M5 Onboard

by anthropics

M5 Onboard is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by anthropics in claude-plugins-official.

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Install M5 Onboard

Copy M5 Onboard 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/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/tree/main/plugins/cwc-makers/skills/m5-onboard ~/.claude/skills/m5-onboard

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/anthropics/claude-plugins-official.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/cwc-makers/skills/m5-onboard/SKILL.md in anthropics/claude-plugins-official
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/m5-onboard
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What M5 Onboard does

M5 Onboard detects an M5Stack ESP32 device over USB, flashes UIFlow 2.0 firmware, and installs the Claude Buddy MicroPython app bundle. Use it when provisioning, flashing, or resetting an M5Stack or ESP32 board.

M5 Onboard is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. M5 Onboard comes from a repository tagged claude-code, mcp and skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

M5Stack Onboarding

This skill automates the full cold-start workflow for an M5Stack ESP32 device: detect on USB, identify model, flash UIFlow 2.0, and push a MicroPython app bundle onto /flash/ so the device boots into user software. The apps we ship (Claude Buddy, Snake, Hello) talk over BLE or USB. The workflow runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows; the skill was developed against an M5Stack Basic v2.6 (CH9102 bridge, ESP32-D0WDQ6-V3, 16 MB flash) and generalized to cover the rest of the Core family, with the Cardputer-Adv (ESP32-S3, native USB) as the current default target.

Where the scripts live

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

Commands M5 Onboard provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/maker-setup

Frequently asked about M5 Onboard

What else does anthropics publish alongside M5 Onboard?
M5 Onboard is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from anthropics/claude-plugins-official, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Development, Build MCP App and Build MCP Server. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way M5 Onboard does, and is maintained by anthropics in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the anthropics/claude-plugins-official page.
How does M5 Onboard compare to other Automation skills?
M5 Onboard ranks #55 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 M5 Onboard against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.