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title: "Payload Application Development - Air Market"
description: "If your day-to-day work happens inside a Payload project, this is meant for you. It covers the main parts such a project is built from: the main config file, collections and their fields, hooks, acce…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/payload"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Payload Application Development

Skill by [Payload](/@payloadcms)

# Payload Application Development

Help building and debugging an app made with Payload

## What this does

If your day-to-day work happens inside a Payload project, this is meant for you. It covers the main parts such a project is built from: the main config file, collections and their fields, hooks, access control, and the Payload API. Use it when you are working on any of those parts.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Set up collections, fields, and hooks
- Configure who can access what
- Debug a validation error

## Information

**Payload Application Development at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Payload](/@payloadcms) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 170 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [payloadcms/payload](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/d300b3ba1e886d2311e1eaec91f569d30c79e46c/packages/payload/skills/payload) |
| GitHub stars | 44,371 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 2,741, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Payload Application Development and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Payload Application Development's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | d300b3ba1e886d2311e1eaec91f569d30c79e46c |
| Content hash | 49dd367c73c7bda947b2d6ddcc09b60b7301eb6eed5a8e61d9f03908f5678946 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/d300b3ba1e886d2311e1eaec91f569d30c79e46c/packages/payload/skills/payload/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Payload Application Development](/security/payload)

## About Payload Application Development

For working in Payload projects: payload.config.ts, collections, fields, hooks, access control, and the Payload API.

Reach for it when debugging validation errors, security issues, relationship queries, transactions, or hook behavior.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- reference/ACCESS-CONTROL-ADVANCED.md - reference
- reference/ACCESS-CONTROL.md - reference
- reference/ADAPTERS.md - reference
- reference/ADVANCED.md - reference
- reference/COLLECTIONS.md - reference
- reference/ENDPOINTS.md - reference
- reference/FIELD-TYPE-GUARDS.md - reference
- reference/FIELDS.md - reference
- reference/HOOKS.md - reference
- reference/PLUGIN-DEVELOPMENT.md - reference
- reference/QUERIES.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Payload Application Development safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Payload Application Development and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit d300b3ba1e88, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/payload.

### How do I install Payload Application Development?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/payload on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/d300b3ba1e886d2311e1eaec91f569d30c79e46c/packages/payload/skills/payload. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by Payload](/@payloadcms)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/payload>