dr-init

A setup method for starting a new Darkroom project from one of two ready-made web application starters: one based on Next.js and one based on React Router with Vite.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating a new project from the satus or novus starter, installing its dependencies, and beginning work with the selected web stack.
Why use it?
It gives you a defined starting structure and helps choose a setup suited to a content-focused website or an application-style single-page app.

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/darkroomengineering/cc-settings/dr-init
Any agent
npx skills add darkroomengineering/cc-settings --skill dr-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darkroomengineering/cc-settings

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 932 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 $0.00053 $0.00932
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00466
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00093

Measured 2d ago against content hash bb33208d494b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dr-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 2d 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/dr-init/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Initialize Darkroom Project

Create a new project using a Darkroom starter. Darkroom maintains two:

Starter Stack When to use
satus Next.js 16 + App Router + RSC + React 19 Content-driven sites, SEO-critical, Vercel-friendly, projects that benefit from Server Components / Server Actions
novus React Router 7 + Vite + React 19 SPA-leaning apps, projects that prefer the loader/action data model, projects without need for RSC, projects deploying to non-Vercel infra

Step 1 — Pick the starter

If the user already specified ("/dr-init satus", "/dr-init novus", "create new react-router project"), use that. Otherwise ask:

Which starter?
- satus (Next.js)   — App Router, Server Components, Vercel-optimized
- novus (React Router) — RR7, Vite, classic loader/action model

When the user is unsure, prefer satus for marketing/content sites and novus for app-heavy SPAs.

Step 2 — Clone

satus (Next.js)

bunx degit darkroomengineering/satus $ARGUMENTS
cd $ARGUMENTS
bun install

novus (React Router)

bunx degit darkroomengineering/novus $ARGUMENTS
cd $ARGUMENTS
bun install

Step 3 — Post-setup

Both starters:

  1. Update package.json — change name, description.
  2. Configure environment — copy .env.example to .env (or .env.local for satus).
  3. Start devbun dev.
  4. Open debugCmd/Ctrl + O (satus) or Cmd + . / Ctrl + O (novus).

What each starter includes

satus

  • Next.js 16 + App Router
  • React 19 + React Compiler
  • TypeScript strict mode
  • Tailwind CSS v4
  • Biome
  • Lenis smooth scroll
  • Hamo performance hooks
  • Image / Link component wrappers
  • CSS Modules with s alias
  • @/ path alias

novus

  • React Router 7 + SSR via Vite
  • React 19 + React Compiler
  • TypeScript strict mode
  • Tailwind CSS v4
  • Biome
  • Optional: WebGL (R3F), Anime.js, Theatre.js
  • Sanity CMS integration (optional)
  • t3-env + Valibot for typed env
  • CSS Modules with s alias
  • ~/ path alias

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 2d ago First seen · 119 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A bb33208d494b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dr-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository darkroomengineering/cc-settings (42 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 932 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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