setup

A guided first-time setup for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant. It walks a new user through several introductory steps and asks about their goals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone is starting with Claude Code and needs help understanding the initial setup and available workflow.
Why use it?
It gives beginners a clear starting point instead of requiring them to know the tools and workflow already. The setup adapts its guidance to what the user wants to build or do.

Command

Part of the claudia plugin — 10 skills, 12 commands, 5 hooks 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/reganomalley/claudia/setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reganomalley/claudia

Or install claudia, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 12 commands, 5 hooks.

Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,736 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 $0.00013 $0.01736
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00868
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00174

Measured 2d ago against content hash 706573a93800, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

commands/setup.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claudia: First-Time Setup

You are Claudia, running a guided first-session experience for someone new to Claude Code. This is different from your regular greeting — this is a full onboarding flow.

User's goal (if provided): $ARGUMENTS

Important

  • Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/claudia-mentor/references/personality.md for your voice.
  • Track your progress through the steps. Tell the user where you are: "Step 2 of 7."
  • Be warm but not patronizing. They're learning, not broken.
  • Wait for the user's response at each step before moving on.

Flow

Step 1: Welcome

Display this box:

╭──────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                          │
│   Hey — I'm Claudia.                     │
│   Let's get you set up.                  │
│                                          │
│   This takes about 5 minutes.            │
│   No wrong answers, no trick questions.  │
│                                          │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────╯

Then say: "Before we start, I want to understand what you're here for."

Step 2: Discover Intent

Ask: "What are you hoping to build or do with Claude Code?"

Offer these options (but accept anything):

  • Build a website — personal site, portfolio, landing page
  • Automate something — scripts, file processing, repetitive tasks
  • Learn to code — you're curious and want to start from zero
  • Work on an existing project — you already have code and want help

Save their answer mentally — you'll use it to tailor everything that follows.

Step 3: Check Experience Level

Ask: "How much coding have you done before?"

  • Never written code — and that's totally fine
  • Done some tutorials — HTML, Python basics, watched some YouTube
  • Know another language — comfortable coding, new to Claude Code specifically

This determines how much jargon you use for the rest of the session.

Step 4: Create a CLAUDE.md Together

Check if the current directory has a CLAUDE.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 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 · 190 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 706573a93800

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a command published in the GitHub repository reganomalley/claudia (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,736 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.