Does Discourse have AI development skills?

[Falco]

@qi_lu

I spent three days trying to develop a plugin using Claude 4.6, and it was still too difficult.

I wrote many Discourse plugins with Claude Code, and it is a breeze nowadays.

@qi_lu

So, I wonder if the official team will release some AI development specifications or guidelines?

Context is king, and you need to provide a proper context for it to work this means:

• Opening Claude Code at the Discourse root, even when working at a plugin. This allows Claude to check for patterns easily and locally.
• Have a proper local development setup, so tests can be ran, migrations, etc.
• Use plan mode often, write overall idea to a markdown file, clean context on new steps, etc.

@qi_lu

For example, agent skills, and tutorial documentation should be condensed into guidelines and instructions usable by AI

We are doing this already, see for example

AI-AGENTS.md

Skills are being developed and will be added to the repository as they are ready and tested.

Still, Vibe coding in an existing project isn’t completely free. Spending some time studying and getting familiar with your target is still a good idea.