knowledge-bootstrap

knowledge-bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code from ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst-plugin. It costs 78 tokens per session (3,141 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-start routine that loads saved information about your data, settings, user profile, past analyses, and corrections. It also checks whether the knowledge files needed for analysis exist.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when beginning a session, after connecting data, or after switching datasets so the analysis context is refreshed.
Why use it?
It prevents each session from starting without the context built up in earlier work. Missing files do not stop the session.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ai-analyst-plus plugin — 44 skills, 1 command, 13 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when beginning a session, after connecting data, or after switching datasets so the analysis context is refreshed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst-plugin/knowledge-bootstrap
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst-plugin --skill knowledge-bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-analyst-plus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 1 command, 13 agents.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,141 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00078 $0.03141
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.01256
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00628
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00314

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f917e6289aea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

knowledge-bootstrap 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 1mo 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.

ai-analyst-plus/skills/knowledge-bootstrap/SKILL.md · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The full tree this skill creates is defined in docs/KNOWLEDGE.md (the .knowledge contract). Create exactly that layout.

Skill: Knowledge Bootstrap

Purpose

Initialize all 7 knowledge subsystems for a new session. Loads setup state, dataset, user profile, integrations, org context, corrections, learnings, query archaeology, and analysis archive into working memory.

When to Use

  • At the start of any session
  • After /connect-data or /switch-dataset
  • When the system detects missing or stale knowledge files

Instructions

Load each subsystem in order. Every file read MUST gracefully degrade: if the file does not exist, skip silently and note "not yet populated" in the summary. Never block the session on a missing subsystem.

Step 1: Setup State

Read .knowledge/setup-state.yaml.

  • Parse setup_complete and count phases with status: "complete".
  • If setup_complete: false, note the incomplete phases; offer /connect-data for data connections and a rerun of this skill for the memory tree.
  • If missing: Note "Setup: not initialized" and continue (this file is optional; connect-data and this skill do the actual setup).

Step 2: Active Dataset

Read .knowledge/active.yaml.

  • If active_dataset is null or missing, note "No active dataset" and continue.
  • Resolve the context source first. Read .knowledge/context-source.yaml. If it exists and says source: git, sync the team's communal context repo: clone the repo it names into the cache dir (its cache value, default .knowledge/.context-cache) if not already cloned, otherwise fetch + checkout + pull the ref (default main); then ctx_dir is {cache}/{dataset_path} (default datasets/{active}) and the source is "git". If the file is missing or says source: local, ctx_dir is the in-folder .knowledge/datasets/{active}/ and the source is "local". Load the dataset knowledge (semantic/, metrics/, schema.md, quirks.md) from ctx_dir either way - the same loader, the source just differs. Report the source ("context: local" or "context: team repo @ {ref}") in the readiness summary.
  • Load from ctx_dir:

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 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. 1mo ago First seen · 254 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A f917e6289aea

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knowledge-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst-plugin (33 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 3,141 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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