claude-code-kickstart

A Claude Code project-settings file that defines actions to run when a session starts, a prompt is submitted, tools are used, or the agent stops.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure project hooks, allowed tools, and the selected Claude Code model.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent repeatable project routines, such as loading context, checking work, and recording signals, instead of relying on memory.

Settings file for Claude Code

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 settings/codeverbojan/claude-code-kickstart/settings
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codeverbojan/claude-code-kickstart

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

claude-code-kickstart scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

"Bash(curl:*)",
.claude/settings.json · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{
  "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/claude-code-settings.json",
  "model": "opusplan",
  "hooks": {
    "SessionStart": [
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/session-primer.sh",
            "statusMessage": "Loading project context..."
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "UserPromptSubmit": [
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/habits-coach.sh",
            "timeout": 3
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "Stop": [
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/verify-gate.sh",
            "timeout": 5
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "PostToolUse": [
      {
        "matcher": "Bash",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/capture-signal.sh",
            "async": true,
            "timeout": 10
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "PreToolUse": [
      {
        "matcher": "Edit|Write",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "printf '%s' '{\"hookSpecificOutput\":{\"hookEventName\":\"PreToolUse\",\"additionalContext\":\"REMINDER: Did you Read this file in this conversation turn? Edit fails silently on stale content. Re-read before editing.\"}}'",
            "timeout": 2
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "worktree": {
    "symlinkDirectories": [
      "node_modules",
      ".pnpm-store"
    ]
  },
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "Bash(ls:*)",
      "Bash(mkdir:*)",
      "Bash(cp:*)",
      "Bash(mv:*)",
      "Bash(git:*)",
      "Bash(git *)",
      "Bash(npm:*)",
      "Bash(npm *)",
      "Bash(pnpm:*)",
      "Bash(pnpm *)",
      "Bash(npx:*)",
      "Bash(npx *)",
      "Bash(yarn:*)",
      "Bash(yarn *)",
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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 · 113 lines scan A 79dd35138b31

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-code-kickstart is a settings file published in the GitHub repository codeverbojan/claude-code-kickstart (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.