moodle-dev

moodle-dev

The most complete Moodle development toolkit for AI coding assistants — skills, slash commands, and subagents that turn your assistant into a Moodle expert. Native plugin for Claude Code; ships with adapters for Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Aider, Continue, and a paste-anywhere bundle.

Scaffolds plugins, writes XMLDB upgrades, audits privacy/security, generates PHPUnit + Behat tests, builds AMD modules, reviews PRs — all following official Moodle coding standards (PSR-4, frankenstyle, MOODLE_INTERNAL, GPL headers, get_string, $DB).

🔌 Companion MCP server: moodle-mcp — live moodledev.io documentation search inside Claude Desktop / Code, Cursor, Continue, Cline. pipx install moodle-mcp.

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Why this plugin

Claude already knows PHP. It does not know:

• Moodle's frankenstyle conventions (local_<name>, mod_<name>, block_<name>, ...)
• XMLDB editor workflow + upgrade_plugin_savepoint rules
• Privacy API contracts (null_provider vs request\plugin\provider)
• Capability + sesskey + require_login security pattern
• Moodle 4.4+ Hooks API vs legacy lib.php callbacks
• pluginfile.php file-serving callback
• Behat + PHPUnit Moodle harness (resetAfterTest, generators, tags)
• AMD/RequireJS + grunt build
• Mobile app remote templates + get_remote_addons

This plugin teaches Claude all of it. Auto-activates when Claude detects Moodle work.

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Install

Claude Code (native plugin)

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/SaadRahman01/claude-moodle-dev
/plugin install moodle-dev@moodle-dev

(If git@github.com SSH auth fails, use the full https:// URL as shown above.)

Local dev: /plugin marketplace add /absolute/path/to/claude-moodle-dev. Verify: /plugin list.

One-liner installer (any non-Claude assistant)

./install.sh <cursor|copilot|aider|continue|generic> [--dest <path>]

Defaults to current directory. Or copy manually as below.

Cursor

Copy adapters/cursor/.cursor/ into your project (or ~/.cursor/ for global use). Each skill becomes an on-demand rule; agents and commands surface via @<name> mentions in chat.

GitHub Copilot

Copy adapters/copilot/.github/ into your repo. copilot-instructions.md is applied to every chat in the repo; per-skill chatmodes appear in the chat-mode picker.

Aider

Drop adapters/aider/CONVENTIONS.md into your project root and add it to .aider.conf.yml:

read:
  - CONVENTIONS.md

Load individual skills on demand with /read-only adapters/aider/skills/<name>.md.

Continue.dev

Copy adapters/continue/ into ~/.continue/ (merge with existing config.yaml). Skills load as rules; commands appear as slash prompts.

Any other assistant

Paste relevant sections from adapters/generic/PROMPTS.md — it's one self-contained markdown file with every skill, agent, and command. Works with anything that takes a system prompt.

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Companion MCP server: live Moodle docs

moodle-mcp is a separate Model Context Protocol server that gives any MCP-capable client (Claude Desktop / Code, Cursor, Continue, Cline, Windsurf) live access to the canonical Moodle developer documentation. The skills here teach conventions; the MCP server provides authoritative lookups.

What it adds