EmDash Plugin Development

by emdash-cms

EmDash Plugin Development is a Frontend skill for Claude Code, published by emdash-cms in emdash.

11.6K stars1.1K forkson emdash-cms/emdashAdded 2026/07/19Repository updated 2026/08/06

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Install EmDash Plugin Development

Copy EmDash Plugin Development 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/emdash-cms/emdash/tree/main/templates/blog/.agents/skills/creating-plugins ~/.claude/skills/creating-plugins

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/emdash-cms/emdash.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: templates/blog/.agents/skills/creating-plugins/SKILL.md in emdash-cms/emdash
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/creating-plugins
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Frontend — 732 skills

What EmDash Plugin Development does

Create EmDash CMS plugins with hooks, storage, settings, admin UI, API routes, and Portable Text block types. Use when building, scaffolding, or implementing EmDash plugins, including custom block types, admin pages, or content hooks.

EmDash Plugin Development is cataloged under Frontend on DirSkills. EmDash Plugin Development comes from a repository tagged astro, cms, emdash and typescript.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Creating EmDash Plugins

EmDash plugins extend the CMS with hooks, storage, settings, admin UI, API routes, and custom Portable Text block types. All plugins are TypeScript packages.

Plugin Types

EmDash has two plugin formats:

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

Frequently asked about EmDash Plugin Development

What else does emdash-cms publish alongside EmDash Plugin Development?
EmDash Plugin Development is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from emdash-cms/emdash, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API & CLI Bug Reproduction, Adversarial Code Reviewer and Agent Browser. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way EmDash Plugin Development does, and is maintained by emdash-cms in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the emdash-cms/emdash page.
How does EmDash Plugin Development compare to other Frontend skills?
EmDash Plugin Development ranks #83 by stars among the 732 Frontend skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Angular Developer, Android Clean Architecture and Accessibility. 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 EmDash Plugin Development against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.