project-init

project-init is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AmanKtyr/Tailor. It costs 30 tokens per session (853 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided setup process for starting a software project, including product questions, technology choices, an assessment of developer experience, and architecture decision records. An architecture decision record is a short note explaining an important technical choice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a new project’s users, platform, expected scale, data storage, deployment method, technology stack, and initial architecture decisions.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of choosing unsuitable tools or writing code before the product’s needs and technical constraints are clear.

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/amanktyr/tailor/project-init
Any agent
npx skills add AmanKtyr/Tailor --skill project-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AmanKtyr/Tailor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 853 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 $0.00030 $0.00853
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00426
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00085

Measured 3d ago against content hash b4a5789dc657, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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 3d 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-init/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Initialization Skill

Activate this skill when bootstrapping a new project from scratch, establishing architectural baselines, or executing /init-project.

Operational Directive: Never write code before establishing product scope, technical requirements, and developer expertise.


1. Product Discovery Questionnaire

Before recommending or installing any framework, gather critical product invariants:

  1. Target Product & Core Value Proposition: What is being built, what core problem does it solve, and who are the primary users?
  2. Platform & Modality: Public SaaS, internal dashboard, mobile API, desktop application, or developer CLI?
  3. Scale & Traffic Expectations: Prototype / MVP, internal team tool (<100 users), or high-throughput multi-tenant production system?
  4. Data Model & Concurrency: Relational data (PostgreSQL/MySQL), document-based (MongoDB), key-value cache (Redis), or embedded (SQLite)?
  5. Deployment & Runtime Constraints: Serverless (Vercel/Cloudflare Workers), containerized cluster (Docker/Kubernetes), single VPS, or static hosting?

2. Developer Expertise Matrix

Assess the developer's familiarity level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert):

  • Languages: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, C#, PHP, Java
  • Frontend Frameworks: Next.js (App Router), React (SPA), Vue / Nuxt, SvelteKit, Vanilla HTML/CSS
  • Backend Frameworks: Express / Fastify, NestJS, Django / FastAPI, Go Gin / Echo, ASP.NET Core, Laravel
  • Databases & ORMs: Prisma, Drizzle, TypeORM, SQLAlchemy, Django ORM, Entity Framework Core, Raw SQL

Rule: Never recommend a complex, unfamiliar stack for an urgent MVP if a well-understood, robust alternative achieves the goal in half the time.


3. Technology Stack Recommendation Matrix

Project Archetype Recommended Stack Key Rationale
Full-Stack SaaS / Web App Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS + PostgreSQL + Prisma/Drizzle Unified language, fast server-side rendering, robust ORM, rapid UI iterations
High-Performance API Service Go (net/http + Gin) OR FastAPI (Python) + PostgreSQL + Redis High concurrency, low memory footprint, strict typing, auto-generated OpenAPI
Data Science / ML Backend Python + FastAPI + PyTorch / Scikit-learn + PostgreSQL + Celery/Redis Native ML ecosystem support, async performance, robust data processing
Enterprise Internal Tool Next.js + React + shadcn/ui + PostgreSQL + Supabase / Auth.js Rapid scaffolding, enterprise UI primitives, integrated authentication
Fast Developer CLI Tool Node.js (TypeScript + Commander + Picocolors) OR Rust (Clap) Zero-config distribution via npx, fast startup, deterministic execution
Micro-Service / Embedded Go OR Rust + SQLite / PostgreSQL Zero runtime dependencies, single static binary, instant cold start

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 3d ago First seen · 61 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A b4a5789dc657

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project-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository AmanKtyr/Tailor (3 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 853 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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