skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from sinch/skills. It costs 921 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A repository-specific guide for official Sinch API skills, which help AI coding agents work with Sinch communication products. It defines the folder layout and the required sections for each product guide.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or updating a Sinch product skill, including its main guide, helper scripts, reference material, assets, and product-specific configuration.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to document setup, common usage, limitations, and links for each Sinch product. This prevents new skills from missing required files or useful guidance.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sinch/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/sinch/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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CLAUDE.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 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 using the Sinch skills in this repository to build against Sinch APIs. The full usage guide, including the task-to-skill routing table, is AGENTS.md. To create or edit skills, follow CONTRIBUTING.md.

Repository Purpose

Official Sinch API skills for AI coding agents. Each skills/<product>/SKILL.md is a self-contained brief for one Sinch product: authentication, first API call, domain model, common patterns, gotchas, and links to the canonical documentation. Skills are installed via npx skills add sinch/skills and are listed on https://skills.sh/.

Working With a Skill

  1. Pick the product skill whose description matches the request. Use the routing table in AGENTS.md. Load the smallest set of skills that owns the behavior; the product skill says which supporting skills to load and when.
  2. Read the skill's Agent Instructions section before writing code. It holds the binding policy digest, what to infer versus ask, and which other skills to load.
  3. Read references/shared-policy.md once per conversation. Skip further copies with the same ID, version, and fingerprint.
  4. Check the Overview for version scope. For example, sinch-voice-api covers Voice API v1 only; the preview Voice API v2 is covered by sinch-voice-api-v2.
  5. Follow Getting Started and Common Patterns for the implementation, and Gotchas and Security before finishing.

Rules That Change What You Do

  • Fetch before you state. Endpoint paths, methods, field names, enums, limits, webhook payloads, and SDK signatures must come from the canonical document fetched in the current session, linked from the skill's Links section. Bundled references/, scripts/, and examples are illustrations, never schema authority.
  • Never guess a docs URL. If a fetch fails, re-search already fetched documents, consult https://developers.sinch.com/llms.txt, follow first-party links, retry once, then stop and say so.
  • Approval to write code is not approval to run it. Classify each operation as read-only, reversible, billable, or destructive. Ask before billable or destructive calls such as sending messages, placing calls, or renting numbers.
  • Bound every loop. Polling and retries need backoff, jitter, and a hard cap. Report a timeout as unknown, not as failure.
  • Report verification levels separately. Lint, unit, mock contract, sandbox, live, end-to-end. Say which you did not run. An HTTP 2xx does not prove delivery.
  • If a required skill is missing, name it and stop rather than improvising its content.

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skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sinch/skills (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 921 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 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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