Custom Metadata Types And Settings

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Security · Sub-category: security-misc

Use when choosing between Custom Metadata Types and Custom Settings, understanding hierarchical vs list settings, deployment behavior, governor limit implications, or accessing either from Apex and Flow. Trigger keywords: 'custom metadata vs custom settings', 'hierarchical settings per user profile', 'deployable config vs runtime settings', 'getValues getInstance in apex', 'flow get records custom settings'. NOT for custom objects (use object-creation-and-design), NOT for Named Credentials (use named-credentials-setup), NOT for general CMT field design in isolation (use custom-metadata-types).

What this skill does

Custom Metadata Types And Settings is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the security-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/custom-metadata-types-and-settings/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when choosing between Custom Metadata Types and Custom Settings, understanding hierarchical vs list settings, deployment behavior, governor limit implications, or accessing either from Apex and Flow. Trigger keywords: 'custom metadata vs custom settings', 'hierarchical settings per user profile', 'deployable config vs runtime settings', 'getValues getInstance in apex', 'flow get records custom settings'.

Who uses this skill

The Custom Metadata Types And Settings skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/custom-metadata-types-and-settings
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/custom-metadata-types-and-settings/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/custom-metadata-types-and-settings/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/custom-metadata-types-and-settings/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/custom-metadata-types-and-settings/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\custom-metadata-types-and-settings\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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