bootstrap-project

A project setup skill for configuring a code project's linter, formatter, and test framework, whether the project is new or already has code.

In plain words
What is it for?
It prepares a new or existing project for development and verifies that the setup works from start to finish. You can skip it by saying “skip setup”.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of figuring out and checking the project's basic development tools before coding.

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/cahenesy/throughline/bootstrap-project
Any agent
npx skills add cahenesy/throughline --skill bootstrap-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cahenesy/throughline

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,605 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 $0.00050 $0.03605
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01802
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00721
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00361

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6b583d30c1ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bootstrap-project 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/bootstrap-project/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project setup

Run when starting work on a project. Determine whether it is greenfield (empty: no source files, fresh or absent package-manager init) or brownfield (existing code), then follow the matching path. If the user says "skip setup", stop and do nothing.

Step 0 — read the bootstrap marker (before any work)

Before detecting the language or touching anything, check whether this repo was already bootstrapped. Source the helpers from the plugin and read the committed repo marker (from the repo root):

# The short-circuit DEPENDS on these helpers: if a helper cannot be sourced
# (wrong/unset CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT or GROK_PLUGIN_ROOT), tl_repo_marker_read
# becomes "command not found", $applied reads empty, and an unguarded block
# would fall through to a full re-bootstrap of an already-bootstrapped repo —
# silently bypassing FR-31. Fail loudly instead so the operator fixes the
# path and re-runs. Resolve the plugin tree first (tl_plugin_root is defined
# only after plugin-root.sh is sourced).
_tl_src="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-${GROK_PLUGIN_ROOT:-}}"
# shellcheck disable=SC1091
. "${_tl_src}/scripts/lib/plugin-root.sh" || {
  echo "bootstrap: could not source scripts/lib/plugin-root.sh from CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT or GROK_PLUGIN_ROOT — cannot read the bootstrap marker to check for a prior run; fix the plugin path and re-run" >&2
  return 1 2>/dev/null || exit 1
}
unset _tl_src
source "$(tl_plugin_root)/scripts/lib/repo-id.sh" || {
  echo "bootstrap: could not source scripts/lib/repo-id.sh from $(tl_plugin_root) — cannot read the bootstrap marker to check for a prior run; fix the plugin path and re-run" >&2
  return 1 2>/dev/null || exit 1
}
source "$(tl_plugin_root)/scripts/lib/markers.sh" || {
  echo "bootstrap: could not source scripts/lib/markers.sh from $(tl_plugin_root) — cannot read the bootstrap marker to check for a prior run; fix the plugin path and re-run" >&2
  return 1 2>/dev/null || exit 1
}
marker="$(tl_repo_marker_read)"   # the marker JSON, or "{}" if absent/malformed
applied="$(printf '%s\n' "$marker" | sed -n 's/.*"plugin_version_applied"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' | head -n1)"
language="$(printf '%s\n' "$marker" | sed -n 's/.*"language"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' | head -n1)"

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 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. 2d ago First seen · 268 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 6b583d30c1ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bootstrap-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository cahenesy/throughline (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,605 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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