Activate Anthara on a repository

Activating a repository adds the anthara plugin to it. After that, every Claude Code session in the repository loads your organization’s standards and memory.

Anthara does this with a pull request, so your team reviews the change like any other.

Before you begin

• The repository is listed under Repositories. See Import repositories.
• The repository is on GitHub or Azure DevOps. Other providers show Integration status not yet supported for this provider.
• You are connected to that provider on the Connections page. Anthara opens the pull request with your connection.
• Your organization has at least one memory group. If the dialog reads No memory groups available, ask an Anthara admin to create one.

Activate

1. Open Repositories and select the repository.
2. On the banner AI standards not active for this repository, select Activate.
3. In the Activate Anthara dialog, choose a Memory group.
4. Select Confirm.
5. Review and merge the pull request.

While the pull request is open, the banner reads AI standards activation in progress and links to the pull request. The banner disappears after the pull request merges and the repository is active.

A repository can have only one open Anthara pull request at a time.

What the memory group does

A memory group is the shared memory that the repository’s sessions read and write. It becomes the last part of the Fabric address, /mcp/<memory group>.

A memory group name uses lowercase letters, digits, hyphens, and underscores. It starts with a letter or a digit and is at most 256 characters long.

What the pull request adds

The pull request is titled Add Anthara integration configuration. It comes from a branch named anthara/add-integration-<timestamp> and targets the repository’s default branch.

Path	What it does
.claude/settings.json	Registers .anthara/ as a local plugin marketplace named anthara. Enables the plugin anthara@anthara. Adds a session-start hook that installs and updates the plugin.
.anthara/	The plugin files: skills, agents, and hooks.
.anthara/anthara/.mcp.json	The Fabric MCP address, with your organization’s Fabric URL and the memory group already filled in.

If .claude/settings.json already exists, Anthara keeps your other settings and adds its own keys.

Caution

Anthara rewrites .anthara/ on every update. Edits you make by hand in that folder are lost.

This is the hook that Anthara adds to .claude/settings.json:

{
  "matcher": "startup",
  "hooks": [
    {
      "type": "command",
      "command": "claude plugin marketplace add \"${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/.anthara\" && claude plugin install anthara@anthara && claude plugin update anthara@anthara"
    }
  ]
}

Update

When a newer plugin version is available, the repository page shows Update available with the old and new version numbers.

1. Select Update.
2. In the Update Anthara dialog, choose a Memory group and select Confirm.
3. Review and merge the pull request.

While that pull request is open, the banner reads AI standards update in progress.

Next step

Install the plugin and sign in covers what each developer does after the pull request merges.