setup-system

A guided setup command for creating a new Johnny.Decimal filing system, an organized folder structure based on numbered areas and categories. It can also create the system’s index and starter task files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create single- or multi-system structures, define areas and categories, optionally add initial IDs, generate the JDex, and initialize task and processing-log files.
Why use it?
It removes the work of designing the initial folder tree and standard files by hand, while letting you review the result before using it.

Command

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/ngerakines/jd/setup-system
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ngerakines/jd
Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 334 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 $0.00016 $0.00334
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00167
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00033

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4df478b16d75, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-system 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.

jd/commands/setup-system.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Set Up a Johnny.Decimal System

Create a new Johnny.Decimal system from scratch — folders, standard zeros, and initial JDex.

Arguments

No required arguments. The command will walk the user through an interactive setup process.

Workflow

  1. Ask whether this is a single-system or multi-system setup.
  2. Gather system identity: code (if multi-system), name, and root location.
  3. Define areas: Walk through area definitions (max 10 including 00-09).
  4. Define categories: For each area, define categories (max 10 per area).
  5. Define initial IDs: Optionally pre-create ID folders within categories.
  6. Create structure: Build all folders on disk.
  7. Generate JDex: Write the complete index at 00.00 JDex.md.
  8. Initialize files: Create 00.02 Tasks.md and 00.03 Processing log.md.
  9. Verify: Display the complete folder tree for user review.

Templates

Offer starting templates for common system types:

  • Personal life: Home, family, money, health, projects, travel, hobbies
  • Work: System/employment, primary work domain, career, visibility
  • Child/dependent: Identity, school, health, activities

Examples

/jd:setup-system
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 · 42 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 4df478b16d75

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-system is a command published in the GitHub repository ngerakines/jd (7 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 334 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 2026-08-31.