AVS Vibe Developer Guide

AVS Idea to Design to Prototype Vibe Development Guide

Overview

**Why**: this guide is meant to enable the user to go from a raw AVS Idea to Design to Prototype (Code) in under 10 mins and learn more about how EigenLayer works along the way.

**Who**: this guide is written to serve a more technical developer audience that prefers [Vibe Coding](https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383?lang=en) with popular AI / LLM tools such as [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/claude-code/overview). Please note that EigenLayer is also working to release a web app experience to enable the same Idea to Prototype flow which will be released independently.

**Pre-requisites**:

• High level understanding of EigenLayer protocol, Autonomously Verifiable Services, and how building an AVS might add value to your Web3 project.
• Any high level idea you have for an AVS.
• Claude Code installed on your machine.

**Caveats:**

• Including Claude Code and Hello-World-AVS in order to deliver a useful MVP
• Excluding Slashing functionality until the AVS Eng team is able to add this functionality to the eigenlayer-middleware / ECDSAServiceManager repo dependency for Hello World.
• For these tools, please limit your idea and designs to focus on the scope of one Operator Set at at time.
• The files under the context folder will soon be replaced with an MCP server.

Instructions

Stage 0: Environment Setup

• Open a new terminal session.
• git clone a local copy of this repo and cd into the newly created avs-vibe-developer-guide folder.
• Run the following command to add the EigenLayer MCP Server to your local claude instance:

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