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Sam's Claude Skills

A collection of Claude Code skills and plugins for cross-repo workflows.

Installation

Add this marketplace to Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add <github-user>/claude-skills

Then install a plugin:

/plugin install starter@sam-claude-skills

Structure

.claude-plugin/
  marketplace.json          # Registry manifest
plugins/
  <plugin-name>/
    .claude-plugin/
      plugin.json           # Plugin metadata
    skills/
      <skill-name>/
        SKILL.md            # Skill definition

Creating a New Skill

1. Create a directory under plugins/<plugin-name>/skills/<skill-name>/
2. Add a SKILL.md with frontmatter (name, description) and instructions
3. If it's a new plugin, add a plugin.json and register it in marketplace.json

SKILL.md Frontmatter Reference

Field	Description
name	Becomes the /slash-command
description	Triggers auto-invocation; shown in /help
allowed-tools	Restrict which tools Claude can use
disable-model-invocation	Set true to prevent auto-invocation
user-invocable	Set false to hide from user menu
context	Set fork to run in isolated subagent
argument-hint	Autocomplete hint (e.g., [filename])

License

MIT