project-init

project-init is a skill for Claude Code from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 309 tokens per session (16,002 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup command that detects whether a repository uses JavaScript or TypeScript, Python, C#, or Java, then inventories and installs missing development tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting the dev-team toolchain in a repository and installing repository-level analysis and testing tools.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of identifying the project's stack and preparing its static-analysis toolchain.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /home/user/agentic-dev-team/CLAUDE.md.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting the dev-team toolchain in a repository and installing repository-level analysis and testing tools.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add bdfinst/agentic-dev-team
Claude Code
/plugin install dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 309 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 16,002 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00309 $0.16002
Opus 5.5 $0.00124 $0.06401
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00062 $0.03200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00031 $0.01600

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9e00d60ec3d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-init scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Asks the agent to reveal its instructionslowSystem prompt leakage

Directions to print, repeat or translate the system prompt extract configuration the operator did not intend to expose.

run — it is not a "print instructions and leave it to the user" step (issues

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/dev-team/skills/project-init/SKILL.md · 1,188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Initializer

One command to get a repository ready for the dev-team toolchain, whatever the stack. Detect the project's language(s), inventory the static-analysis tools already present, confirm a three-column plan, then install only the missing tools — lane tools and Playwright always repo-level, never user-level or global. It then installs the detection-gated capability tools other skills depend on (semgrep, Playwright, adr, gh, docker scanners — see Step 4b), which are user/system-level CLIs by nature.

Supported stacks: JS/TS, Python, C#, Java — the four lanes registered in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/static-analysis-integration/references/tool-configs.md § Build-time lanes. Tool facts (choice, versions, install mechanism) follow that registry; provider-binding semantics (capability slots, ordered provider lists, bind-don't-replace, the qualification contract) follow ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/build/references/static-self-heal.md. The manual commands stay documented in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/static-analysis-integration/references/language-setup.md; this skill automates them.

Arguments

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

  • --yes: Run unattended — auto-confirm each gate below with its safe default and never wait for input. /setup --yes passes this through.
  • --force: Bypass Step 0's idempotency short-circuit and force the full Step 1-6 sequence even when .claude/init-state.json records a matching last_run (#1778). Independent of --yes — combine them to force a full unattended re-check.

--yes semantics

Affirmative (auto-confirm, no prompt):

  • Step 3 three-column plan — proceed: install the "missing and will add" column's defaults, repo-level. Existing configs are still never overwritten (that is already the plan's contract, not a prompt).
  • Step 4b capability tools — install every tool whose detection signal fired and that is still missing. Tools whose signal did not fire are still not installed.
  • Step 4c CodeGraph — install if missing (its recommended default is already yes, as part of the interactive keyless-pair prompt — see Step 4c). CodeGraph never writes to the repo, so it stays in this bucket. Repowise, offered alongside it in the same interactive prompt, does not stay here — see the Conservative bucket below (#1690).

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,188 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 1mo ago First seen · 1,188 lines · 309 tokens per session scan A 9e00d60ec3d8

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project-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (295 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 309 tokens to every session and 16,002 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (asks the agent to reveal its instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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