new-project-gate

new-project-gate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aka-kika/akakika-skills. It costs 159 tokens per session (1,709 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-build decision process for deciding whether a new app, tool, or code project should exist and what its smallest useful version should be.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before starting a new project to test its value, practicality, and smallest version worth building.
Why use it?
It helps avoid spending time maintaining a project that solves no real problem or has grown larger than necessary.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it before starting a new project to test its value, practicality, and smallest version worth building.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aka-kika/akakika-skills/new-project-gate
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 aka-kika/akakika-skills --skill new-project-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aka-kika/akakika-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 159 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,709 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 $0.00159 $0.01709
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.00855
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00171

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4733b66505fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

new-project-gate 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 12d 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/project-intelligence/new-project-gate/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

New Project Gate

A gate, not a form. Run it before the editor opens.

The job is to kill bad ideas cheaply and let good ones through with their smallest proving cut already named. The failure mode this guards against is sprawl — fast at building the wrong thing is just faster sprawl.

After a project is built and shipped, run it through old-project-audit on the next pass to decide if it earned its keep.

Verdict at a glance

Checkpoint 0 or 1 → KILL Any other [ ]CUT All green or [~]GO
Tool shouldn't exist at all Build smaller, fix the gap first Build the dumbest proving cut

[x] = passed · [ ] = failed · [~] = unsure / needs the human

How to run it

Walk the six checkpoints in order. For each one:

  1. Concise why — one line on what this checkpoint protects against.
  2. 1-2 line answer — verdict for this idea, holding both lenses. If the lenses disagree, say so; that disagreement is the signal.
  3. Mark the check[x] [ ] or [~].

Stop early if checkpoint 0 or 1 fails hard. No point pricing the build of a tool that shouldn't exist.

The checkpoints

0. Deserves to exist as its own tool Standalone thing, or a feature of something already running? Overlap with the catalogue? Is a new surface justified?

  • Agent lens: can an agent already reach this through an existing tool or MCP?
  • Human lens: do I want a separate thing to open and maintain?

1. Real problem Whose problem, how often, what's done today instead?

  • Agent lens: is there a task an agent repeatedly fails at without this, and how often does it come up?
  • Human lens: do I hit this daily and suffer; would I reach for it unprompted next week?

2. Dumbest version that proves it Smallest cut that validates. File-first, no agent layer yet. Ugly is fine.

  • Agent lens: minimum structured surface (files + schema) to drive it.
  • Human lens: minimum UI I'd actually touch within a week.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 12d ago First seen · 136 lines · 159 tokens per session scan A 4733b66505fc

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new-project-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository aka-kika/akakika-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 159 tokens to every session and 1,709 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 2026-08-31.

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