create-project

A workflow that creates a new project folder with a standard README and status-tracking files. The supplied project name is converted to lowercase kebab-case, such as my-new-project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting a project, recording its goals and current status, listing key files, and tracking initial next steps.
Why use it?
It gives new projects a consistent starting structure and checks the project index for duplicates before creating anything.

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/abilityai/abilities/create-project
Any agent
npx skills add Abilityai/abilities --skill create-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/abilities

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 552 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 $0.00012 $0.00552
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00276
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00055

Measured yesterday against content hash 2194b0abefb4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-project 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.

plugins/agent-dev/memory-templates/workspace/create-project/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Project

Create a new project folder with standard tracking structure.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS - The project name (will be converted to kebab-case)

Step 1: Validate Project Name

Convert to kebab-case:

  • "My New Project" → "my-new-project"
  • Remove special characters
  • Lowercase

Step 2: Check for Duplicates

Read projects/PROJECT_INDEX.md and check if project exists.

If exists:

  • Warn user
  • Ask if they want to open existing project instead

Step 3: Create Project Structure

mkdir -p "projects/$PROJECT_NAME"

Step 4: Create README.md

Write projects/$PROJECT_NAME/README.md:

# Project: [Project Name]

**Created**: [Today's date]
**Status**: active

## Overview

[Description to be filled in]

## Goals

- [ ] Define project goals

## Key Files

(none yet)

## Related

- Links to related projects or resources

Step 5: Create STATUS.md

Write projects/$PROJECT_NAME/STATUS.md:

# Status: [Project Name]

**Current Status**: active
**Last Updated**: [Today's date]

## Current Focus

Project just created - define initial scope and goals.

## Next Steps

1. [ ] Define project scope
2. [ ] Identify key deliverables
3. [ ] Create initial files

## Blockers

None

## Progress Log

- [Today's date]: Project created

Step 6: Create DECISIONS.md

Write projects/$PROJECT_NAME/DECISIONS.md:

# Decisions: [Project Name]

Log of significant decisions with context and rationale.

## Decision Log

| Date | Decision | Rationale | Outcome |
|------|----------|-----------|---------|
| [Today] | Created project | [reason] | Project initialized |

Step 7: Update Project Index

Append to projects/PROJECT_INDEX.md:

| [project-name] | active | [Today] | [Today] | [Brief description] |

Step 8: Report

Tell user:

  • Project created at projects/[name]/
  • README.md, STATUS.md, DECISIONS.md initialized
  • Update README.md with project details
  • Update STATUS.md as you work

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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 · 125 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 2194b0abefb4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/abilities (11 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 552 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 2026-08-30.

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