project-setup

project-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 16wells/claude-project-setup. It costs 131 tokens per session (5,757 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-folder setup guide for client engagements. It can create a new folder from a template, add the template structure to an existing folder, or rebuild project memory files after work has fallen out of sync.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a client project, bringing an existing folder into the standard structure, or reconciling project notes with Git history and files on disk.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent place for project information and helps restore accurate working state after long sessions or a lost conversation. It uses configured paths instead of assuming where projects live.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/16wells/claude-project-setup/project-setup
Any agent
npx skills add 16wells/claude-project-setup --skill project-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/16wells/claude-project-setup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,757 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 $0.00131 $0.05757
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.02878
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.01151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00576

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8cefe5fb7676, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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 4d 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.

templates/client-project/.claude/skills/project-setup/SKILL.md · 393 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 393 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Setup — Client Folder Scaffolding

This skill handles client engagements. For internal products owned by the practice, use $TEMPLATE_ROOT/templates/internal-product/.claude/skills/project-setup/SKILL.md. For tools (own use, team use, open source), use $TEMPLATE_ROOT/templates/tool/.claude/skills/project-setup/SKILL.md. The three skill files share the same overall structure but differ in vocabulary, prerequisite questions, and which charter file to populate.

This skill handles three situations:

  • Greenfield: The user wants a new client project folder. You copy the template and fill placeholders.
  • Retrofit: An existing project folder needs the template structure added. You merge intelligently — add what's missing, leave existing content alone.
  • Reconcile: An existing folder's memory has drifted from reality (long technical session, thread loss, in-flight state never made it to disk). You rebuild state.md and re-sync the other memory files from git history, the activity log, and on-disk evidence.

Before doing anything, read $TEMPLATE_ROOT/config.local.md first — if it exists, use those values. Otherwise fall back to $TEMPLATE_ROOT/config.md. The .local.md variant is gitignored and holds the user's real paths and identity; config.md is the generic public version. Every path below is expressed relative to those two variables. Do not hardcode anyone's home directory. If the file that was actually read (either .local.md or .md) still contains /REPLACE/WITH/... placeholders, stop and tell the user to fill it first — the repo won't work until they do.

The default template lives at $TEMPLATE_ROOT/templates/client-project/. Additional templates may live as sibling directories under $TEMPLATE_ROOT/templates/. Instantiated projects live at $CLIENTS_ROOT/{client-slug}/.

When to Use

Greenfield triggers:

  • "Set up a new project for [client]"
  • "Scaffold a project folder for [client]"
  • "Start a new client workspace"
  • "Create the folder structure for [new engagement]"

Read the full file on GitHub · 393 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. 4d ago First seen · 393 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8cefe5fb7676

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository 16wells/claude-project-setup (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 5,757 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

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