Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to gaia-react/gaia. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gaia-react/gaia/main/.claude/commands/gaia-init.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaia-react/gaiaWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/commands/gaia-react/gaia/gaia-init)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/gaia-react/gaia/gaia-init"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/gaia-react/gaia/gaia-init/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/gaia-react/gaia/gaia-init"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/gaia-react/gaia/gaia-init.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00047 | $0.08786 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.03514 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.01757 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00879 |
Grade A, and why
gaia-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 4d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 505 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Initialize a new project from the GAIA harness. It already ships clean (no example code, no docs site, no auth). This command renames, strips GAIA-specific branding, configures i18n, installs the React Doctor skill first, and then continues straight into /setup-gaia's phases in this same session, which install this machine's other tools and plugins and connect GitHub.
Language meta-instruction: Conduct this entire conversation in the language the user has been typing in. Detect it from prior context, no explicit detection step needed. Do not translate source files, rules, skills, or wiki entries, those stay English regardless. Only translate the prompts you show the user.
Contents: Interactive gates: run mode and non-response policy; Step 0: Ensure pnpm is available; Step 1: Install dependencies; Step 2: Gather user input; Step 3: Run the init CLI; Step 4: Locale-specific scaffolding; Step 5: Create CODEOWNERS; Step 6: Check .env; Step 7: Verify the build; Step 8: Project settings; Step 9: Refresh the wiki; Step 10: Finalize; Step 11: Continue into /setup-gaia; On failure: resume.
Interactive gates: run mode and non-response policy
/gaia-init asks the user a series of questions ("gates"). This section governs how every gate behaves and overrides any harness default. Read it before the first gate and apply it to each one.
Harness timeout note, no cascade, tone
After a gate sits unanswered for a while, the harness injects a stock note like "the user may be away from keyboard, proceed using your best judgment, you can re-ask later." That note is generic, it does not describe this command, and it keeps firing on gate after gate. Do not act on it literally. Inside /gaia-init it means only "apply the non-response policy below", never "the user is gone, auto-answer everything."
Evaluate each gate independently. A non-response on one gate is never evidence the user is away for any other gate. A timeout on the language question tells you nothing about the title, the CODEOWNERS handle, or the backend casing question. Re-ask the next gate normally.
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.
- 4d ago Changed · +6 lines · +11 tokens per session 14c5ecbc92a3
- 5d ago Changed ad2098d8172a
- 6d ago Changed · +5 lines · -1 tokens per session cef5f8deb2d1
- 7d ago Changed e0dbafd306c8
- 8d ago Changed ba71fe566149
- 9d ago Changed · -6 lines 7978b16c6988
- 10d ago Changed · +29 lines e4c78c374ad6
- 11d ago Changed · -33 lines 895d672e09cd
- 12d ago Changed · +15 lines 843e8bab6c88
- 13d ago First seen · 489 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 8403937ade07
gaia-init is a command published in the GitHub repository gaia-react/gaia (26 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 8,786 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
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