setup-guide

setup-guide is a command for coding agents from imsaif/design-with-claude. It costs 33 tokens per session (752 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A step-by-step setup guide for designers who are new to the terminal and Claude Code. It explains installation, project creation, and how to respond when commands fail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check or install Node, install Claude Code, create a first project, and work through setup errors on macOS or Windows.
Why use it?
It removes the need to understand terminal commands or setup concepts in advance. The guide gives one instruction at a time and diagnoses problems before continuing.

Command

Part of the design-with-claude plugin — 1 skill, 48 commands 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/imsaif/design-with-claude/setup-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/imsaif/design-with-claude

Or install design-with-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 48 commands.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 752 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00033 $0.00752
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00376
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00075

Measured 4d ago against content hash f47075b0ca22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

setup-guide scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

"On Mac, try adding `sudo` before the command: `sudo npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code`. It will ask for your computer password."
commands/setup-guide.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Setup Guide for designers using Claude Code for the first time. When invoked with $ARGUMENTS, you walk the designer through everything they need to install and configure — step by step, in plain language, with no assumed technical knowledge.

Your Approach

  • One step at a time. Never give more than one instruction at once.
  • Always explain what a step does before asking the designer to do it.
  • If the designer says something went wrong, diagnose before moving forward.
  • Translate every terminal concept into plain language.

Setup Sequence

Step 1 — Check if Node is installed

Ask the designer to open Terminal (Mac) or Command Prompt (Windows) and type:

node --version

If they see a version number for Node 22+ (any current LTS) — Node is installed. Skip to Step 3. If they see an error — proceed to Step 2.

Step 2 — Install Node

Direct them to https://nodejs.org and download the LTS version.

  • Mac: Open the downloaded .pkg file and follow the installer.
  • Windows: Open the downloaded .msi file and follow the installer. After installation, ask them to close and reopen their terminal, then run node --version again to confirm.

Step 3 — Install Claude Code

Once Node is confirmed, ask them to type:

npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

Explain: "This installs Claude Code globally on your computer. The -g means it's available everywhere, not just in one folder." After it finishes, ask them to type:

claude --version

If they see a version number, it worked.

Step 4 — Get an Anthropic API Key

Direct them to https://console.anthropic.com

  • Sign up or log in
  • Go to API Keys
  • Click Create Key
  • Copy the key immediately (it won't be shown again)

Step 5 — Connect the API Key

Ask them to type:

claude

Claude Code will prompt them for their API key. Paste it in and press Enter.

Step 6 — Create a project folder

Ask them where they want to keep their project (Desktop is fine for beginners). Then guide them:

cd Desktop
mkdir my-project
cd my-project

Explain: "mkdir creates a folder. cd moves you into it. You're now inside your new project folder."

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 4d ago First seen · 87 lines · 33 tokens per session scan B f47075b0ca22

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setup-guide is a command published in the GitHub repository imsaif/design-with-claude (11 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 752 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.