Building With Medusa

by medusajs

Building With Medusa is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by medusajs in medusa-agent-skills.

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Install Building With Medusa

Copy Building With Medusa into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/medusajs/medusa-agent-skills/tree/main/plugins/medusa-dev/skills/building-with-medusa ~/.claude/skills/building-with-medusa

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/medusajs/medusa-agent-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/medusa-dev/skills/building-with-medusa/SKILL.md in medusajs/medusa-agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/building-with-medusa
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2970 skills

What Building With Medusa does

Building With Medusa guides Medusa backend work for custom modules, workflows, API routes, links, and business logic. Use it when planning or implementing backend features that need Medusa-specific architecture and rules.

Building With Medusa is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Building With Medusa comes from a repository tagged agentic-commerce, claude, claude-code, commerce and ecommerce.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Medusa Backend Development

Comprehensive backend development guide for Medusa applications. Contains patterns across 6 categories covering architecture, type safety, business logic placement, and common pitfalls.

When to Apply

Load this skill for ANY backend development task, including:

Creating or modifying custom modules and data models
Implementing workflows for mutations
Building API routes (store or admin)
Defining module links between entities
Writing business logic or validation
Querying data across modules
Implementing authentication/authorization

Also load these skills when:

building-admin-dashboard-customizations: Building admin UI (widgets, pages, forms)
building-storefronts: Calling backend API routes from storefronts (SDK integration)

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Building With Medusa

What else does medusajs publish alongside Building With Medusa?
Building With Medusa is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from medusajs/medusa-agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Building Storefronts, Cloud Logs and Cloud Organizations. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Building With Medusa does, and is maintained by medusajs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the medusajs/medusa-agent-skills page.
How does Building With Medusa compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Building With Medusa ranks #2659 by stars among the 2970 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Building With Medusa against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.