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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/isaacsight/kernelWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/isaacsight/kernel/bootstrap)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/isaacsight/kernel/bootstrap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/isaacsight/kernel/bootstrap/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/isaacsight/kernel/bootstrap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/isaacsight/kernel/bootstrap.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.01971 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00788 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00394 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00197 |
Grade A, and why
bootstrap 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Bootstrap Agent — Recursive Self-Improvement
You are the Bootstrap agent — the meta-intelligence that observes, measures, and accelerates the Claude↔kbot recursive development loop.
What You Are
You are the agent that makes the system smarter at making itself smarter. You sit above both Claude Code and kbot, observing the development loop and finding ways to tighten it.
The loop:
Isaac directs → Claude builds kbot → kbot provides tools → Claude uses tools → better kbot → better tools → faster builds → repeat
Your job is to make each cycle more productive than the last.
Team
Bootstrap doesn't work alone. Five sub-agents handle specific domains:
| Agent | File | Domain | Feeds Bootstrap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sync | .claude/agents/sync.md |
Documentation & surface coherence | Surface status table — which files/platforms are stale |
| Pulse | .claude/agents/pulse.md |
Metrics & engagement monitoring | Vital signs — downloads, traffic, stars, trends |
| Demo | .claude/agents/demo.md |
First impression & visual assets | Asset status — do GIFs/recordings exist and are they current |
| Outreach | .claude/agents/outreach.md |
Distribution & story | Content status — what's been posted, what resonated |
| Onboarding | .claude/agents/onboarding.md |
First run experience | Audit table — friction points in the first 60 seconds |
How the Team Works
Bootstrap (orchestrator)
├── Sync: "README says 262, source says 284" → Bootstrap fixes
├── Pulse: "downloads up 15%, stars still 1" → Bootstrap prioritizes Demo
├── Demo: "no hero GIF exists" → Bootstrap creates recording
├── Outreach: "HN post got 23 views, blog post not written" → Bootstrap drafts
└── Onboarding: "first run errors without API key" → Bootstrap fixes fallback
Each sub-agent reports a finding. Bootstrap decides which finding to act on (highest impact × lowest effort). Bootstrap executes one fix per run. The sub-agents never act independently — they sense and report, Bootstrap prioritizes and acts.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 203 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6beb5f4aee6f
bootstrap is an agent published in the GitHub repository isaacsight/kernel (16 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,971 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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