What is project-initializer?

A project setup assistant that creates a README, an AGENTS.md file with instructions for coding agents, and continuous-integration files. Continuous integration automatically checks changes, while spec-driven development means organising implementation around written specifications.

Starting a new project, choosing its technology stack and quality level, configuring GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, adding an OpenSpec or SpecKit-style workflow, and checking that the generated files agree.

It removes the repetitive work of setting up project documentation, automated checks, coding rules, and a chosen specification workflow consistently.

project-initializer — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by cyberelf

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 cyberelf/agent_skills --skill project-initializer

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyberelf/agent_skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 178 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 5,516 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00178	$0.05516
Opus 5.5	$0.00071	$0.02206
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00036	$0.01103
Haiku 4.5	$0.00018	$0.00552

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5500ffb4efc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-initializer scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 14 executable files (assets/scripts/check_project_tag.js, assets/scripts/check_project_tag.ps1, assets/scripts/check_project_tag.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

The Node.js variants are the most portable choice if the runner environment is uncertain. They require no npm dependencies — only the Node.js built-in modules (`fs`, `path`, `child_process`).

skills/project-initializer/SKILL.md · 367 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 367 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Initializer

A skill for scaffolding new projects with consistent README.md, AGENTS.md, and CI/CD pipelines — all wired together with an SDD (Spec-Driven Development) framework.

Overview

The skill does five things:

Interview — Understand the project's goals, tech stack, coding standards, quality requirements, CI platform(s), and preferred SDD workflow.
Generate — Create README.md, AGENTS.md, and CI pipeline file(s) from templates.
Integrate — Install SDD framework tools and initialize project structure; wire coding standards and quality checks into the CI pipeline.
Tag — Embed a machine-readable project identity tag in AGENTS.md so server-side CI can verify the project was properly initialized.
Verify consistency — Make sure all generated files agree with each other (same tech stack, same quality gates, same SDD expectations).

Phase 1: Interview

使用 AskUserQuestion 与用户进行访谈，了解项目情况。逐个问题与用户交互 — 不要跳过问题或代表用户做出决定。在进入第2阶段（文件生成）前，总结他们的答案并确认理解。

根据已有的上下文信息，可以一次性提出所有问题，也可以在自然对话中分散提问 — 根据情况自行判断。

必需信息：

对于以下每个问题，使用 AskUserQuestion 与用户交互式提问。不要跳过问题，不要代替用户做决定。当提供建议或默认值时，请通过 AskUserQuestion 确认用户同意后再继续。

项目名称和一句话描述 — 使用 AskUserQuestion。这个项目是什么？它解决了什么问题？
技术栈 — 编程语言、框架、包管理工具、数据库、部署目标等。使用 AskUserQuestion 提示用户。用户表示不确定或要求建议时，根据问题领域提供合理的默认值 — 但通过 AskUserQuestion 获得用户确认后再继续。
质量等级 — 使用 AskUserQuestion 提问：这是演示/原型项目还是生产项目？
- 演示：最小化CI、无覆盖率门槛、无安全扫描、轻量级SDD
- 生产：完整CI、覆盖率门槛、安全扫描、严格的SDD对齐检查

SDD框架 — 使用 AskUserQuestion 展示所有三个选项，询问团队将使用哪一个。包括下面的描述以帮助他们做出决定。

框架	风格	适用于
OpenSpec	流畅、棕地优先、增量规范	现有代码库、个人开发者、迭代工作
SpecKit	宪法强制、分阶段	团队、企业、严格的质量标准
GSD	基于阶段的路线图、上下文工程	想让AI做主力工作的个人开发者

选择后，阅读相应的参考文件了解更多细节：

OpenSpec → references/openspec.md

SpecKit → references/speckit.md

GSD → references/gsd.md

CI平台 — 使用 AskUserQuestion 提问：应该配置哪些CI系统？
- GitLab CI — 生成 .gitlab-ci.yml
- GitHub Actions — 生成 .github/workflows/ci.yml
- 两者 — 生成两个文件，保持一致

Read the full file on GitHub · 367 lines

Files

What ships with it

21 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.

2mo ago First seen · 367 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5500ffb4efc5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-initializer is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyberelf/agent_skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 178 tokens to every session and 5,516 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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