kit-setup

kit-setup is a skill for Claude Code from chrisblattman/claudeblattman. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,210 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A one-time setup workflow for a starter kit. It detects installed Codex or Gemini command-line tools, asks whether to use each one, saves that choice, and can personalize Claude's writing style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up the kit, checking available AI engines, saving engine preferences, or optionally customizing how Claude writes.
Why use it?
It records optional tools safely without asking about subscriptions or configuring tools that are not installed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the starter-kit plugin — 3 skills, 2 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add chrisblattman/claudeblattman
Claude Code
/plugin install starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install starter-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 2 commands, 4 agents.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,210 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 5.1 $0.00046 $0.01210
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00605
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00242
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00121

Measured 6d ago against content hash a97f4b2bd77e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kit-setup 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.

plugins/starter-kit/skills/kit-setup/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kit Setup

Everything in this kit works on Claude alone. This skill records which optional extra engines exist on this machine, so other kit skills can offer second opinions. Detect, then confirm. Never ask the user what subscriptions or plans they have, and never list, describe, or ask about tools that weren't detected.

Phase 1 — Engines

1. Detect

One Bash call:

command -v codex; command -v gemini; date +%Y-%m-%d

For each CLI found, run a quick <tool> --version; if that fails, say it looks installed but isn't currently working, record it as unavailable, and move on — don't troubleshoot here. Version output only means "detected," not "usable."

2. Confirm each FOUND tool, in plain language

One short yes/no question per tool that was found — and nothing about tools that weren't:

  • codex: "I found the Codex CLI installed — want me to use it for second opinions and research? (yes/no)"
  • gemini: "I found the Gemini CLI installed — want me to use it for second opinions and very long documents? (yes/no)"

If nothing was found, skip the questions entirely. Either way, close Phase 1 with one line: "If you later install the Codex or Gemini CLI, run /kit-setup again."

3. Smoke-test each accepted tool

For each detected tool the user accepts, create one private temp directory with mktemp -d, then run one tiny smoke test through the shipped wrapper:

smoke_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
printf 'Reply with exactly: starter-kit-ok\n' | bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/codex-run.sh" "$smoke_dir/codex.txt" light
printf 'Reply with exactly: starter-kit-ok\n' | bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/gemini-run.sh" "$smoke_dir/gemini.txt"

If the wrapper succeeds and the output is non-empty, mark the engine available: true. If it fails, mark it unavailable but preserve what happened, for example { "available": false, "detected": true, "auth_unverified": true }. Keep the user-facing message plain: "I found Codex/Gemini, but it did not answer a test prompt yet. Everything still works on Claude."

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 6d ago First seen · 88 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A a97f4b2bd77e

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kit-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository chrisblattman/claudeblattman (454 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,210 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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