What is canary-initializer?

An agent that creates a new automated test suite for a framework selected by the user through Canary's setup tool.

It is for scaffolding a test suite, choosing a supported framework, listing created files, and noting dependencies that still need installation.

It guides the initial test setup and reports what it created, reducing configuration work at the start of a project.

canary-initializer — Agent by bop-clocktower

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add agents/bop-clocktower/canary/canary-initializer

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bop-clocktower/canary

Or install canary, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 13 commands, 8 agents, 4 hooks, 3 MCP servers.

Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 491 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00023	$0.00491
Opus 5	$0.00012	$0.00246
Sonnet 5	$0.00005	$0.00098
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00049

Measured 3d ago against content hash 28b38b7726c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

canary-initializer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

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