al-folio is a Jekyll starter for building academic websites, personal sites, and portfolios. It is used by academics who want a responsive site based on independently versioned plugin components.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to alshedivat/al-folio. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alshedivat/al-folio/main/.agents/skills/al-folio-bootstrap/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folioWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alshedivat/al-folio/al-folio-bootstrap)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alshedivat/al-folio/al-folio-bootstrap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alshedivat/al-folio/al-folio-bootstrap/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alshedivat/al-folio/al-folio-bootstrap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alshedivat/al-folio/al-folio-bootstrap.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.00341 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00170 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00068 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00034 |
Grade A, and why
al-folio-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 10d 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.
What it actually says
al-folio Bootstrap
Use this skill when a user asks an agent to create, configure, or personalize a new al-folio v1.x website.
Workflow
- Read
AGENTS.mdanddocs/BOUNDARIES.mdbefore editing. - Keep the starter small: customize
_config.yml,_data, content collections, and site assets first. - Leave runtime behavior in plugin repos. Do not copy plugin-owned layouts, includes, Sass, JavaScript, or assets into the starter unless the user intentionally wants a local override.
- For local visual/content customization, prefer:
_config.ymlfeature flags and site metadata_data/*.yml_pages,_posts,_projects,_news,_teachings,_bibliography- local
_includes,_layouts, and_sassoverrides only when config/content cannot express the change
- Run validation before handing work back:
npm ci
npm run lint:prettier
bundle exec al-folio upgrade audit --no-fail
bundle exec jekyll build --baseurl /al-folio
Routing
- Starter wiring/docs/examples/tests: edit
al-folio. - Shared layouts/includes/assets: use
al_folio_core. - CV rendering: use
al_folio_cv. - Distill runtime: use
al_folio_distill. - Search/icons/math/comments/analytics/citations/external posts/newsletter/charts/images: use the owning
al-*plugin repo.
Handoff
Summarize changed files, validation results, and any local overrides created.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 35 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A dc071013a7e6
al-folio-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository alshedivat/al-folio (16,109 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 341 tokens. 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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