ably-cli: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/ably-new-command/SKILL.md

ably-new-command is a skill for Claude Code from ably/ably-cli. It costs 107 tokens per session (7,523 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for adding commands to the Ably command-line tool, which lets developers work with real-time messaging services from a terminal. It covers command patterns, tests, command files, and the clients each command should use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating or migrating Ably CLI commands and subcommands, including their TypeScript test files.
Why use it?
It prevents new commands from breaking the CLI’s established structure. It also helps developers choose the right approach for sending messages, listening for events, listing resources, or reading history.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is ably/ably-cli's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ably-cli 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 ably-cli configures →

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is import { AblyBaseCommand } from "../../base-command.js";.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ably/ably-cli. 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/ably/ably-cli/main/.claude/skills/ably-new-command/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ably/ably-cli

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,523 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00107 $0.07523
Opus 5.5 $0.00043 $0.03009
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.01505
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00752

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 265d9f901fdc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ably-new-command 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/skills/ably-new-command/SKILL.md · 489 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 489 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ably CLI New Command

This skill helps you create new commands for the Ably CLI, including the command file, test file, and any needed index/topic files. The Ably CLI is built on oclif (TypeScript) and has strict conventions that every command must follow.

Step 1: Identify the command pattern

Every command in this CLI falls into one of these patterns. Pick the right one based on what the command does:

Pattern When to use Base class Client Example
Subscribe Long-running event listener AblyBaseCommand Realtime channels subscribe, rooms messages subscribe
Publish/Send Send messages AblyBaseCommand REST or Realtime channels publish, rooms messages send
History Query past messages/events AblyBaseCommand REST channels history, rooms messages history
Get One-shot query for current state AblyBaseCommand REST channels occupancy get, rooms occupancy get
List Enumerate resources via REST API AblyBaseCommand REST channels list, rooms list
Enter Join presence/space then optionally listen AblyBaseCommand Realtime channels presence enter, spaces members enter
REST Mutation One-shot REST mutation (no subscription) AblyBaseCommand REST rooms messages update, rooms messages delete
CRUD Create/read/update/delete via Control API ControlBaseCommand Control API (HTTP) integrations create, queues delete

Specialized base classes — some command groups have dedicated base classes that handle common setup (client lifecycle, cleanup, shared flags):

Pattern Base class When to use Source
Chat commands ChatBaseCommand rooms messages, rooms reactions, rooms typing, rooms occupancy src/chat-base-command.ts
Spaces commands SpacesBaseCommand spaces members, spaces locks, spaces cursors, spaces locations src/spaces-base-command.ts
Stats commands StatsBaseCommand stats app, stats account src/stats-base-command.ts

Read the full file on GitHub · 489 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 489 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 265d9f901fdc

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ably-new-command is a skill published in the GitHub repository ably/ably-cli (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 7,523 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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