pace-setup

A setup command for creating a PACE vault in the current folder. A vault is a project folder prepared for storing and using PACE's work-related memory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Collecting basic project and identity details, bootstrapping the vault, and creating the project configuration needed for later PACE tools.
Why use it?
It handles the initial setup when the normal project tools are not yet available in the current session.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jagbanana/pace/pace-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jagbanana/PACE
Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,529 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 $0.00009 $0.01529
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00764
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00306
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00153

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4397af6eec86, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pace-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.

plugin/commands/pace-setup.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The user just typed /pace-setup. They want to bootstrap a PACE vault in the current folder.

Why this command exists. When the pace-memory plugin is installed via Claude Desktop's "Upload Plugin" UI (the only install path today), its MCP server isn't auto-loaded in Claude Code project sessions. That means pace_status, pace_init, and the other pace_* MCP tools aren't available for first-vault setup. This slash command sidesteps that by invoking the plugin's bundled Python CLI directly via Bash. After bootstrap, a project-level .mcp.json gets written and PACE loads normally on the next session start.

Step 1 — Greet and collect identity

Open with this script (adapt lightly to the conversation):

Hi — I'm Claude. Before I scaffold this folder as a PACE vault, three quick questions:

  1. What should I call you?
  2. What name and emoji should I use for myself in this vault? Pick a nickname plus emoji, or say "you pick" and I'll choose one that fits the work, or "just Claude is fine" to skip the personality.
  3. What's the rough nature of the work we'll be doing here?

Wait for the user's answers before doing anything else.

  • If they defer on the emoji ("you pick"), choose one that fits the work: 🧠 memory/research, 📊 analytics, 🚀 launches, 🎨 design, 📝 writing. Tell them which one you chose when you reply so they can object.
  • If they opt out of a nickname ("just Claude is fine"), skip the assistant-identity capture in Step 5b and only sign replies with whatever emoji they chose (or none).

Step 2 — Find the plugin install path

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} is not set in your Bash environment — it's only substituted in .mcp.json files at MCP launch time. Don't use it literally in shell commands; the shell expands it to empty. Find the plugin install yourself:

PLUGIN_ROOT=$(ls -d ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/*/pace-memory 2>/dev/null | head -n 1)
echo "PLUGIN_ROOT=$PLUGIN_ROOT"

Verify the path is non-empty and contains both .claude-plugin/plugin.json and server/. If the glob returns nothing, ask the user where the pace-memory plugin is installed. Use $PLUGIN_ROOT for the rest of this command.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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 · 149 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 4397af6eec86

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pace-setup is a command published in the GitHub repository jagbanana/PACE (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 1,529 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.