when working in this repo.

This is a personal library of published Claude Code skills. One folder per skill lives under skills/. The job here is to keep every skill documented the same way, so the repo stays consistent as it grows.

Repo layout

README.md                      # generic library index — NEVER holds skill-specific detail
CLAUDE.md                      # this file
LICENSE
skills/
  <skill-name>/
    SKILL.md                   # the skill itself: frontmatter (name, description) + body
    README.md                  # human documentation for that skill
  • SKILL.md is what Claude Code loads and runs. Its description: frontmatter drives auto-triggering — leave it alone when you're only writing docs; it's tuned separately.
  • README.md (per skill) is the human-facing page someone reads when they browse into the folder. Skill-specific detail lives here, never in the root README.
  • Root README.md is the index for the whole library and stays generic.

When adding a new skill

Do all of these, in order:

  1. Create skills/<skill-name>/ containing the SKILL.md.

  2. Write skills/<skill-name>/README.md using the template below.

  3. Add one row to the Skills Library table in the root README.md (name links to the folder, Docs links to the skill's README):

    | [`<skill-name>`](./skills/<skill-name>) | <one line: what it does> | [README](./skills/<skill-name>/README.md) |
    
  4. Keep the root README generic. If a skill needs a dependency, the root README mentions it only as "some skills require X" — exact requirements go in the skill's own README.

  5. Update the GitHub About description only if the library's overall framing changes — not per skill.

  6. Make the change on a branch and open a PR; don't push docs straight to main.

Per-skill README.md template

Common skeleton for every skill, then a type-specific body.

# <skill-name>

<One-line summary.> <When it auto-triggers — Claude loads it on a matching request; you
don't name it.>

## Requirements

- **[Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)**.
- <Any hard dependency, e.g. gstack — note if the skill is non-functional without it.>

## Usage

<Concrete invocation examples / inputs.>

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claude-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository MattModeCode/claude-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 826 tokens to every session, about $0.0041 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 2026-08-31.

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