How I setup vscode for developing with Claude skill

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For those starting out with claude for development, or new to skills, the best way I have found is to use a multi repo project in vscode so it can work across multiple repos in one session, which at a minimum is your plugin plus the skill.

I have an indigo cwd (claude working directory) and then subfolders for my plugins which are each GitHub repos and one for the skill, also a GitHub repo.
I have a claude.md in the indigo folder, describing the folder structure and that this is a development for Indigo plugins and then individual claude.md files in each plugin folder.

You dont need the skill setup this way, as it can create the skill on the downloaded skill files anywhere, but this way, if as you are developing your plugin you realise that documentation is missing you can just ask Claude to update the skill documentation, using the new information you have given it.
I tend to ask it to update the skill, ensuring it keeps it efficient as a skill, and then when its added, ask it again to review the whole skill structure to make sure it is structured well for easy discovery of the information without clogging up the context memory.

And of course if you make changes and it makes the skill better, please create a PR to update GitHub for all to use.

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