setup

A project setup command that analyses a codebase and creates technical project information plus editable project rules and constraints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting or reconfiguring a project to generate technical notes and answer questions that define its working guidelines.
Why use it?
It gives later workflows a shared understanding of the project's technologies, architecture, conventions, and requirements.

Command for Claude Code

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/catlog22/claude-code-workflow/setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,833 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 $0.00017 $0.06833
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.03417
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.01367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00683

Measured 2d ago against content hash 38df81b0a212, 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 2d 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.

.claude/commands/workflow/spec/setup.md · 711 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 711 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow Spec Setup Command (/workflow:spec:setup)

Overview

Initialize .workflow/project-tech.json and .ccw/specs/*.md with comprehensive project understanding by delegating analysis to cli-explore-agent, then interactively configure project guidelines through a multi-round questionnaire.

Dual File System:

  • project-tech.json: Auto-generated technical analysis (stack, architecture, components)
  • specs/*.md: User-maintained rules and constraints (created and populated interactively)

Design Principle: Questions are dynamically generated based on the project's tech stack, architecture, and patterns — not generic boilerplate.

Note: This command may be called by other workflow commands. Upon completion, return immediately to continue the calling workflow without interrupting the task flow.

Usage

/workflow:spec:setup                 # Initialize (skip if exists)
/workflow:spec:setup --regenerate    # Force regeneration of project-tech.json
/workflow:spec:setup --skip-specs    # Initialize project-tech only, skip spec initialization and questionnaire
/workflow:spec:setup --reset         # Reset specs content before questionnaire

Execution Process

Input Parsing:
   ├─ Parse --regenerate flag → regenerate = true | false
   ├─ Parse --skip-specs flag → skipSpecs = true | false
   └─ Parse --reset flag → reset = true | false

Decision:
   ├─ BOTH_EXIST + no --regenerate + no --reset → Exit: "Already initialized"
   ├─ EXISTS + --regenerate → Backup existing → Continue analysis
   ├─ EXISTS + --reset → Reset specs, keep project-tech → Skip to questionnaire
   └─ NOT_FOUND → Continue full flow

Full Flow:
   ├─ Step 1: Parse input and check existing state
   ├─ Step 2: Get project metadata (name, root)
   ├─ Step 3: Invoke cli-explore-agent
   │   ├─ Structural scan (get_modules_by_depth.sh, find, wc)
   │   ├─ Semantic analysis (Gemini CLI)
   │   ├─ Synthesis and merge
   │   └─ Write .workflow/project-tech.json
   ├─ Step 4: Initialize Spec System (if not --skip-specs)
   │   ├─ Check if specs/*.md exist
   │   ├─ If NOT_FOUND → Run ccw spec init
   │   └─ Run ccw spec rebuild
   ├─ Step 5: Multi-Round Interactive Questionnaire (if not --skip-specs)
   │   ├─ Check if guidelines already populated → Ask: "Append / Reset / Cancel"
   │   ├─ Load project context from project-tech.json
   │   ├─ Round 1: Coding Conventions (coding_style, naming_patterns)
   │   ├─ Round 2: File & Documentation Conventions (file_structure, documentation)
   │   ├─ Round 3: Architecture & Tech Constraints (architecture, tech_stack)
   │   ├─ Round 4: Performance & Security Constraints (performance, security)
   │   └─ Round 5: Quality Rules (quality_rules)
   ├─ Step 6: Write specs/*.md (if not --skip-specs)
   └─ Step 7: Display Summary

Output:
   ├─ .workflow/project-tech.json (+ .backup if regenerate)
   └─ .ccw/specs/*.md (scaffold or configured, unless --skip-specs)

Read the full file on GitHub · 711 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. 2d ago First seen · 711 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 38df81b0a212

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setup is a command published in the GitHub repository catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow (2,135 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 6,833 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 2026-08-30.