convex-quickstart

convex-quickstart is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dan-Cleary/convalytics. It costs 108 tokens per session (2,725 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of convex-quickstart, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for creating a Convex project or adding Convex, a backend service, to an existing React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, or similar frontend.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scaffolding new Convex apps, adding Convex to existing projects, connecting the provider, and checking that the development setup works.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of installing Convex, connecting the frontend to it, configuring environment variables, and starting development.

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/dan-cleary/convalytics/convex-quickstart
Any agent
npx skills add Dan-Cleary/convalytics --skill convex-quickstart
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dan-Cleary/convalytics

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.

agentmods badge for convex-quickstart

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dan-cleary/convalytics/convex-quickstart"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dan-cleary/convalytics/convex-quickstart.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,725 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00108 $0.02725
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.01362
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00545
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00272

Measured 5d ago against content hash c67d665cfd9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

convex-quickstart 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to convex-quickstart — 46 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/convex-quickstart/SKILL.md · 338 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 338 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Convex Quickstart

Set up a working Convex project as fast as possible.

When to Use

  • Starting a brand new project with Convex
  • Adding Convex to an existing React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, or other app
  • Scaffolding a Convex app for prototyping

When Not to Use

  • The project already has Convex installed and convex/ exists - just start building
  • You only need to add auth to an existing Convex app - use the convex-setup-auth skill

Workflow

  1. Determine the starting point: new project or existing app
  2. If new project, pick a template and scaffold with npm create convex@latest
  3. If existing app, install convex and wire up the provider
  4. Run npx convex dev to connect a deployment and start the dev loop
  5. Verify the setup works

Use the official scaffolding tool. It creates a complete project with the frontend framework, Convex backend, and all config wired together.

Pick a template

Template Stack
react-vite-shadcn React + Vite + Tailwind + shadcn/ui
nextjs-shadcn Next.js App Router + Tailwind + shadcn/ui
react-vite-clerk-shadcn React + Vite + Clerk auth + shadcn/ui
nextjs-clerk Next.js + Clerk auth
nextjs-convexauth-shadcn Next.js + Convex Auth + shadcn/ui
nextjs-lucia-shadcn Next.js + Lucia auth + shadcn/ui
bare Convex backend only, no frontend

If the user has not specified a preference, default to react-vite-shadcn for simple apps or nextjs-shadcn for apps that need SSR or API routes.

You can also use any GitHub repo as a template:

npm create convex@latest my-app -- -t owner/repo
npm create convex@latest my-app -- -t owner/repo#branch

Scaffold the project

Always pass the project name and template flag to avoid interactive prompts:

npm create convex@latest my-app -- -t react-vite-shadcn
cd my-app
npm install

The scaffolding tool creates files but does not run npm install, so you must run it yourself.

Read the full file on GitHub · 338 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 5d ago First seen · 338 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A c67d665cfd9e

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convex-quickstart is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dan-Cleary/convalytics (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 2,725 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to convex-quickstart, differing in 46 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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