Clerk Backend Api

This is a comprehensive wrapper around Clerk's Backend API that prioritizes safe execution over convenience. It includes fast-path templates for common operations like creating orgs, inviting members, and updating user metadata, plus mandatory safety checks before any write request (checking your secret key, verifying scopes, and forcing explicit confirmation on deletes). The metadata type guidance is genuinely helpful since Clerk has three variants with different visibility rules. The skill leans heavily on curl with inline Python for JSON parsing rather than abstracting the HTTP layer, which makes debugging easier but feels a bit verbose. If you're managing Clerk users and orgs from the command line or building backend automation, this gives you the full API surface with guardrails that prevent expensive mistakes.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add clerk/skills --skill clerk-backend-api --agent claude-code