rhdh-plugin-authoring

rhdh-plugin-authoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from redhat-developer/rhdh-skills. It costs 159 tokens per session (1,299 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A development guide for creating or changing Red Hat Developer Hub plugins, which extend the product with backend or frontend features. It covers plugins built in Backstage-based repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scaffold or implement frontend and backend dynamic plugins, inspect the target repository, and build features with its established Backstage and RHDH conventions.
Why use it?
It provides repository-aware instructions for choosing the plugin type, checking versions, following local rules, and meeting build requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the plugins plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to scaffold or implement frontend and backend dynamic plugins, inspect the target repository, and build features with its established Backstage and RHDH conventions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/redhat-developer/rhdh-skills/rhdh-plugin-authoring
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add redhat-developer/rhdh-skills --skill rhdh-plugin-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redhat-developer/rhdh-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install plugins, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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Per session 159 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,299 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 $0.00159 $0.01299
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.00649
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00130

Measured 7d ago against content hash 29e75c407fa3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rhdh-plugin-authoring 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/detect-rhdh-context.py, scripts/scaffold.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/plugins/rhdh-plugin-authoring/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RHDH Plugin Authoring

Own plugin source code: creating a new Backstage dynamic plugin for RHDH and implementing features inside an existing one. Backend and frontend are branches of the same job — the same conventions, the same build gates, the same repo — so choose the branch from the request rather than asking for a skill.

Start here

  1. Read the target repository's AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md and any linked specification or issue. Repository rules beat anything written here.
  2. Run python scripts/detect-rhdh-context.py --path <plugin-or-workspace> in an existing checkout. Record role, frontend system, plugin ID, dynamic status, MUI version, and package manager.
  3. Establish the target RHDH and Backstage versions. Prefer an explicit user or repository value; otherwise invoke /rhdh-context for repository, tool, and version facts. If it is unavailable, ask the user instead of guessing.
  4. Inspect branch and status before modifying files, and protect uncommitted work.

For a new plugin or a change to a public API where materially different designs are valid and the request does not settle the choice, invoke /grilling as a design gate, use the constraints it produces, and show the design before implementing. If /grilling is not installed, say so, name /setup-rhdh-skills install as the human's next step, and pause that branch.

Route by outcome

Outcome Load and follow
Scaffold a backend dynamic plugin references/backend.md; run scripts/scaffold.py
Scaffold a frontend dynamic plugin references/frontend.md; run scripts/scaffold.py
Decide what kind of extension to build references/plugin-types.md
Implement or review plugin code references/development-patterns.md, then only the relevant reference below
Style with Backstage UI or MUI references/bui.md
Write NFS code in a new plugin references/nfs.md
Apply RHDH-specific patterns references/rhdh.md
Run or extend the plugin dev app references/dev-app.md
Write tests for plugin code references/testing.md
Write or read a frontend feature spec references/frontend-specs.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 106 lines · 159 tokens per session scan A 29e75c407fa3

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rhdh-plugin-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository redhat-developer/rhdh-skills (16 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 159 tokens to every session and 1,299 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.

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