ai-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ai-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from rikdc/ai-skills. It costs 2,157 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MPL-2.0.

Project instructions for an AI Skills repository, a collection of installable add-ons for Claude Code. They describe its marketplace layout, included add-ons, folders, and important commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Maintaining the add-on marketplace, working on its security hooks and development tools, and using the repository's documented commands.
Why use it?
They give the agent the repository context needed to work in the correct folders and understand how the add-ons are organised.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to rikdc/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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rikdc/ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Grade A, and why

ai-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 6d ago.

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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 · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 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.

Project Overview

This is the AI Skills project, which provides security hooks and testing infrastructure for Claude Code projects. The main features are:

  1. Security scanning to prevent sensitive data from being sent to external MCP services
  2. Branch protection to enforce PR-based workflows by preventing direct edits to protected branches (main, master, production, release)

Marketplace Structure

The repository is organized as a marketplace with 10 installable plugins:

  • security-hooks: MCP security scanner and protected branch hooks
  • dev-skills: Expert skills for Go, documentation, and architecture
  • git-workflow: Git automation for commits, PRs, and changelog
  • pm-tools: Project management commands for PRDs and tasks
  • code-quality: Code quality analysis, review, and cleanup
  • prompt-tools: AI prompt generation and review tools
  • pr-review-triage: Triage of PR review comments and follow-up tracking
  • forgejo-review: Advisory Forgejo pull-request review workflow
  • nix-skills: Expert guidance on Nix, NixOS, and home-manager
  • eval-workflow: Eval scenario generation and offline verification

Directory Structure

  • plugins/: Marketplace plugin distribution (for users to install individual plugins)
  • .claude/: Local development structure (for contributors working on the codebase)

Key Commands

All project operations are managed through the Makefile:

make test               # Run complete test suite
make lint               # Run ShellCheck on all shell scripts
make install            # Install hooks (make scanner script executable)
make sync-codex-skills  # Sync .codex/skills symlinks with plugins/*/skills
make clean              # Remove test artifacts and logs
make status             # Show current status and configuration
make check-tools        # Check for required and optional security tools
make help               # Display all available commands

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 lines

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ai-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rikdc/ai-skills (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 2,157 tokens to every session, about $0.0086 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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