project-setup

project-setup is a command for Claude Code from 16wells/claude-project-setup. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,624 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for setting up project folders for client work, internal products, or tools. It supports creating a project, adding the standard structure to an existing folder, or reconciling project memory after a lost thread.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or retrofitting a project folder, or when rebuilding its state and notes from available evidence.
Why use it?
It ensures the command uses the configured template and storage locations, reducing setup mistakes and keeping project files organised.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it when creating or retrofitting a project folder, or when rebuilding its state and notes from available evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/16wells/claude-project-setup/project-setup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/16wells/claude-project-setup

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,624 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.02624
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.01050
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00525
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00262

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c998f623eec8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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 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.

templates/client-project/.claude/commands/project-setup.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handle project setup for one of three project types: client engagement, internal product owned by the practice, or tool built for personal/team use. There are three modes (greenfield / retrofit / reconcile) — you must determine both the type and the mode before doing any work.

Step 0: Locate the template repo, then read its config

TEMPLATE_ROOT is the absolute path to the cloned claude-project-setup repo on this machine. Nothing below works until you know it. Resolve it in this order:

  1. The line directly below, if it holds a real path. bin/setup.sh writes it into the user-level copy of this command (~/.claude/commands/project-setup.md) at install time.
  2. If the line below is still the unfilled marker comment (project-level copies inside a project folder always are), read ~/.claude/commands/project-setup.md and take the path from the same line there.
  3. If neither gives a path, ask the user. Do not search the filesystem or guess.

Then read $TEMPLATE_ROOT/config.local.md — if it exists, use those values. Otherwise fall back to $TEMPLATE_ROOT/config.md. The .local.md variant is gitignored and holds the user's real paths and identity; config.md is the generic public version. If the config's own TEMPLATE_ROOT value differs from the path you used to find it, tell the user: the repo has probably moved and bin/setup.sh needs re-running.

That file defines:

  • TEMPLATE_ROOT — the absolute path to the cloned repo on this machine
  • CLIENTS_ROOT — the absolute path to the directory where client project folders live
  • INTERNAL_ROOT — the absolute path to the directory where internal-product folders live
  • TOOLS_ROOT — the absolute path to the directory where tool folders live (often the same as INTERNAL_ROOT — both paths are configurable)

Every path in this command is expressed relative to those variables. Do not hardcode anyone's home directory.

If the file that was actually read (either .local.md or .md) is missing or any required variable is empty, stop and ask the user to fill it before continuing. If the file still contains /REPLACE/WITH/... placeholders, stop and tell the user to fill it first — the repo won't work until they do.

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. 1mo ago Changed · +8 lines c998f623eec8
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 136 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 625b6381719a

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project-setup is a command published in the GitHub repository 16wells/claude-project-setup (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,624 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 2026-08-31.

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