scaffold-new-repo

scaffold-new-repo is a skill for Claude Code from cboone/agent-harness-plugins. It costs 179 tokens per session (2,173 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project starter that creates the standard foundation for a new repository and adapts it to common project types such as Go, Python, Rust, or JavaScript.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to bootstrap a new project with a license, README, changelog, ignore rules, configuration files, and a plans directory.
Why use it?
It saves time spent deciding which basic files and agent instructions every new repository needs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the scaffold-new-repo plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to bootstrap a new project with a license, README, changelog, ignore rules, configuration files, and a plans directory.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cboone/agent-harness-plugins/scaffold-new-repo
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 cboone/agent-harness-plugins --skill scaffold-new-repo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cboone/agent-harness-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install scaffold-new-repo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 179 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,173 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 $0.00179 $0.02173
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.01086
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00435
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00217

Measured 8d ago against content hash 12e51855d136, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scaffold-new-repo 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 8d 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/scaffold-new-repo/skills/scaffold-new-repo/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scaffold New Repo

Generate the language-agnostic foundation files that every new repository starts with.

Workflow

1. Gather Project Information

If the user provided a project name in their request, use it directly instead of detecting from git remote or README. If they specified a project type (one of go-cli, go-library, javascript, pascal, python, ruby, rust, shell, swift, zig-cli, generic), use it instead of inferring from .gitignore. Any remaining parameters should still be gathered normally.

Derive what you can automatically, then ask for only what's missing:

  • Project name -- derive from the git remote URL or README.md h1 heading, not from the directory or branch name (those are often misleading, e.g. worktree paths). Detection order:
    1. git remote get-url origin -- extract the repo name from the URL (strip the trailing .git if present, take the last path segment). If the command exits non-zero, returns empty output, or the URL cannot be parsed into a repo name, treat this as "no remote" and continue to step 2.
    2. If there is no usable remote, check for an existing README.md and use its h1 heading (converted to kebab-case)
    3. Only if both the remote and README detection fail, ask the user for the project name
  • Short description -- ask the user for a one-sentence description.
  • Project type -- check the existing .gitignore first (GitHub often generates one when creating the repo). Infer the project type from its contents: Check heuristics in the order listed below. The first match wins.
    • go.work or *.test → Go CLI or Go library
    • node_modules/ → JavaScript
    • __pycache__/ or *.pyc → Python
    • *.gem or .bundle/ → Ruby
    • *.ppu or *.compiled → Pascal
    • xcuserdata/ alone, or both .build/ and *.ipa together → Swift
    • .zig-cache/ or zig-out/ → Zig CLI
    • target/ with no other language markers matched → Rust
    • Minimal or macOS-only entries → Shell or Generic
    • Only ask the user for the project type if the .gitignore does not make it clear.
  • Project type options: Go CLI, Go library, JavaScript, Pascal, Python, Ruby, Rust, Shell, Swift, Zig CLI, Generic

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 8d ago First seen · 215 lines · 179 tokens per session scan A 12e51855d136

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scaffold-new-repo is a skill published in the GitHub repository cboone/agent-harness-plugins (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 179 tokens to every session and 2,173 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-03.