board-init

A setup command that creates the files and folders for an engineering board in a project. An engineering board is a repository-based place for tracking findings, decisions, hypotheses, and related records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a new board, create its standard entry folders, and see the suggested .gitignore settings.
Why use it?
It gives the plugin the project structure it needs without overwriting existing files.

Command

Part of the engineering-board plugin — 6 skills, 21 commands, 8 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server, 1 plugin shipped together

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/ghostlygawd/engineering-board/board-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GhostlyGawd/engineering-board

Or install engineering-board, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 21 commands, 8 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server, 1 plugin.

Per session 64 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,598 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 $0.00064 $0.01598
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00799
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00160

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2f88581a6ec9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

board-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/board-init.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/board-init: scaffold a project board

Initialize the engineering-board layout for project: $1 Affects prefix(es): ${2:-$1/} (defaults to <project-name>/ when omitted)

What to do

You are creating the engineering-board/ scaffold this plugin's hooks and skills expect: a visible, committed-by-default top-level directory (the new default since 1.1.0). Be precise about file paths and idempotent: never clobber an existing file.

Backward compatibility. Existing boards under docs/boards/ (and the legacy single-board docs/board/) keep resolving with no action: the resolver checks engineering-board/ first, then docs/boards/, then docs/board/. This command always scaffolds new boards at the engineering-board/ default. To move an existing board onto the new path, use /board-migrate --relocate: do not re-scaffold it here.

Step 1 — Validate inputs

  • If $1 (project name) is empty, default it to the repository directory's basename (basename of $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR), lowercased with any character outside [a-z0-9-] replaced by -: a smart default beats a dead stop. State the inferred name in the Step 7 report. only ask the user and stop if the sanitized basename comes out empty. Project names should be kebab-case (e.g. navigator, retail-workflow).
  • Confirm you are in the project root: the directory where engineering-board/ should live (typically the repo root, alongside .git/). If the current working directory looks wrong (e.g. a home dir), confirm with the user before creating files.
  • Check whether --private appears in $ARGUMENTS. it is a flag (not the project name or affects-prefix) that changes the .gitignore guidance in Step 6.

Step 2 — Create or update engineering-board/BOARD-ROUTER.md

If engineering-board/BOARD-ROUTER.md does not exist, create it with this content:

# Board Router

Maps each project to its board directory. The `affects:` prefix on entry frontmatter determines which board the entry belongs to.

| project | path | affects prefix |
|---------|------|----------------|
| $1 | engineering-board/$1 | ${2:-$1/} |

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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 · 131 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 2f88581a6ec9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

board-init is a command published in the GitHub repository GhostlyGawd/engineering-board (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,598 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.