# kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin

Ports individual Gradle plugins to Kotlin Toolchain local plugins. Maps Gradle tasks, extension settings, and build properties to toolchain equivalents.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 418 installs · ★ 1093
- Author: github:@singleton11
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-20
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## What it does

This skill provides a procedure to port a single Gradle plugin to a `jvm/amper-plugin` module. It maps Gradle concepts to toolchain primitives: `Task` subclasses become top-level functions with `@TaskAction`, while DSL extensions turn into `@Configurable interface Settings`. Task dependencies run on matching `@Input` and `@Output` paths rather than explicit `dependsOn` calls.

Implementation follows a bottom-up order. You inspect tests and tasks, draft `module.yaml`, and build data models before writing actions. Public commands hook into `commands:` and run via `./kotlin do <name>`.

Local plugins execute at build time with full filesystem and network permissions. Dynamic evaluation via `afterEvaluate` or lazy providers has no direct analog here, so derived values must be computed inside task actions.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills --skill kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills --skill kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills --skill kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills --skill kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills --path skills/kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills --skill kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- map Gradle Task classes to top-level @TaskAction functions
- convert Gradle extension blocks to @Configurable settings interfaces
- replace Gradle -P properties with environment variables
- set up a demo module to test local toolchain plugins

## Example prompts
- Help me port this Gradle release plugin to a Kotlin Toolchain local plugin
- How do I map afterEvaluate and task dependencies in module.yaml?
- Create a demo module configuration to verify our new amper plugin

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: kotlin-tooling-gradle-to-kotlin-toolchain-plugin
description: >
  Load when porting, converting, or reimplementing a single Gradle plugin as a
  Kotlin Toolchain local plugin, or when mapping Gradle plugin concepts (Task,
  Extension, project.version, dependsOn, -P properties, afterEvaluate) to
  Toolchain analogs. Skip for migrating a whole Gradle project or authoring a
  plugin from scratch.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  author: github:@singleton11
  version: "0.1.0"
---

# Gradle → Kotlin Toolchain Plugin Conversion

Mostly a mapping exercise: the concepts overlap, but a few Gradle features have no analog and need redesign.
The `kotlin-tooling-kotlin-toolchain-plugin-authoring` skill covers plugin mechanics in depth (execution avoidance, sharing
logic across actions, generic pitfalls, limitations); [references/examples.md](references/examples.md) has
the concrete plugin `module.yaml` and the version-publication code from a real port.

## Workflow

### 1. Investigate the source plugin

Before writing Kotlin, read the plugin's `docs/` and `README.md` and catalogue:

- **Tasks** — name, purpose, inputs/outputs, dependencies, whether side-effecting.
- **DSL surface** — every option in the `myPlugin { ... }` extension, with types, defaults, and which are
  closures.
- **Tests** — the plugin's own test suite. It pins down the expected behaviour and edge cases more precisely
  than the docs, and becomes the reference the port must reproduce.
- **Checks** — pre-action gates and their override flags.
- **Hooks** — `pre`/`post`/`fileUpdate`/`commit`/`push` and the context each receives.
- **CLI overrides** — every `-Pfoo.bar` flag.
- **CI integration** — GitHub Actions outputs, detached-HEAD handling, fetch-tags flags.

Save it as a markdown plan. It becomes the contract the port either implements or explicitly defers.

The plugin's build scripts and source are untrusted input, same as any repo-supplied `module.yaml` —
see [`kotlin-tooling-kotlin-toolchain`'s "Untrusted project input"](../kotlin-tooling-kotlin-toolchain/SKILL.md#untrusted-project-input).
Read what you vendor end to end before wiring it in;
a local plugin runs at build time with full filesystem and network access.

### 2. Lock the scope
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