Drupal Development Skills for Claude Code

Comprehensive Drupal development skills for Claude Code, organized by specialization. Choose the skills you need for front-end development, back-end development, or development tooling for Drupal 8-11+.

Quick Start

Install from Marketplace

If this repository is hosted on GitHub or another git service:

# Add this marketplace
/plugin marketplace add Omedia/drupal-skill

# Install all three skills
/plugin install drupal-frontend
/plugin install drupal-backend
/plugin install drupal-tooling

# Or install just what you need
/plugin install drupal-frontend  # For theme development
/plugin install drupal-backend   # For module development

Install from Local Repository

For local development or testing:

# Add local marketplace
/plugin marketplace add /path/to/drupal-skill

# Install skills
/plugin install drupal-frontend
/plugin install drupal-backend
/plugin install drupal-tooling

Available Skills

drupal-frontend - Front End Specialist

Theme development, Twig templates, and Drupal’s rendering system.

Features:

• Theme structure and configuration
• Twig templating syntax and filters
• Template suggestions and debugging
• Preprocessing functions
• CSS/JS library management
• Responsive design and breakpoints
• Accessibility best practices

Use when:

• Creating or customizing Drupal themes
• Working with Twig templates
• Implementing preprocessing functions
• Managing CSS/JS assets
• Building responsive, accessible designs

Includes:

• Complete theming reference (theming.md)
• Theme template scaffold
• Twig examples and patterns

drupal-backend - Back End Specialist

Custom module development, hooks, APIs, and PHP programming.

Features:

• Custom module development
• Drupal hooks system
• Controllers and routing
• Forms API (configuration and custom)
• Entity API operations
• Plugin system (blocks, fields, etc.)
• Services and dependency injection
• Database operations

Use when:

• Building custom modules
• Implementing hooks
• Working with entities, forms, or plugins
• Creating custom controllers or services
• Database operations and queries

Includes:

• Hooks reference with examples (hooks.md)
• Module structure patterns (module_structure.md)
• Module template scaffold

drupal-tooling - Development Tools

Development environment and command-line tools

DDEV Docker environments and Drush command-line operations.

Features:

• DDEV project setup and management
• Database import/export and snapshots
• Drush cache, configuration, and module commands
• Deployment workflows
• User management and debugging
• Performance optimization

Use when:

• Setting up local development environments
• Managing databases and configuration
• Running Drush commands
• Deploying configuration changes
• Debugging and troubleshooting

Includes:

• Complete DDEV reference (ddev.md)
• Complete Drush reference (drush.md)