setup

An interactive setup command for preparing a C and C++ development environment with clangd and related tools. It installs or checks tools such as LLVM, CMake, cppcheck, clang-format, and clang-tidy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install dependencies, verify versions, generate `compile_commands.json` for CMake or Make projects, and enable language-server support in Claude Code.
Why use it?
It gathers the installation and configuration steps needed for code intelligence and automated checks in one guided setup.

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/zircote/cpp-lsp/setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote/cpp-lsp
Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 266 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 $0.00010 $0.00266
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00133
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00027

Measured yesterday against content hash be867a0cf223, 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 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.

commands/setup.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

C/C++ LSP Setup

This command will configure your C/C++ development environment with clangd LSP and essential tools.

Installation Steps

1. Install LLVM (includes clangd)

macOS (Homebrew):

brew install llvm

Add to PATH:

echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

2. Install Additional Tools

# Static analysis
brew install cppcheck

# CMake (for compile_commands.json generation)
brew install cmake

3. Verify Installation

clangd --version
clang-format --version
clang-tidy --version
cppcheck --version

4. Generate compile_commands.json

For CMake projects:

cmake -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON -B build
ln -s build/compile_commands.json .

For Make projects:

brew install bear
bear -- make

5. Enable LSP in Claude Code

export ENABLE_LSP_TOOL=1
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 · 66 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A be867a0cf223

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a command published in the GitHub repository zircote/cpp-lsp (6 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 266 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.