bootstrap

bootstrap is a command for GitHub Copilot from microsoft/PromptKit. It costs 8 tokens per session (30 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that starts a PromptKit prompt-assembly session. Prompt assembly means putting the parts of an instruction for an AI system together in a structured way.

In plain words
What is it for?
Beginning work on assembling prompts with PromptKit.
Why use it?
It provides a defined starting point for building prompts instead of beginning the process manually.

Command for GitHub Copilot ✓ vendor

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot chat mode or prompt. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

Good fit Beginning work on assembling prompts with PromptKit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/microsoft/promptkit/bootstrap
About the project

PromptKit is a version-controlled library of reusable prompt components for engineering work, including personas, reasoning protocols, output formats, and task templates. Engineers use it to create repeatable prompts for activities such as specification work, debugging, code review, security audits, and change management across multiple engineering fields. The catalogue add-ons provide agent workflows for using this prompt-engineering system.

microsoft/PromptKit · 105 stars · on GitHub

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/PromptKit

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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.

agentmods badge for bootstrap

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/microsoft/promptkit/bootstrap/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/microsoft/promptkit/bootstrap)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/microsoft/promptkit/bootstrap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/microsoft/promptkit/bootstrap/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for bootstrap

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/microsoft/promptkit/bootstrap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/microsoft/promptkit/bootstrap.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 30 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 $0.00008 $0.00030
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00015
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00006
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00003

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9d05d0af773b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-19, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bootstrap 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 5d 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.

.github/prompts/bootstrap.prompt.md · 6 lines

What it actually says

Read and execute bootstrap.md.

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. 5d ago First seen · 6 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 9d05d0af773b

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bootstrap is a command published in the GitHub repository microsoft/PromptKit (105 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 30 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 2026-09-14.