sdlc-init

A project setup command for the Evo Talos software-development lifecycle toolkit. It detects the active coding-agent tool and adds the toolkit's project files and settings for Codex, Claude Code, or both.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialise a project with Talos files, choose a Codex or Claude Code target, or prepare a project for both tools.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of copying rules, settings, and hook scripts into a project and warns about overlapping existing instructions.

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/evolplus/talos/sdlc-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/evolplus/talos
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 395 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 $0.00395
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00040

Measured 2d ago against content hash d738eacab114, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdlc-init 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.

commands/sdlc-init.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Initialize the current project with the Evo Talos SDLC devkit plugin content.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Run the plugin initializer helper and pass $ARGUMENTS through exactly.

Preferred command:

node "$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/sdlc-init.cjs" $ARGUMENTS

If CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT is unavailable or the helper cannot be found there, locate this plugin directory by finding .claude-plugin/plugin.json or .codex-plugin/plugin.json with "name": "talos", then run:

node "<plugin-root>/scripts/sdlc-init.cjs" $ARGUMENTS

The helper performs these project-local changes:

  1. Detects the active agent tool from environment signals first, then project markers if needed.
  2. In Codex, injects rules/CLAUDE.md into the project's AGENTS.md inside a managed block.
  3. In Claude Code, injects CLAUDE.md, merges settings/original-settings.json into .claude/settings.json, and copies hook scripts into .claude/hooks.
  4. Warns when existing project instruction headings overlap with plugin sections.
  5. Treats --target codex|claude|both as an explicit override for migration or dual-tool setups.

After the helper finishes, summarize the changed files and relay every WARN and ERROR line. If the helper exits nonzero, stop and tell the user which file or conflict needs attention. Do not rerun with --force-hooks unless the user explicitly supplied that flag.

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 · 33 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A d738eacab114

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sdlc-init is a command published in the GitHub repository evolplus/talos (8 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 395 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.