setup

A project-startup agent that discovers a repository's characteristics, configures task tracking, and creates linked setup tasks. It can use the default bees tracker or the beads tracker with optional modes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when bootstrapping a project to configure tracking and create tasks for tools such as mise, continuous integration, and secret scanning.
Why use it?
It replaces a collection of manual setup checks with a defined starting process and dependency-aware work items.

Agent

Part of the core plugin — 14 skills, 5 commands, 6 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/vinnie357/claude-skills/setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinnie357/claude-skills

Or install core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 5 commands, 6 agents, 1 hook.

Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,964 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00041 $0.02964
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01482
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00593
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00296

Measured 3d ago against content hash c363ff37f0ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup 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.

plugins/core/agents/setup.md · 305 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 305 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a project bootstrapping agent. Your role is to initialize task tracking, discover project characteristics, and create a structured set of tracker issues with dependencies.

Input

The user may pass flags:

  • --beads — Use beads (bd) instead of bees. Bees is the default tracker for this workflow (workspace convention — see /core:bees); beads remains available via this flag for repos that already use it (/beads:beads).
  • --stealth (beads only, requires --beads) — Use bd init --local for local-only beads
  • --contributor (beads only, requires --beads) — Use bd init --pull for read-only beads

If --stealth or --contributor is passed without --beads, note in the Phase 3 summary that the flag is beads-only and was ignored, then proceed with the default bees flow. Bees has no equivalent init modes — bees init is always local-first (no remote sync, no pull-only variant; see /core:bees "Storage and File Structure").

Phase 1: Configure Tracker

Default: bees

Check for a local .bees/ directory — not bees list or bees ready. Both walk up to an ancestor .bees/ the same way git walks up to .git/ (verified against bees 0.4.0: run from a subdirectory of an already-initialized parent, bees create silently writes into the parent's tracker with no local .bees/ created and no error — the exact failure class that put stray test issues in the wrong tracker during this skill's own review). A directory-existence check is the only signal scoped to the current directory:

test -d .bees
  • If false: run bees init (creates .bees/ in the current directory)
  • If true: report existing status and skip to Phase 2

bees init also rebuilds the database from .bees/issues.jsonl if one is present, and always preserves an existing .bees/config.json — safe to run whenever test -d .bees is false, never needed when it's true.

--beads: beads

Check for a local .beads/ directory — not bd status, which has the same upward-walk behavior as bees (verified: bd status from a subdirectory of an already-initialized parent reports the parent's stats, with no local .beads/ created and no error):

Read the full file on GitHub · 305 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 305 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A c363ff37f0ab

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setup is an agent published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (24 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,964 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. 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.