setup

A setup checklist for Minimise, a command-line tool that runs tasks through the Claude command-line interface inside a Git repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify or install the Minimise command-line tool, check for Claude and Git, and identify missing prerequisites.
Why use it?
It checks the required tools before work begins and prevents project files from being changed during setup.

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/dosatos/minimise/setup
Any agent
npx skills add dosatos/minimise --skill setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dosatos/minimise

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 710 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 $0.00028 $0.00710
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00355
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9549d3b71dd3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

assets/claude/skills/setup/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setting up minimise

Get mini working in the user's current project. Verify first, install only what is missing, and write nothing into their repo.

Do not touch the project

This skill is read-only with respect to the user's repository. It must NOT create or edit .claude/settings.json, hooks, plan files, scaffolding, or any other file in their project. All minimise state (config, database, job dirs) lives in ~/.minimise/, which is created automatically on first run. If the user asks for project scaffolding, that is a different conversation — say so rather than quietly writing files.

1. Check the three prerequisites

mini --help          # the minimise CLI (there is no --version flag)
claude --version     # the agent harness minimise shells out to for every task
git rev-parse --show-toplevel   # jobs run inside a git repo; commits/diffs track task output

Report each as present or missing before doing anything about it.

  • claude missing — minimise cannot execute a single task without it. Point the user at https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code and stop; do not try to install it for them.
  • Not a git repo — jobs commit each task's work, so there is nothing to commit against. Tell the user to git init (or move to a repo) and stop. Do not git init for them.
  • mini missing — install it (below).

2. Install mini if it is missing

Requires Python 3.9+. From a local clone:

pip install -e .            # run from the minimise repo root

Or straight from the repo:

pip install git+https://github.com/dosatos/minimise.git

Then re-verify — an install that does not put mini on PATH is not an install:

mini --help

If it still is not found, the likely cause is a pip that installed into a different Python than the one on PATH (pyenv/venv mismatch). Say that plainly and show which -a python3 pip rather than guessing.

3. Confirm and hand off

When all three checks pass, tell the user:

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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 · 71 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 9549d3b71dd3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository dosatos/minimise (11 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 710 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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