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Orchardcore Recipe Creator

by OrchardCMS in OrchardCMS/OrchardCore

Creates OrchardCore setup recipes (.recipe.json) that provision a tenant on setup — enabling features, setting themes, defining content types, importing content, roles, and settings.

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Install Orchardcore Recipe Creator

skills CLI
$ npx skills add OrchardCMS/OrchardCore --skill orchardcore-recipe-creator -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install OrchardCMS/OrchardCore orchardcore-recipe-creator --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OrchardCMS/OrchardCore.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/orchardcore-recipe-creator .claude/skills/orchardcore-recipe-creator && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
orchardcore-recipe-creator
GitHub stars
8.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
572 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
17
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
BSD-3-Clause

At a glance

Creates OrchardCore setup recipes (.recipe.json) that provision a tenant on setup — enabling features, setting themes, defining content types, importing content, roles, and settings.

  • Works in 6 steps: Choose the host and create the Recipes… → Write the recipe header → Add the core steps in order → …
  • The user needs to create a setup recipe
  • SKILL.md covers Prerequisites, What makes a recipe a setup…, Setup Recipe Workflow and Quick Reference, plus 1 more section
  • Calls dotnet; reaches orchardcore.net

What it does

Orchardcore Recipe Creator is an agent skill from OrchardCMS/OrchardCore. Creates OrchardCore setup recipes (.recipe.json) that provision a tenant on setup — enabling features, setting themes, defining content types, importing content, roles, and settings. Use when the user needs to create a setup recipe, a starter recipe, or automate tenant configuration.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including reference files (for example `references/recipe-structure.md` and `references/steps.md`).

The repository describes itself as: Orchard Core is an open-source modular and multi-tenant application framework built with ASP.NET Core, and a content management system (CMS) built on top of that framework. The licence is BSD-3-Clause.

When your agent uses it

  • The user needs to create a setup recipe
  • A starter recipe
  • Automate tenant configuration

Example prompts

  • “Use the orchardcore-recipe-creator skill to create OrchardCore setup recipes (.recipe.json) that provision a tenant on setup — enabling features…”
  • “/orchardcore-recipe-creator”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Choose the host and create the Recipes folder
  2. Write the recipe header
  3. Add the core steps in order
  4. Reference the full step catalog
  5. Use recipe helpers for dynamic values
  6. Test the recipe

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bfbe92f. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • dotnet

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • orchardcore.net

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Orchardcore Recipe Creator loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 572 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~78
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from OrchardCMS/OrchardCore at commit bfbe92f, republished under its BSD-3-Clause licence (© OrchardCMS). 572 words, ~1,608 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/orchardcore-recipe-creator/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
orchardcore-recipe-creator
description
Creates OrchardCore setup recipes (.recipe.json) that provision a tenant on setup — enabling features, setting themes, defining content types, importing content, roles, and settings. Use when the user needs to create a setup recipe, a starter recipe, or automate tenant configuration.

OrchardCore Setup Recipe Creator

This skill guides you through creating a setup recipe for OrchardCore. A setup recipe is a .recipe.json file that runs when a tenant is created, provisioning everything the site needs: enabled features, active themes, content definitions, content items, roles, and settings.

Prerequisites

  • OrchardCore repository (working directory)
  • A module or theme to host the recipe (recipes live in a Recipes/ folder)
  • Basic knowledge of the features your site needs

What makes a recipe a setup recipe

A setup recipe is a normal recipe with "issetuprecipe": true in its header. That flag makes it appear in the setup screen's recipe dropdown so a user can pick it when creating a tenant. Without it, the recipe is still executable from the admin (Configuration → Recipes) but won't show during setup.

Setup Recipe Workflow

Step 1: Choose the host and create the Recipes folder

Recipes are discovered from a Recipes/ folder inside any enabled module or theme:

bash
mkdir src/OrchardCore.Themes/YourTheme/Recipes

The file name must end with .recipe.json:

src/OrchardCore.Themes/YourTheme/Recipes/yoursite.recipe.json
Step 2: Write the recipe header
json
{
  "name": "YourSite",
  "displayName": "Your Site",
  "description": "Provisions a Your Site tenant with content and theme.",
  "author": "The Orchard Core Team",
  "website": "https://orchardcore.net",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "issetuprecipe": true,
  "categories": [ "default" ],
  "tags": [ "yoursite" ],
  "variables": {
    "homeContentItemId": "[js:uuid()]"
  },
  "steps": []
}

variables are evaluated on first access and reused across steps — use them for content item ids so steps can reference the same item. Recipe JSON may contain // comments.

Step 3: Add the core steps in order

Steps run top to bottom. A typical setup recipe order:

  1. feature — enable the modules and theme features the site needs.
  2. themes — set the active site and admin themes.
  3. settings — site-wide settings (home route, culture, time zone).
  4. Roles — roles and their permissions.
  5. ContentDefinition — content types and parts.
  6. content — the actual content items (pages, menus, widgets).
  7. media, queries, layers, Templates, AdminMenu — as needed.

Minimum viable setup recipe:

json
"steps": [
  {
    "name": "feature",
    "enable": [
      "OrchardCore.Admin",
      "OrchardCore.Contents",
      "OrchardCore.ContentTypes",
      "OrchardCore.Title",
      "OrchardCore.Autoroute",
      "OrchardCore.Alias",
      "OrchardCore.Themes",
      "OrchardCore.HomeRoute",
      "TheTheme",
      "YourTheme"
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "themes",
    "admin": "TheAdmin",
    "site": "YourTheme"
  }
]

!!! warning Always enable your own theme's feature in the feature step. If you set it as the site theme without enabling it, the layout won't render after setup.

Step 4: Reference the full step catalog

For every built-in step (feature, themes, settings, ContentDefinition, content, media, Roles, layers, queries, Templates, AdminMenu, WorkflowType, deployment, custom-settings, recipes, search indexes), see references/steps.md.

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Step 5: Use recipe helpers for dynamic values

Values can embed expressions with [helper:...] syntax:

HelperExampleUse
js"[js:variables('homeContentItemId')]"Reference variables / JS expressions
uuid"[js:uuid()]"Generate a new content item id
file"[file:text('Snippets/home.liquid')]"Inline an external file's text
env"[env:MY_VAR]"Read an environment variable
appsettings"[appsettings:OrchardCore:SiteName]"Read appsettings config
localization"[localization:WelcomeTitle]"Localized string
base64 / gzip"[js:base64('...')]"Decode embedded binary/text
Step 6: Test the recipe
bash
# Build the host module/theme
dotnet build src/OrchardCore.Themes/YourTheme

# Run the application
cd src/OrchardCore.Cms.Web
dotnet run -f net10.0

Then create a new tenant (or reset the default one) and pick Your Site in the setup screen's recipe list. Verify features, theme, and content provisioned correctly.

To re-run a non-setup recipe without a fresh tenant: Admin → Configuration → Recipes → Run.

Quick Reference

Header properties
PropertyPurpose
nameUnique internal id (used by the recipes step to call it)
displayNameFriendly name in setup/admin UI
descriptionShort summary shown to the user
issetuprecipetrue makes it selectable during tenant setup
categories / tagsGrouping/filtering in the UI
variablesReusable values, evaluated once on first access
stepsOrdered actions to execute
Common feature ids
AreaFeatures
CoreOrchardCore.Admin, OrchardCore.HomeRoute, OrchardCore.Themes, OrchardCore.Settings, OrchardCore.Recipes
ContentOrchardCore.Contents, OrchardCore.ContentTypes, OrchardCore.ContentFields, OrchardCore.Title, OrchardCore.Autoroute, OrchardCore.Alias, OrchardCore.Html, OrchardCore.Flows, OrchardCore.Lists, OrchardCore.Widgets
Media/MenuOrchardCore.Media, OrchardCore.Menu, OrchardCore.Layers
SecurityOrchardCore.Users, OrchardCore.Roles, OrchardCore.Security
Naming Conventions
ItemConventionExample
Recipe filename.recipe.json (lowercase)blog.recipe.json
name propertyPascalCaseBlog
LocationRecipes/ in a module or themeThemes/TheBlogTheme/Recipes/

References

  • references/recipe-structure.md - File layout, header, variables, helpers
  • references/steps.md - Every built-in recipe step with examples
  • reference/modules/Recipes/README.md (docs) - Full recipe documentation
  • Example recipes: src/OrchardCore.Themes/*/Recipes/*.recipe.json

© OrchardCMS, BSD-3-Clause. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in .agents/skills/orchardcore-recipe-creator of OrchardCMS/OrchardCore.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/recipe-structure.md
  • references/steps.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bfbe92f

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Questions about Orchardcore Recipe Creator

What does Orchardcore Recipe Creator do?

Creates OrchardCore setup recipes (.recipe.json) that provision a tenant on setup — enabling features, setting themes, defining content types, importing content, roles, and settings. Orchardcore Recipe Creator is an agent skill from OrchardCMS/OrchardCore.json) that provision a tenant on setup — enabling features, setting themes, defining content types, importing content, roles, and settings.

When should I use Orchardcore Recipe Creator?

Orchardcore Recipe Creator fits situations like: the user needs to create a setup recipe; A starter recipe; automate tenant configuration.

How do I install Orchardcore Recipe Creator in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add OrchardCMS/OrchardCore --skill orchardcore-recipe-creator -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/orchardcore-recipe-creator in OrchardCMS/OrchardCore) into .claude/skills/orchardcore-recipe-creator in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Orchardcore Recipe Creator in Codex?

Run `npx skills add OrchardCMS/OrchardCore --skill orchardcore-recipe-creator -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/orchardcore-recipe-creator in OrchardCMS/OrchardCore) into .agents/skills/orchardcore-recipe-creator in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Orchardcore Recipe Creator in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add OrchardCMS/OrchardCore --skill orchardcore-recipe-creator -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/orchardcore-recipe-creator, .gemini/skills/orchardcore-recipe-creator, .github/skills/orchardcore-recipe-creator and .opencode/skills/orchardcore-recipe-creator in your project.

What does Orchardcore Recipe Creator need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Orchardcore Recipe Creator needs the command-line tools its instructions call (dotnet).

Does Orchardcore Recipe Creator access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. In commands or code: orchardcore.net; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Orchardcore Recipe Creator safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Orchardcore Recipe Creator use?

Orchardcore Recipe Creator is published under the BSD-3-Clause licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Orchardcore Recipe Creator use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Orchardcore Recipe Creator?

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Who maintains Orchardcore Recipe Creator?

OrchardCMS (a GitHub organization) maintains it in OrchardCMS/OrchardCore, which has 8,193 GitHub stars. The repository holds 17 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: OrchardCMS/OrchardCore on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.