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Create Adapter

by marcus

Create Adapter is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by marcus in sidecar.

1K stars79 forkson marcus/sidecarAdded 2026/08/21Repository updated 2026/08/21
agentic-aiagentic-workflowsclaude-codetui
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Install Create Adapter
Copy Create Adapter 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/marcus/sidecar/tree/main/.claude/skills/create-adapter ~/.claude/skills/create-adapter

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/marcus/sidecar.git

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

In this catalog

Source file
.claude/skills/create-adapter/SKILL.md in marcus/sidecar
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/create-adapter
Collection
One of 16 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering2451 skills

What Create Adapter does

Create Adapter covers building conversation adapters that import AI chat history from tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Warp, and Codex. Use it when creating or debugging an adapter’s parsing, caching, watch handling, or performance behavior.

Create Adapter is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Create Adapter comes from a repository tagged agentic-ai, agentic-workflows, claude-code and tui.

Documentation

README

Create Adapter

Why Performance Matters

Adapters are the largest performance risk in Sidecar. Conversations refresh on watch events in a hot path that runs continuously during active sessions:

watch event -> coalescer -> session refresh -> adapter.Sessions() -> metadata parsing

If an adapter does full directory scans and full-file reparses on every change, CPU and FD usage spike quickly.

Reference Adapters

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

Frequently asked about Create Adapter

  • What else does marcus publish alongside Create Adapter?

    Create Adapter is one of 16 skills that DirSkills catalogs from marcus/sidecar, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Create Modal, Create Plugin and Create Theme. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Create Adapter does, and is maintained by marcus in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the marcus/sidecar page.

  • How does Create Adapter compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Create Adapter ranks #1332 by stars among the 2451 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 Create Adapter against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

More from marcus/sidecar

Create Adapter is one of 16 skills cataloged on DirSkills from marcus/sidecar.

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