cross-chain

cross-chain is a skill for Claude Code from stellar/stellar-dev-skill. It costs 198 tokens per session (2,229 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to moving assets and messages between Stellar and other blockchains. Stellar is a blockchain network, while a cross-chain rail is the method used to connect it to another network.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose between Circle CCTP V2, Axelar GMP, Axelar ITS, and NEAR Intents for Stellar interoperability work.
Why use it?
Different jobs need different connections: moving native USDC, calling another chain's contracts, sharing tokens, or swapping assets. The guide helps select the relevant method before implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the stellar-dev plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose between Circle CCTP V2, Axelar GMP, Axelar ITS, and NEAR Intents for Stellar interoperability work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stellar/stellar-dev-skill/cross-chain
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 stellar/stellar-dev-skill --skill cross-chain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stellar/stellar-dev-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install stellar-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 198 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,229 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00198 $0.02229
Opus 5.5 $0.00079 $0.00892
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00446
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00223

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c69248208e3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cross-chain 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 1mo 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/cross-chain/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cross-Chain on Stellar

Stellar connects to other blockchains over several production rails, each built for a different job. Picking the wrong rail wastes engineering effort; picking the right one is a routing decision, not a research project. This file routes; the deep dives live alongside it — read the file that matches the task:

You want to Use Where
Move native USDC between Stellar and an EVM chain or Solana (no wrapped assets, no liquidity pools) Circle CCTP V2 cctp.md
Move native USDT between Stellar and an EVM chain USDT0, a LayerZero OFT layerzero.md
Have a Stellar contract call a contract on another chain, or receive calls from one (arbitrary payloads) Axelar GMP or LayerZero OApp axelar.md, layerzero.md
Make a token — new or an existing Stellar asset — exist on multiple chains Axelar ITS or LayerZero OFT axelar.md, layerzero.md
Swap any asset cross-chain (BTC, ETH, SOL, … → XLM or Stellar USDC) without integrating a bridge yourself NEAR Intents below

Rules of thumb: if the asset is USDC and both ends are CCTP chains, CCTP is the cheapest and most direct (it burns and mints Circle-native USDC — nothing wrapped, nothing pooled). If the asset is USDT, the answer is USDT0 over LayerZero OFT — a different rail, and one whose shape changes per leg: Stellar burns and mints, while the Ethereum leg locks and unlocks canonical USDT through an OFT Adapter, so check the route's OFT mode before you describe the flow. If you need logic, not just value, on the far chain, that is message passing — two rails do it, and the comparison at the end of layerzero.md helps you pick between Axelar's shared validator security and LayerZero's app-configured DVN sets. If you control a token and want it multichain, that is ITS or OFT on the same split. If the user just wants "turn my X on chain A into Y on Stellar" and you don't want bridge plumbing at all, quote it through NEAR Intents.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +38 tokens per session c69248208e3a
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 62 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A 5d437e0e14cc

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cross-chain is a skill published in the GitHub repository stellar/stellar-dev-skill (54 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 198 tokens to every session and 2,229 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.