A development guide for Solana, a blockchain platform, covering its applications, on-chain programs, wallets, transactions, testing, deployment, and common setup problems.

Use it to build Solana applications, write Anchor or Pinocchio programs, create tokens, connect wallets, test code, deploy to devnet, and explain Solana concepts.

It gives developers direction across the many parts of building and maintaining Solana software, including version and dependency issues.

solana-dev — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by Shiven0504

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 Shiven0504/claude-skills-collection --skill solana-dev

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Shiven0504/claude-skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 178 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,019 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00178	$0.02019
Opus 5.5	$0.00071	$0.00808
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00036	$0.00404
Haiku 4.5	$0.00018	$0.00202

Measured 2mo ago against content hash c673bf5bc184, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

solana-dev 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.

skills/custom/solana-dev/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Solana Development Skill (framework-kit-first)

What this Skill is for

Use this Skill when the user asks for:

Solana dApp UI work (React / Next.js)
Wallet connection + signing flows
Transaction building / sending / confirmation UX
On-chain program development (Anchor or Pinocchio)
Client SDK generation (typed program clients)
Local testing (LiteSVM, Mollusk, Surfpool)
Security hardening and audit-style reviews
Confidential transfers (Token-2022 ZK extension)
Toolchain setup, version mismatches, GLIBC errors, dependency conflicts
Upgrading Anchor/Solana CLI versions, migration between versions

Default stack decisions (opinionated)

UI: framework-kit first

Use @solana/client + @solana/react-hooks.
Prefer Wallet Standard discovery/connect via the framework-kit client.

SDK: @solana/kit first

Start with createClient / createLocalClient from @solana/kit-client-rpc for RPC + transaction sending.
Use @solana-program/* program plugins (e.g., tokenProgram()) for fluent instruction APIs.
Prefer Kit types (Address, Signer, transaction message APIs, codecs).

Legacy compatibility: web3.js only at boundaries

If you must integrate a library that expects web3.js objects (PublicKey, Transaction, Connection), use @solana/web3-compat as the boundary adapter.
Do not let web3.js types leak across the entire app; contain them to adapter modules.

Programs

Default: Anchor (fast iteration, IDL generation, mature tooling).
Performance/footprint: Pinocchio when you need CU optimization, minimal binary size, zero dependencies, or fine-grained control over parsing/allocations.

Testing

Default: LiteSVM or Mollusk for unit tests (fast feedback, runs in-process).
Use Surfpool for integration tests against realistic cluster state (mainnet/devnet) locally.
Use solana-test-validator only when you need specific RPC behaviors not emulated by LiteSVM.

Agent safety guardrails

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 lines

Files

What ships with it

26 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.

2mo ago First seen · 159 lines · 178 tokens per session scan A c673bf5bc184

Subscribe to this mod's changes

solana-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository Shiven0504/claude-skills-collection (6 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 178 tokens to every session and 2,019 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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