Building Chenile with Claude

The Chenile plugin for Claude teaches Claude how Chenile works, so the code it writes matches what the framework and its generator expect.

It contains five skills:

Skill	Claude uses it when you…
`chenile-framework-knowledge`	write or review Chenile code, or build a UI or client against Chenile services. It covers the house rules, REST and response contracts, headers, workflow and query APIs, security, messaging, cconfig and admin endpoints.
`chenile-jgen`	generate services, workflows, queries, monoliths or process deployments with JGen, or write and publish blueprints
`chenile-architecture`	need the internals: `ChenileExchange`, the interceptor pipeline, interpolations, service selection
`chenile-process-management`	build or run splitter/aggregator processes, workers, the outbox, triggers and cron
`chenile-query-workflow-blueprints`	work on the query and workflow (Finito STM) runtime

The house rules Claude follows

Tests: always write Cucumber tests, reusing the steps in cucumber-utils.
Reuse: use the existing Chenile utilities instead of writing new ones.
Imports: import classes instead of writing fully qualified names in code.
Beans: create them in @Configuration classes with explicit @Bean methods, not with @Component.
Modules: split complex services into -api and -service modules.
Patterns: look at the JGen blueprints first.

Install

Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add ajapros/chenile-claude-plugins
/plugin install chenile@chenile-plugins

Claude then uses the skills on its own whenever your work matches. To get updates, run /plugin marketplace update chenile-plugins.

claude.ai and Claude desktop:

Download the skill zips from the repository’s releases, or build them with scripts/package-skills.sh.
Upload each one under Settings → Capabilities → Skills.

An organization owner can instead provision them for everyone.

Suggesting it automatically across a team

The plugin’s marketplace entry tells Claude Code when it is relevant:

a pom.xml or Gradle build that depends on org.chenile;
a JGen generation record or blueprint file being read;
running jgen or stm-cli.

Claude Code then offers to install it, but only where an administrator has allowlisted the marketplace in managed settings:

{
  "extraKnownMarketplaces": {
    "chenile-plugins": { "source": { "source": "github", "repo": "ajapros/chenile-claude-plugins" } }
  },
  "pluginSuggestionMarketplaces": ["chenile-plugins"]
}

Contributions are welcome: see the repository’s README.