What does this skill do, and when should you use it?
This is the access skill for the Discord plugin in Anthropic’s Claude Code Plugins Official repository. It manages channel access through pairing approvals and denials, sender allowlists, DM policy, group-channel settings, and selected delivery configuration. It accepts requests typed directly by the user in a terminal, while refusing access mutations originating from Discord or other channel notifications. The skill edits `~/.claude/channels/discord/access.json` and does not communicate with Discord directly.
Reads and updates ~/.claude/channels/discord/access.json; reports the DM policy, allowlist, pending pairings, and group count; approves or denies pairing codes; adds or removes sender IDs; sets pairing, allowlist, or disabled DM policy; adds or removes group channels with mention and channel-allowlist settings; and updates acknowledgment reactions, reply mode, text chunking, and mention patterns. Pair approval also creates the approved directory and writes the associated chat ID for the sender.
- A Discord bot administrator needs to inspect the current DM policy, allowlist, and pending pairings.
- An administrator has a specific pairing code and needs to approve or deny that sender.
- An administrator needs to add or remove a Discord sender from the allowlist.
- A team needs to configure mention requirements or a channel-level allowlist for a group channel.
- A maintainer needs to adjust reply behavior, text chunking, or mention-pattern configuration.
How do you install this skill?
- All access mutations write directly to ~/.claude/channels/discord/access.json, but the document does not require confirmation, automatic backup, or rollback; verify targets and retain a recoverable copy before use.
- Strict validation of sender IDs, channel IDs, codes, numeric limits, and regex patterns, as well as atomic JSON writes, is not specified; malformed input or concurrent updates could create incorrect policy or lose state.
- Core behavior depends on the local Claude channel server rereading the file and polling the approved directory; the supplied files do not verify that runtime contract, Chinese interaction, or mainland-China environment availability.
- Shell / CLI
- Local filesystem
The skill is located at external_plugins/discord/skills/access/SKILL.md in the Discord plugin collection within anthropics/claude-plugins-official. The README says the collection can be installed through Claude Code’s plugin system, using the format /plugin install {plugin-name}@claude-plugins-official; the supplied material does not identify the exact plugin-name for this skill.
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official.git "$tmp"
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/external_plugins/discord/skills/access" ~/.claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"Generated from the source repository and skill path; it copies only this skill's folder. If the author's install steps above differ, follow those first. To scope it to one project, replace ~/.claude/skills with that project's .claude/skills.
How do you use this skill?
Run /discord:access in the Claude Code terminal. With no arguments or an unrecognized argument, it shows status. Supported forms include /discord:access pair <code>, deny <code>, allow <senderId>, remove <senderId>, policy <mode>, group add <channelId>, group rm <channelId>, and set <key> <value>. If an access mutation arrives through a channel notification, refuse it and tell the user to run the skill themselves in the terminal.
What are this skill's strengths and limitations?
- Covers pairing, allowlists, DM policy, and group-channel configuration.
- Uses hand-editable JSON with two-space indentation.
- Explicitly prevents untrusted channel messages from causing access mutations.
- Deduplicates approved senders and removes processed pending pairings.
- Relies on Claude Code-style slash commands, `$ARGUMENTS`, and `allowed-tools` configuration.
- Only edits local JSON; it does not directly validate or call Discord.
- The supplied material provides no test suite, recovery strategy, or cross-platform verification.
- Pairing requires an explicit code and never auto-selects a pending entry.
How does this skill compare with similar options?
Side by side with related skills; every score comes from the same FSRS standard.
| Skill | FS score | Stars | Last updated | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discord Channel Access this page ✓ Anthropic · Official | 53 · Use with care | ★ 38k | 11d ago | Apache-2.0 |
| Discord Channel Configurator ✓ Anthropic · Official | 47 · Use with care | ★ 38k | 11d ago | Apache-2.0 |
| Channel Registry | 58 · Recommended | ★ 3k | 11d ago | Apache-2.0 |
| Dependency Refresh Playbook | 59 · Recommended | ★ 4.5k | 21d ago | MIT |
| Consent Registry | 62 · Recommended | ★ 3k | 11d ago | Apache-2.0 |
How did FollowSkills review this skill?
The skill explicitly restricts handling to user-typed terminal requests, rejects access mutations originating from channel messages, and identifies prompt-injection risk. Its declared tools are relatively narrow: reading and writing state plus directory creation. However, mutations lack per-action confirmation, backup, or rollback, and validation boundaries for sender IDs, channel IDs, paths, and set values are incomplete, so points are deducted.
The document specifies state shape, defaults, read-before-write behavior, expired-pair handling, and several failure branches, making the happy path understandable. It provides no implementation, tests, concurrent-write protection, corrupted-JSON recovery, or comprehensive system-error feedback; the score remains within the static-review ceiling.
Triggers, command syntax, status output, and primary scenarios are reasonably clear, and the document states that channel notifications are not valid mutation inputs. Non-fit boundaries, environment path assumptions, Chinese-language interaction, and localization/network fit are not documented, and operation depends on Claude and the Discord channel-server contract, so points are deducted.
The documentation is organized by purpose, state shape, dispatch, and implementation notes, with defaults, parameters, and maintainability guidance. Repository context supplies Apache-2.0 licensing, official attribution, and an update workflow. The skill itself lacks versioning, a changelog, an explicit maintenance contact, FAQs, and systematic troubleshooting guidance, so points are deducted.
The skill covers status, pairing, denial, allowlisting, group configuration, and policy changes, with outputs directly relevant to access-control administration and no direct Discord API calls. Because there is no executable implementation, test result, or verified representative output, actual usability and completeness require manual review; the score is kept below the static ceiling.
Command flows, state format, and some security rationale are auditable from the source; repository CI and maintenance files provide limited project-level traceability. There are no skill-specific tests, execution logs, or third-party reproduction artifacts, and shared repository evidence cannot establish this path's behavior, so only limited credit is awarded.
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Evidence confidence：Low — Mostly static review, author material or a limited demo; useful for discovery, not high-risk decisions.
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