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Claude Skill Decky Plugin Dev — Design skill for Claude Code

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Claude Code skill with hard-won fixes for Decky Loader (Steam Deck) plugin development — the RPC bridge between JS and Python, @decky/ui component quirks, the frozen Python 3.11 runtime, reading Steam.

How to install Claude Skill Decky Plugin Dev

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open btd1337/claude-skill-decky-plugin-dev and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claude Skill Decky Plugin Dev does

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README

claude-skill-decky-plugin-dev

Claude Code skill with hard-won fixes for Decky Loader (Steam Deck) plugin development — the RPC bridge between JS and Python, `@decky/ui` component quirks, the frozen Python 3.11 runtime, reading Steam's local data files, and CI/release pitfalls.

What's in here

SKILL.md — quick-diagnosis table mapping common symptoms ("my change had no visible effect", "the backend isn't receiving this field") to their known cause and fix.
references/ — the deeper detail behind each topic:
- rpc-bridge.md — how call() maps to Python method params, and payload-nesting bugs
- python-runtime.md — vendoring deps, the frozen Python 3.11 runtime, stdlib shims, aiohttp SSL
- steam-data.md — localconfig.vdf/shortcuts.vdf, the non-Steam appid sign flip, app-type detection
- decky-ui-quirks.md — @decky/ui component behaviors that don't match naive expectations
- ci-release.md — GitHub Actions/pnpm pitfalls and the stable-download-alias pattern

Installing

Drop this repo's contents into your Claude Code personal skills directory:

git clone https://github.com/btd1337/claude-skill-decky-plugin-dev.git ~/.claude/skills/decky-plugin-dev

Claude Code picks up skills from `~/.claude/skills/` automatically — no further setup needed. The skill triggers when you're working on a Decky Loader plugin and hit one of the symptoms it covers.