textbook-init

textbook-init is a skill for Claude Code from cabbage2000-lab/textbook-writer-skills. It costs 155 tokens per session (1,650 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup assistant for starting a textbook project or a workspace for several textbooks. It asks about the project, creates the directory structure, and can add version control and a README.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before writing a complete textbook to choose its location, plan the workspace, initialise Git if wanted, and hand off to the textbook-writing process.
Why use it?
It gives a new writing project an organised starting point without creating empty files that the main textbook workflow uses to track progress.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the textbook-writer plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before writing a complete textbook to choose its location, plan the workspace, initialise Git if wanted, and hand off to the textbook-writing process.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cabbage2000-lab/textbook-writer-skills/textbook-init
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.

Any agent
npx skills add cabbage2000-lab/textbook-writer-skills --skill textbook-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cabbage2000-lab/textbook-writer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install textbook-writer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 155 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,650 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00155 $0.01650
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00825
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00330
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00165

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4ba39b4cdbd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

textbook-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 6d 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/textbook-init/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

textbook-init

动笔前的工作目录规划师:一轮提问弄清作者要写一本还是多本、放在哪里、要不要版本管理,呈现目录方案等确认后创建目录骨架(可含 git 仓库与 README 工作说明),最后把作者交给 textbook 主流程开写。教材项目内部的文件构成以 ../textbook/references/handoff-contract.md(下称"契约文档")第 3 节为唯一权威定义,本 skill 只引用不重复定义。

何时不触发

  • 已有教材项目要续写(目录里有 .progress.json)——直接用 textbook,它会按状态文件定位续点;
  • 作者直接开写、不关心目录规划——textbook 启动时自会询问一次并默认 ./<教材名>/,无需先走本 skill;
  • 整理与教材写作无关的目录——本 skill 只服务教材项目的开局。

与流水线的关系

本 skill 只独立触发:不被 textbook 调度,不进五阶段契约链,产出是"就绪的空工作目录 + 启动指引"。

流水线文件一律不建不改.progress.json(主 skill 是唯一写者,这是项目红线)、00-前言.md(阶段 5 派生生成)、00-教材设计.md(textbook-outline 写入)、NN-<章标题>.md(逐章生成)、98-参考答案.md(逐章追加)、99-表现性任务.md(阶段 5 派生生成)、术语表.md(主 skill 追加维护)。动机:主 skill 的重入判定靠"这些文件存不存在、内容有没有"定位续点(契约文档第 4 节),预建空文件会让它把全新项目误判成半成品;空壳文件混进交付物也违背"交付即可用"的底线。本 skill 创建的只有目录本身、.gitignore 和 README 工作说明——均在契约之外。

工作流

第 1 步:一轮提问

用 AskUserQuestion 一轮收集四项(触发语已说明的项不再问):

  1. 教材名:如《线性代数入门》——将成为项目目录名;
  2. 规划范围:a) 只写这一本 b) 未来还会写多本(追加:工作区名,默认"教材工作区");
  3. 位置:项目/工作区建在哪个目录下,默认当前目录 ./
  4. git 版本管理:默认要(教材写作周期以周计,版本保护值回票价);作者明确不要则跳过。

若当前环境没有 AskUserQuestion 工具,降级为编号提问并等待文本回复:

请回答以下问题(回复格式如 "1 线性代数入门 2b 教材工作区 3 ./ 4 要"):
1. 教材名?
2. 规划范围? a) 只写这一本  b) 未来还会写多本(请给工作区名,默认"教材工作区")
3. 建在哪个目录下?(默认当前目录 ./)
4. 要 git 版本管理吗?(默认要)

按语义宽松解析回复,只就有歧义的一项追问。

第 2 步:方案呈现与确认

references/workspace-layout.md 第 1、2 节的布局规则组装方案,完整呈现后停下:

  • 目录树预览:含流水线随后会生成的文件,逐项注明"由 textbook 流水线创建"——让作者看到最终形态,同时不误以为本 skill 会建它们;
  • 关键选择及理由:单本还是工作区分层、git 建在哪一层、.gitignore 为什么不忽略 .progress.json
  • 停点格式沿用契约文档第 5 节:

⏸ 等待确认:工作目录方案(回复"确认"开始创建,或直接提出修改)

作者提出修改 → 更新方案后重新完整呈现再等确认,循环直到明确确认;"确认,但把位置改一下"这类混合答复按修改分支处理(修改优先于确认,判定语义同契约文档第 5 节)。确认前不创建任何东西。

第 3 步:创建与交接

  1. 建目录:按确认的方案 mkdir -p
  2. git 判重:在目标位置检查是否已处于某个 git 仓库内(方法见 references/workspace-layout.md 第 3 节)——已在,则跳过 git init 并向作者说明原因;
  3. git 初始化(作者要 git 且未命中判重):git init + 写 .gitignore + 首次提交,层级与内容规范见 references/workspace-layout.md 第 3、4 节;
  4. README 工作说明:按 references/workspace-layout.md 第 5 节模板实例化——所有字段填当前项目的真实值,写完通读确认没有残留尖括号或待填空白;
  5. 打印成果与下一步指引

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 6d ago Changed · +4 lines · +13 tokens per session 4ba39b4cdbd5
  2. 10d ago First seen · 76 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 0e86b969ebbc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

textbook-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository cabbage2000-lab/textbook-writer-skills (27 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 1,650 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.

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