Claude Code Developer Portal Setup Guide

# From The Claude Code Playbook — claudecodeguides.com/playbook/


Developer portals in Claude Code serve as centralized hubs for managing skills, templates, and automation workflows. This guide walks through the process of setting up a functional developer portal tailored to your development needs.

Done right, a developer portal eliminates the friction of recreating context every session. Instead of typing long instructions every time you want Claude to follow your team's TDD conventions or generate code in your preferred style, you define those conventions once as skills, version them in a repository, and load them on demand. The portal is the infrastructure that makes that possible.

## Understanding Claude Code Skills Architecture

Claude Code uses a skill-based system stored in `~/.claude/skills/`. Each skill is a Markdown file containing instructions that Claude loads when you invoke it. The directory structure looks like this: