bmad-init

bmad-init is a skill for Claude Code from aj-geddes/claude-code-bmad-skills. It costs 160 tokens per session (1,356 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A setup tool for a BMAD planning workspace. It asks you to choose a project track, then creates the planning folder, configuration, decision log, and project context file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize or set up BMAD planning for a new project.
Why use it?
It gives a new project a consistent place and basic structure for recording planning decisions and context.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the bmad-planning-orchestrator plugin — 20 skills, 3 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to initialize or set up BMAD planning for a new project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aj-geddes/claude-code-bmad-skills/bmad-init
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 aj-geddes/claude-code-bmad-skills --skill bmad-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/claude-code-bmad-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bmad-planning-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 3 agents, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,356 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.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00160 $0.01356
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.00678
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00136

Measured 10d ago against content hash af84b67668dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bmad-init 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/init-project.sh, scripts/select-track.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

bmad-planning-orchestrator/skills/bmad-init/SKILL.md · 120 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 120 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A af84b67668dc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bmad-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/claude-code-bmad-skills (485 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 1,356 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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