A command that creates or fills an Obsidian vault, a folder of linked notes, with documentation about a code project. It also checks existing project documents for claims that may no longer be true.

Use it to document an unfamiliar project, build a project knowledge base, and find stale statements in files such as README or architecture notes.

It gives a new contributor a structured view of the codebase and highlights outdated documentation. It asks for confirmation because the process uses substantial computing time.

kb-init — Command for Claude Code by waelmas/codeplow

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add waelmas/codeplow

Claude Code

/plugin install obsidian-kb

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install obsidian-kb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 8 commands.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/waelmas/codeplow/kb-init/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/waelmas/codeplow/kb-init)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/waelmas/codeplow/kb-init"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/waelmas/codeplow/kb-init/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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 190 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00032	$0.00190
Opus 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00076
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00006	$0.00038
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00019

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 6b1cada38e23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kb-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 2mo 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.

obsidian-kb/commands/kb-init.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

/kb-init

Trigger the kb-init skill. Read the instructions from ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/kb-init/SKILL.md in this plugin and follow them exactly.

This is the full initialization flow: if the project has no vault yet, it runs kb-scaffold first (with user confirmation), then proceeds to analyze the codebase via parallel subagents and write curated documentation notes - including a Documentation Audit that flags stale claims in existing project markdown.

Always ask for user confirmation before proceeding - this uses meaningful compute and takes a few minutes.

User arguments: $ARGUMENTS

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.

2mo ago First seen · 16 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 6b1cada38e23

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kb-init is a command published in the GitHub repository waelmas/codeplow (8 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 190 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Writing and docs

kb-init next to 6 commands from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
kb-initwaelmas/codeplow	Command	8	6mo ago	MIT	A	32	Claude Code
checklistgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
clarifygithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	27	Claude Code
specifygithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
analyzegithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	26	Claude Code
convergegithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	35	Claude Code
implementgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	14	Claude Code