bootstrap-project

A project-setup workflow that examines an existing repository and identifies the scaffolding and development tools it needs. Scaffolding means the basic files and configuration needed to start or organise a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to bootstrap a new or existing Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, Lean, or related project.
Why use it?
It helps avoid manually figuring out what setup is missing or running setup tools in the wrong order.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,817 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 $0.00068 $0.02817
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01409
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00563
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00282

Measured 2d ago against content hash ac20d8eaf380, 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.

plugins/bootstrap-project/skills/bootstrap-project/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.

Bootstrap Project

Assess the current repository, detect what scaffolding and setup is already in place, build a plan of which tools to run, get user approval, and execute everything in the correct order.

Works for both brand-new and existing repositories.

Workflow

1. Detect Project Type

Scan for language and framework markers using Glob. Exclude node_modules/, .yarn/, .lake/, vendor/, and other dependency directories from all searches.

Marker(s) Project type
go.mod + (main.go or cmd/) Go CLI
go.mod without main.go or cmd/ Go library
package.json + JS/TS source files JavaScript/TypeScript
pyproject.toml, setup.py, requirements.txt Python
Cargo.toml + (src/main.rs, src/bin/*.rs, or [[bin]] in Cargo.toml) Rust CLI
Cargo.toml without src/main.rs, src/bin/*.rs, or [[bin]] Rust library
lakefile.toml or lakefile.lean with [[lean_exe]], lean_exe, Main.lean, or user says CLI Lean CLI
lean-toolchain, lakefile.toml, lakefile.lean, or *.lean without Lean CLI markers Lean library
User says Lean formalization, Mathlib-downstream library, PFR downstream project, or theorem prover Lean library
build.zig + (src/main.zig or src/) Zig CLI
Gemfile, *.gemspec Ruby
*.sh, bin/*, scripts/* Shell
*.zsh, #!/usr/bin/env zsh shebangs, .zshrc, .zshenv Zsh
No recognizable files New/empty repo

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. 2d ago First seen · 180 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A ac20d8eaf380

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bootstrap-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository cboone/agent-harness-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,817 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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