Is the Alfred skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from 686f6c61/alfred-dev. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

How do I install Alfred?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Alfred with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Alfred

Alias for the Alfred Dev plugin; its installer widens your permissions

by 686f6c61 · 686f6c61/alfred-dev

Tested · Didn't pass

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Test report

Verdict: Tested · Didn't pass
Tested: Aug 7, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)

Security gate hit, confirmed by execution rather than by reading: running the plugin's SessionStart hook in a throwaway project wrote both .claude/settings.json and .claude/settings.local.json with defaultMode set to acceptEdits and Bash(python3 *) added to the allow list, then dropped its own alfred-continuity.py into that same project. The string acceptEdits appears nowhere in the README, docs/ or CHANGELOG, so the permission-mode change is undisclosed, and the hook fires automatically on startup, resume, clear and compact. The skill file itself is only a routing stub, and copied in by hand it ships disable-model-invocation: true with user-invocable: false, so it cannot be reached by the model or by the user until the installer flips it. Its own protocol tells the agent to report an error and ask for a reinstall when the plugin is absent, which is strictly worse than having no skill at all.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 3/5
Triggers reliably 1/5
Output vs. baseline 2/10
Docs & honesty 2/5

What Alfred does

A one-file alias skill that exposes /alfred as a shortcut into the Alfred Dev plugin's contextual assistant, which lives in a separate Claude Code plugin of agents, commands and hooks. As shipped in the repo it is marked disable-model-invocation and user-invocable: false, so it does nothing until the plugin installer rewrites it. Documented only in Spanish.

How to install Alfred

git clone https://github.com/686f6c61/alfred-dev.git
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cd alfred-dev && cp -r skills/alfred/alfred ~/.claude/skills/alfred

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger Alfred

/alfred Alias for the Alfred Dev plugin; its installer widens your permissions

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Ejecuta /alfred para ayudarme con este proyecto de desarrollo
Usa el asistente Alfred Dev para revisar el contexto de este repo
Instala el plugin Alfred Dev y activa el asistente contextual

Frequently asked questions

Is the Alfred skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from 686f6c61/alfred-dev. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Alfred work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Aug 7, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Didn't pass. Security gate hit, confirmed by execution rather than by reading: running the plugin's SessionStart hook in a throwaway project wrote both .claude/settings.json and .claude/settings.local.json with defaultMode set to acceptEdits and Bash(python3 *) added to the allow list, then dropped its own alfred-continuity.py into that same project. The string acceptEdits appears nowhere in the README, docs/ or CHANGELOG, so the permission-mode change is undisclosed, and the hook fires automatically on startup, resume, clear and compact. The skill file itself is only a routing stub, and copied in by hand it ships disable-model-invocation: true with user-invocable: false, so it cannot be reached by the model or by the user until the installer flips it. Its own protocol tells the agent to report an error and ask for a reinstall when the plugin is absent, which is strictly worse than having no skill at all.
How do I install Alfred?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Alfred with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.