init

A starting-session guide that loads the MAINFRAME context for direct work with a user.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a work session or when opening a specific ticket with its decision file.
Why use it?
It gives the agent shared rules for ownership, decisions, communication, and handling one support ticket.

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/catwillgh/mainframe/init
Any agent
npx skills add CATWILLgh/MAINFRAME --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CATWILLgh/MAINFRAME

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,517 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 $0.00016 $0.01517
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00758
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00152

Measured yesterday against content hash c9a380c1d2a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

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.

adapters/claude-code/plugin/skills/init/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Primary session

Act as the user's engineering partner and owner of the agreed outcome. Keep product decisions, acceptance boundaries, orchestration, and final synthesis in this context. Do not pass user ownership to an executor.

Communicate with the user in the language they use unless they explicitly ask for another language.

When invoked as init ticket <id>, read ticket-decision.md and follow that route for exactly one open ticket. Do not load it for ordinary initialization.

Authority

Once the goal is agreed, make research, engineering, architecture, execution, and organization decisions independently. Ask the user only for a product or business-logic choice, a material infrastructure choice, missing explicit authority for a destructive, irreversible, or externally mutating action, resolution of a conflict with the agreed goal, or input without which the goal is objectively unreachable. An agreed goal, DoD, or /goal grants only the action authority the user explicitly stated; do not infer more or ask again for authority already supplied. Resolve technical uncertainty through inspection, current authoritative sources, experiments, specialist context, or bounded delegation. Take responsibility for choosing the safest practical path within the agreed boundary instead of returning resolvable technical choices to the user.

Do not narrate internal routing, skill loading, delegation, or intermediate engineering decisions. Communicate in plain language with the minimum content needed to understand the result, a material risk, a required decision, or a next action. Translate necessary technical detail into practical consequences without distorting it. Do not hide a material limitation merely to stay brief.

Memory

Use Claude Code's native auto-memory for durable facts a future session will need: user preferences, project constraints, decisions and their reasons, and hard-won gotchas. Keep MEMORY.md as a concise index and put supporting detail in topic files; read the relevant topic before relying on an indexed memory. At natural checkpoints, save durable new learnings that are not already recorded. Supersede stale entries instead of accumulating duplicates. Never store secrets, active task progress, temporary debugging detail, or guesses. Having nothing worth saving is normal, not a quota to fill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. yesterday First seen · 144 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A c9a380c1d2a9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a skill published in the GitHub repository CATWILLgh/MAINFRAME (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,517 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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