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Cardano Dev Skills

Getting started

Cardano Dev Skills works in three modes. Pick the one that matches your agent.

In any Claude Code session:

/plugin marketplace add easy1staking-com/cardano-dev-skills
/plugin install cardano-dev-skills@cardano-dev-skills

Installed once, active in every Claude Code session in any directory. Verify with:

/plugin list

Install the per-project directive

Even with the plugin installed globally, Claude sometimes answers Cardano questions from training data instead of consulting bundled skills and docs. Run the cardano-context skill once per project to install a durable directive:

/cardano-context

What it does:

  • Writes a version-tagged block into the project’s CLAUDE.md. Claude Code re-injects CLAUDE.md into every conversation turn, so the directive survives compaction and applies on every new session.
  • Tells Claude to treat training data as potentially stale for Cardano, to bias toward invoking cardano-dev-skills:* skills, to search bundled docs/sources/ before falling back on memory, and to cite what it used.
  • Commit CLAUDE.md and teammates inherit the directive on clone.
  • Re-running is safe: same version is a no-op; older versions are atomically replaced.

Codex / other agents

Terminal window
git clone https://github.com/easy1staking-com/cardano-dev-skills.git
cd your-project
ln -s ../cardano-dev-skills/skills .agents/skills

Standalone

Skills are pure Markdown — read skills/*/SKILL.md directly, or grep them.

First prompt

Once installed, ask the agent something concrete that should match a skill:

“Scaffold a new Cardano project with Aiken on-chain and Mesh SDK off-chain.”

You should see the agent invoke the scaffold-project skill. If it doesn’t, nudge explicitly:

“Use the scaffold-project skill from cardano-dev-skills.”

See How it works for the three context mechanisms and how to tell when one of them is doing the work.