newproject

newproject is a skill for Claude Code from cabaynes/charles-claude-skills. It costs 101 tokens per session (3,414 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for starting a new software project in a configured workspace, including project documentation and optional Git setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating or finishing a project folder, adding starter documentation and memory folders, and optionally initializing or connecting a GitHub repository.
Why use it?
It avoids repeatedly preparing the same basic project files and workspace structure by hand.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/alice/projects.

Good fit Creating or finishing a project folder, adding starter documentation and memory folders, and optionally initializing or connecting a GitHub repository.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,414 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.
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 $0.00101 $0.03414
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01707
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00683
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00341

Measured 2d ago against content hash 256efe1dffb4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

newproject 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 2d 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/newproject/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/newproject — Bootstrap or finish setting up a workspace project

The user wants to start a project under their workspace directory $WORKSPACE_DIR (default ~/projects/). The folder may not exist yet OR it may already exist with partial setup (e.g., they did mkdir $WORKSPACE_DIR/foo and code $WORKSPACE_DIR/foo already). Your job: detect what's in place and create only what's missing — never overwrite existing user content.

What ends up created

  1. $WORKSPACE_DIR/<name>/ — empty project directory
  2. $WORKSPACE_DIR/<name>/CLAUDE.md — starter project documentation (stub)
  3. ~/.claude/projects/<project-slug>/memory/ — memory dir (with universal-symlink fan-out if a fanout-memory.sh helper exists in $WORKSPACE_DIR/scripts/)
  4. Optional: $WORKSPACE_DIR/<name>/.git/ — initialized git repo with sensible .gitignore
  5. Optional: a GitHub repo (private by default) with origin set and a bootstrap commit pushed — plus any web-session skills copied into $WORKSPACE_DIR/<name>/.claude/skills/ if your workspace keeps a scripts/web-skills/ source (private repos only)
  6. Optional: updated $WORKSPACE_DIR/CLAUDE.md — if an umbrella file exists with a ## Subprojects section, append an entry

Step 1 — Resolve WORKSPACE_DIR

Check the env var:

echo "${WORKSPACE_DIR:-}"
  • If set, use that path (expand ~ if present).
  • If unset, ask the user once via AskUserQuestion:

    "WORKSPACE_DIR isn't set. Default is ~/projects/. Use that, or specify a different path?" Options: Use ~/projects/ | Use a different path (free-text)

  • After resolution, recommend (don't enforce) that the user export it in their shell rc so they don't have to set it each session.

For the rest of this skill, $WORKSPACE_DIR is the resolved absolute path (e.g. /Users/alice/projects).

Step 2 — Get the project name and one-line description

If the user provided a name as an argument, use it. Otherwise ask:

"What's the project name? (lowercase, hyphens for spaces, no special characters — e.g., tax-tracking, family-recipes)"

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2d ago Changed 256efe1dffb4
  2. 10d ago First seen · 296 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 025baaf85e28

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newproject is a skill published in the GitHub repository cabaynes/charles-claude-skills (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 3,414 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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