project-setup

A repository setup command that interviews a team about its project and records the answers as shared project context. It also proposes tailored specialist roles for the repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize project memory, document repository context, capture a glossary and design decisions, and create project-specific specialist guidance.
Why use it?
It helps an AI agent understand a codebase's purpose, architecture, decisions, and unfamiliar terms before making changes.

Command

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 commands/askwigconsulting/cohort/project-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/askwigconsulting/cohort
Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 511 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 $0.00019 $0.00511
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00255
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00051

Measured yesterday against content hash 4c2ddc17604c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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.

canonical/commands/project-setup.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Initialize and tailor Cohort for the current repository. You are conducting a short interview about the project, then driving the cohort CLI. Show every artifact before it lands; the human approves each one.

1 — Ensure the project is initialized

Run cohort status --json. If there is no project section, run cohort init first (it scaffolds .cohort/ and wires project memory).

2 — Project context interview

Ask, one question at a time, and keep answers concise:

  1. Purpose — what is this project and why does it exist?
  2. Architecture — the major components and how they fit (read the repo first; confirm your understanding rather than asking cold).
  3. Decisions — any durable decisions already made, and their rationale.
  4. Glossary — project-specific terms a newcomer would trip over.

Fill the matching stable sections of .cohort/project_context.md (never touch the managed Recent sessions block). Show the diff and apply their edits.

3 — Tailored specialists

From the interview and the codebase, propose 1–3 project specialists that would genuinely help (e.g. a schema advisor for a data-heavy repo). For each, draft a real body — Role, Advises on with concrete areas (never "edit me"), Boundaries, Escalation. On approval, write the body to a temp file and run:

cohort add-specialist --name <slug> --display-name <Name> --department <Dept> \
  --description '<desc>' --body-file <tempfile>

If a specialist would shadow a global roster agent, say so and let the human decide. Do not create specialists the team did not approve.

4 — Close out

Run cohort snapshot to record the session, and remind the team of the loop: cohort feedback after working with an agent, cohort propose-improvement when signals accumulate. .cohort/ (minus state/ and compiled/) is git-tracked — suggest committing it so the context ships with the repo.

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. yesterday First seen · 51 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 4c2ddc17604c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-setup is a command published in the GitHub repository askwigconsulting/cohort (2 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 511 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.