What is skills CLAUDE.md?

A set of instructions for working in the Pipecat AI skills repository, which contains reusable tools for building and deploying Pipecat applications.

Use it when adding or maintaining Claude Code skills, plugins, marketplace entries, or deployment-related guidance for Pipecat projects.

It explains how the repository is organised and how its plugins and skills are selected, so contributors know where changes belong.

How pipecat-ai/skills configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to pipecat-ai/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/pipecat-ai/skills/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pipecat-ai/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 484 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 484 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	$0.00484	$0.00484
Opus 5.5	$0.00194	$0.00194
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00097	$0.00097
Haiku 4.5	$0.00048	$0.00048

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 38f33359be3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 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 Claude Code plugin marketplace (pipecat-skills) containing skills for building and deploying Pipecat applications. Published at pipecat-ai/skills on GitHub.

Architecture

This repo follows the Claude Code plugin marketplace pattern (same as anthropics/skills):

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json — Marketplace manifest. Defines plugins that each select skills from the shared skills/ directory.
skills/<name>/SKILL.md — Each skill is a directory with a SKILL.md file containing frontmatter (name, description) and instructions that Claude follows when the skill is invoked.

Plugins

The marketplace exposes three plugins:

pipecat — General Pipecat development skills (e.g. init). Invoked as /pipecat:<skill>.
pipecat-cloud — Pipecat Cloud deployment skills (e.g. deploy). Invoked as /pipecat-cloud:<skill>.
pipecat-mcp-server — Pipecat MCP server skills (e.g. talk). Invoked as /pipecat-mcp-server:<skill>.

When adding a new skill, create skills/<name>/SKILL.md and add it to the appropriate plugin's skills array in marketplace.json.

Writing Skills

Skills are markdown files with instructions for Claude. Key conventions:

Use AskUserQuestion for choices with a small fixed set of options (2-4 choices like yes/no, bot type, pipeline mode).
For choices with many options (services, transports), show the full list as formatted text and let the user reply in chat.
Skills that wrap CLI tools should use non-interactive/automation flags rather than interactive prompts, since Claude can't interact with TTY prompts.
Use --list-options style discovery commands when available to avoid hardcoding values that change over time.

Installation (for end users)

/plugin marketplace add pipecat-ai/skills
/plugin install pipecat@pipecat-skills
/plugin install pipecat-cloud@pipecat-skills

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 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 · 42 lines · 484 tokens per session scan A 38f33359be3c

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skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository pipecat-ai/skills (28 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-2-Clause. It adds 484 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 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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skills: Instructions file for Claude Code