coding-setup

coding-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from a2ngerer/claude_onboarding_agent. It costs 53 tokens per session (3,251 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup process for using Claude Code in software development. It configures an iterative workflow—brainstorming, planning, delegated work, review, and commits—and creates project guidance files for the detected technology stack.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure a development repository and generate or update CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and settings.json without overwriting existing guidance.
Why use it?
It gives Claude consistent project instructions and a repeatable way to work through coding tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the claude-onboarding-agent plugin — 16 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/a2ngerer/claude_onboarding_agent/coding-setup
Any agent
npx skills add a2ngerer/claude_onboarding_agent --skill coding-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a2ngerer/claude_onboarding_agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-onboarding-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,251 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 $0.00053 $0.03251
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01625
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00650
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00325

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4aaff557222c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coding-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 3d 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.

skills/coding-setup/SKILL.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Coding Setup

This skill sets up Claude Code for professional software development using a proven iterative workflow.

Handoff context: Read skills/_shared/consume-handoff.md and run it with the handoff block (if any). The helper guarantees the following locals: detected_language, existing_claude_md, inferred_use_case, repo_signals, graphify_candidate. Use detected_language for all user-facing prose; generated file content stays in English.

Existing CLAUDE.md: If existing_claude_md: true, DO NOT overwrite it. Append a new delimited section at the end of the file:

<!-- onboarding-agent:start setup=coding skill=coding-setup section=claude-md -->
## Claude Onboarding Agent — Coding Setup
...generated content...
<!-- onboarding-agent:end -->

If the delimited block already exists from a previous run, replace only the content between the markers; leave the rest of the file untouched. Use the same marker pattern (# onboarding-agent: coding — start / — end) around generated .gitignore blocks so /upgrade-setup can refresh them non-destructively.

Supporting Files

Read these on-demand at the step that invokes them. Do not read eagerly.

  • skills/_shared/consume-handoff.md — orchestrator handoff parse + inline fallback (preamble, before Step 1)
  • skills/_shared/offer-superpowers.md — canonical Superpowers opt-in and install (Step 1)
  • skills/_shared/offer-github-mcp.md — canonical GitHub MCP offer (Step 4)
  • skills/_shared/offer-graphify.md — canonical Graphify opt-in (Step 7)
  • skills/_shared/gitignore-python.md, skills/_shared/gitignore-node.md, skills/_shared/gitignore-common.md — canonical .gitignore blocks (Step 5)

Step 1: Install Dependencies

Read skills/_shared/offer-superpowers.md and run it with skill_slug: coding-setup, mandatory: true. The helper delegates to skills/_shared/installation-protocol.md and sets superpowers_installed, superpowers_scope, superpowers_method.

Step 2: Context Questions

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 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. 3d ago First seen · 255 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 4aaff557222c

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coding-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository a2ngerer/claude_onboarding_agent (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 3,251 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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