pp-init

A setup command that creates a standard project-management folder structure for projects with one or more subprojects. It adds planning, documentation, archive, and session-history folders under `.context/project/`.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a project or adding structured planning to an existing one. It supports interactive, description-based, and quiet setup modes.
Why use it?
It gives a project a consistent place for plans and notes, so information is easier to find and continue across coding sessions.

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/unclecode/claude-code-tools/pp-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/unclecode/claude-code-tools
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,336 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 $0.00000 $0.01336
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00668
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00134

Measured yesterday against content hash d52439a5e9ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pp-init 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 yesterday.

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/unclecode-cc-toolkit/commands/pp-init.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Initialize Project Management Structure

Generate a multi-subproject management structure in .context/project/.

Note: For small projects needing only one subproject, use the name "main" as the default.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS

Assets Location

Template files are in ~/.claude/commands/pp-init-assets/templates/:

  • root/ - Root level templates (WORKFLOW.md, PRINCIPLES.md, etc.)
  • subproject/ - Subproject templates

Execution Instructions

Step 1: Parse Arguments

Check for mode:

  • --quiet or -q → Quiet mode
  • Contains text (not flags) → Description mode
  • Empty → Interactive mode

Step 2: Create Directory Structure

# Create root directories
mkdir -p .context/project/prds .context/project/docs .context/project/archive

# Create subproject directories (for each subproject)
mkdir -p .context/project/{subproject}/prds
mkdir -p .context/project/{subproject}/docs
mkdir -p .context/project/{subproject}/archive
mkdir -p .context/project/{subproject}/history

Note: The history/ directory stores ultra-compact session summaries created by /pp-checkpoint.

Step 3: Copy Fixed Templates

These files are copied as-is (no placeholders to fill):

# Copy WORKFLOW.md, PRINCIPLES.md, and LESSONS.md (fully populated)
cp ~/.claude/commands/pp-init-assets/templates/root/WORKFLOW.md .context/project/
cp ~/.claude/commands/pp-init-assets/templates/root/PRINCIPLES.md .context/project/
cp ~/.claude/commands/pp-init-assets/templates/root/LESSONS.md .context/project/

Note: Root level only has WORKFLOW, PRINCIPLES, LESSONS. All tracking files (STATUS, TODO, CHANGELOG, CODEBASE) live in subprojects.

Step 4: Process Template Files

For files with {{PLACEHOLDER}} markers:

  1. Read template from assets
  2. Replace placeholders with collected data
  3. Write to destination

Root templates to process:

  • INDEX.md (combines project overview + active subproject + high-level TODOs + status summary)

Subproject templates to process (for each subproject):

  • INDEX.md
  • STATUS.md
  • TODO.md
  • CHANGELOG.md
  • PRINCIPLES.md (optional - only if different from root)
  • CODEBASE.md
  • LESSONS.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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. yesterday First seen · 165 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d52439a5e9ac

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pp-init is a command published in the GitHub repository unclecode/claude-code-tools (4 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,336 tokens. 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.