setup

A first-time project setup workflow that examines a code repository and helps choose its basic technical structure. It covers areas such as language, testing, formatting, deployment, and project tracking.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure a project for the first time or refresh its setup choices using current repository values as a starting point.
Why use it?
It avoids making setup decisions from a fixed questionnaire when the repository already provides useful clues. Unclear choices are shown with options and trade-offs before changes are applied.

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/bostonorange/claude-code-framework/setup
Any agent
npx skills add BostonOrange/claude-code-framework --skill setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BostonOrange/claude-code-framework

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,635 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00043 $0.02635
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01318
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00527
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00264

Measured yesterday against content hash 72857a7de138, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

setup scanned grade B with 2 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 yesterday.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

grep -r '{{' CLAUDE.md .claude/ 2>/dev/null | grep -vE '\.claude/(state|backup)/' | head -20

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Both the detector and applier are *instructed* not to make network calls — no `npm view`, no `gh api`, no `curl`/`wget`/registry queries. The framework's `guardrails.sh` does not enforce this at the harness level (it blo
skills/setup/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup — First-Time Onboarding

setup.sh puts the framework files on disk. /setup makes them fit your project.

The bash installer can only ask the eight questions it was built around. /setup walks 17 layers — language, framework, build, test, type-check, format/lint, persistence, API style, frontend, design system, monorepo, observability, infra, CI/CD, tracker, notification, branch — and uses what's actually in the repo to pre-fill answers. For each layer it can't auto-answer, it shows the options, the tradeoffs, and a recommended default. You pick "default" or pick differently — no research required.

Lifecycle vs /improve: /setup decides shape (first run, or re-baseline). /improve keeps shape in tune as the project grows. They don't overlap — framework-improver-detector reads the ## Layers owned by /setup block in setup-applied.md to build a skip-list at proposal time, and framework-improver-applier re-validates that skip-list at apply time, halting if anything escaped detection.

Usage

/setup                    full onboarding pass; detect → propose → confirm → apply
/setup --refresh          re-run all 17 layers using existing values as the baseline
/setup --layer=<name>     re-run a single layer (e.g., /setup --layer=ci-cd)
/setup --dry-run          detect + propose only; do not apply even after confirmation

Layer names: language, framework, build, test, type-check, format-lint, persistence, api-style, frontend, design-system, monorepo, observability, infra, ci-cd, tracker, notification, branch.

Process

Phase 1: Detect (read-only)

Spawn project-setup-detector:

Run your full process. Inventory the repo, classify greenfield vs brownfield,
walk the 17 layers, and write the proposal to .claude/state/setup-proposal.md
following the schema in your Phase 4. Do not apply changes — you don't have
Edit/Write tools. End with the surface summary.

The detector is read-only by tool restriction (no Edit/Write). It writes only .claude/state/setup-proposal.md (creating .claude/state/ via mkdir -p if missing).

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. yesterday First seen · 180 lines · 43 tokens per session scan B 72857a7de138

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository BostonOrange/claude-code-framework (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 2,635 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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