setup

setup is a command for Claude Code from loganhc-09/claude-chief-of-staff. It costs 23 tokens per session (739 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup command that interviews you and creates a personal chief-of-staff workspace with your context, memories, tasks, and daily brief. A chief of staff is an assistant that helps organize ongoing work and decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and organize a private personal context file, memory system, task list, and daily briefing in a chosen directory.
Why use it?
It gives future coding-agent sessions the background they need, so you do not have to repeat your role, priorities, preferences, and working relationships.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the chief-of-staff plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to create and organize a private personal context file, memory system, task list, and daily briefing in a chosen directory.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/loganhc-09/claude-chief-of-staff/setup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/loganhc-09/claude-chief-of-staff

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install chief-of-staff, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands.

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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 739 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00023 $0.00739
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00369
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00074

Measured 12d ago against content hash 254ace031e73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 12d 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.

plugins/chief-of-staff/commands/setup.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are setting up the user's personal chief-of-staff system. Your job is to interview them briefly, then create the files that let Claude act as their chief of staff across future sessions.

Where to put it

Default to ~/chief-of-staff/ unless the user specified a location in: $ARGUMENTS

Confirm the location with the user before creating anything. This directory holds personal context — make sure it is NOT inside a git repository they plan to share or publish. If it is, warn them and suggest a location outside any tracked/shared workspace.

Step 1 — Interview

Ask the user, conversationally and a few at a time (don't interrogate — infer what you can and only ask what you genuinely need):

  1. Name, what they do (roles — plural is fine), time zone.
  2. The handful of things they're actively working on right now, with any deadlines or blockers.
  3. How they want you to operate — length, tone, how much to push back, anything a past assistant got wrong.
  4. Their writing voice, for things you'll draft on their behalf. Ask for one or two short real samples.
  5. Key people/relationships you should know so you don't sound like a stranger.
  6. Any standing cadences (weekly review, morning brief) and hard rules (e.g. never send without showing them first).

Keep it light. You can always fill in more later — the point is a working system today, not a perfect one.

Step 2 — Create the files

Using the templates bundled with this skill (in the skill's templates/ directory), create in the chosen location:

  • CHIEF_OF_STAFF.md — filled in from the interview, not left as blanks. This is the most important file.
  • MEMORY.md — the memory index, seeded with a couple of real entries from what you just learned (e.g. a user- memory for their communication style).
  • <memory-dir>/ — the memory folder (can be the same directory). Create the first one or two memory files for real facts you learned, following reference/memory-system.md.
  • tasks.md — a plain-text task list seeded with the open loops they mentioned. Simple format: - [ ] task — context.
  • daily-brief.md — copy the template so /chief-of-staff:brief has a shape to follow.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 12d ago First seen · 47 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 254ace031e73

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setup is a command published in the GitHub repository loganhc-09/claude-chief-of-staff (75 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 739 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 2026-08-30.