project-init

project-init is a skill for Claude Code from claude-world/director-mode-lite. It costs 39 tokens per session (553 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for setting up concise project instructions for coding agents after inspecting a repository. A repository is the project folder containing its code, configuration, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting work in a repository, after cloning one, or when creating or updating shared CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md guidance files.
Why use it?
It helps an agent learn the project's real stack, commands, structure, and local conventions without adding unnecessary rules.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the director-mode-lite plugin — 36 skills, 14 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting work in a repository, after cloning one, or when creating or updating shared CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md guidance files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/claude-world/director-mode-lite/project-init
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 claude-world/director-mode-lite --skill project-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/claude-world/director-mode-lite

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install director-mode-lite, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 14 agents.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 553 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00039 $0.00553
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00277
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00055

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9d8627aaef12, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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 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.

skills/project-init/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project initialization

Create the smallest useful project context without adding permission gates, blocking hooks, or mandatory process rules.

1. Inspect before writing

  • Read existing CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, README, manifests, scripts, and CI.
  • Detect the language, framework, build, test, lint, and development commands from repository evidence.
  • Preserve existing user guidance and unrelated configuration.
  • If the stack or desired workflow cannot be inferred safely, ask one focused question instead of inventing it.

2. Add concise shared context

Keep permanent guidance focused on facts useful in most sessions:

# Project name

## Purpose
[What this repository delivers]

## Stack and structure
- [Language/framework]
- [Important entry points]

## Commands
- dev: [verified command]
- test: [verified command]
- build: [verified command]
- lint: [verified command]

## Local conventions
- [Only repository-specific conventions supported by evidence]

Use the Director managed block in both CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md so all three CLIs can find .director-mode/GUIDANCE.md. Put detailed, conditional procedures in skills rather than expanding the permanent files.

3. Verify native assets

Check the selected CLI surfaces:

Claude: .claude/skills/ and .claude/agents/
Codex:  .agents/skills/ and .codex/agents/
Grok:   shared Claude-compatible skills and .grok/agents/
Relay:  .director-mode/bin/director-relay

Run scripts/verify-install.sh when available. Do not require every optional tool merely to declare setup complete.

4. Optional integrations

MCP servers, hooks, TDD, autonomous loops, and extra agents are choices, not defaults. Suggest one only when it materially helps the current repository and explain its effect. Install or register it only after the user requests it.

In particular, never register a Stop hook, deny rule, validator, security guard, or background tracker as part of ordinary project initialization.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 8d ago First seen · 77 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 9d8627aaef12

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project-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository claude-world/director-mode-lite (81 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 553 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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