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Alaister YoungandAlaister Young 4b24cf028a chore(claude): improve CLAUDE.md files and skill triggering (#48261)
Improves the repo's agent guidance: distills the always-required
`studio-best-practices` skill into `apps/studio/CLAUDE.md`, tunes every
skill description for reliable triggering, and mechanically enforces the
generated-files rule. Grounded in Anthropic's official CLAUDE.md
guidance (see justifications below).

## The main change: Studio CLAUDE.md gets a Code style section

**Why:** `studio-best-practices` was a skill that instructed agents to
*always* load it before any Studio code work. Anthropic's guidance draws
the line as: sometimes-relevant guidance → skill (loaded on demand);
always-relevant guidance → CLAUDE.md. A skill that must always load has
failed the test for being a skill — it costs a tool-call round trip and,
worse, silently does nothing in sessions that forget to load it. Since
`apps/studio/CLAUDE.md` is lazy-loaded only when an agent touches Studio
files, inlining is properly scoped: non-Studio sessions never pay for
it.

**Why not verbatim:** the skill was 175 lines, mostly ❌/✅ worked
examples teaching practices models already know. Inlining it whole would
push the file past the ~200-line point where Anthropic warns rules start
getting lost. Instead each section was distilled to the rule it exists
to enforce — e.g. the loading/error/success section kept its code block
because the *shape* (early returns at top level, flat `&&` chains
inline) is the prescription, and prose loses it.

**The framing that makes the generic rules earn their place:** models
default to matching surrounding code, and not all existing Studio code
follows these practices. The section opens with "older Studio code
predates some of these conventions — follow them rather than mirroring
nearby legacy patterns," which converts otherwise-redundant React advice
into an explicit instruction to break from local precedent. One rule was
added that the old skill lacked: `useEffect` is for external-system sync
only (~364 Studio files contain effects, many in patterns we don't want
copied).

**Changed:**
- `apps/studio/CLAUDE.md` — new Code style section (84 lines total,
within budget); skills table no longer mandates a pre-load
- `.claude/CLAUDE.md` — dropped `pnpm install` from commands (guessable;
Anthropic's test: "would removing this cause mistakes?")

**Removed:**
- `.claude/skills/studio-best-practices/` — fully absorbed; its
cross-references to other skills were already covered by the skills
routing table

## Skill description tuning

Descriptions are the only signal an agent sees before deciding to load a
skill, and the observed failure mode is under-triggering on tasks that
don't name the skill. Nine descriptions reworded: front-loaded matchable
keywords, added incidental-trigger cases (e.g. a new feature that adds
copy is a `copywriting` moment), and disambiguated overlaps (`vitest` is
now the API reference deferring to `studio-testing` for strategy). The
`safe-sql-execution` rewrite was additionally validated with
skill-creator's trigger-eval loop against 20 realistic queries: held-out
test accuracy 54% → 71%, with zero false triggers across all iterations.
(`vitest` shows under `.agents/` because `.claude/skills/vitest`
symlinks there.)

## Generated-files enforcement

**Added:** `permissions.deny` rules in `.claude/settings.json` for the
six generated-file globs the root CLAUDE.md already lists. CLAUDE.md
prose is advisory; permission rules are mechanical and also gate
sandboxed Bash writes. (Verified live: the rule blocked an unintended
regeneration of `database-types.ts` during testing.)

## To test

- CI: prettier + typos checks pass (docs-only + settings change, no app
code)
- In a fresh Claude Code session in the repo: ask it to edit
`apps/studio/routeTree.gen.ts` — should be denied by the new permission
rule
- Ask it to do any Studio UI task — it should pick up the Code style
rules from `apps/studio/CLAUDE.md` without loading a best-practices
skill

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Updated development guidance for testing, copywriting, SQL safety,
telemetry, queries, error handling, and toolbar reviews.
* Restructured Vitest references into clearer tables and improved
formatting across several guides.
* Added Studio code-style conventions and clarified when task-specific
guidance should be applied.
  * Removed outdated Studio best-practices guidance.

* **Chores**
  * Added safeguards preventing edits to generated and protected files.
  * Simplified the documented development command sequence.

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Co-authored-by: Alaister Young <10985857+alaister@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-24 11:58:49 +08:00
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2025-12-03 15:39:54 +08:00

Supabase Studio

A dashboard for managing your self-hosted Supabase project, and used on our hosted platform. Built with:

What's included

Studio is designed to work with existing deployments - either the local hosted, docker setup, or our CLI. It is not intended for managing the deployment and administration of projects - that's out of scope.

As such, the features exposed on Studio for existing deployments are limited to those which manage your database:

  • Table & SQL editors
    • Saved queries are unavailable
  • Database management
    • Policies, roles, extensions, replication
  • API documentation

Managing Project Settings

Project settings are managed outside of the Dashboard. If you use docker compose, you should manage the settings in your docker-compose file. If you're deploying Supabase to your own cloud, you should store your secrets and env vars in a vault or secrets manager.

How to contribute?

  • Branch from master and name your branches with the following structure
    • {type}/{branch_name}
      • Type: chore | fix | feature
      • The branch name is arbitrary — just make sure it summarizes the work.
  • When you send a PR to master, it will automatically tag members of the frontend team for review.
  • Review the contributing checklists to help test your feature before sending a PR.
  • The Dashboard is under active development. You should run git pull frequently to make sure you're up to date.

Developer Quickstart

Note

Supabase internal use: To develop on Studio locally with the backend services, see the instructions in the internal infrastructure repo.

# You'll need to be on Node v20
# in /studio

## For external contributors
pnpm install # install dependencies
pnpm run dev # start dev server

## For internal contributors
## First clone the private supabase/platform repo and follow instructions for setting up mise
mise studio  # Run from supabase/platform alongside `mise infra`

## For all
pnpm run test # run tests
pnpm run test -- --watch # run tests in watch mode

Running within a self-hosted environment

Follow the self-hosting guide to get started.

cd ..
cd docker
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f ./dev/docker-compose.dev.yml up

Once you've got that set up, update .env in the studio folder with the corresponding values.

POSTGRES_PASSWORD=
SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=
SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY=

Then run the following commands to install dependencies and start the dashboard.

npm install
npm run dev

If you would like to configure different defaults for "Default Organization" and "Default Project", you will need to update the .env in the studio folder with the corresponding values.

DEFAULT_ORGANIZATION_NAME=
DEFAULT_PROJECT_NAME=