stack-bootstrap

A setup and repair tool for configuring an agent-support layer in a code repository. A repository is the project folder containing source code, history, and development settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check the current setup, initialize missing files and adapters, regenerate supported configuration, connect hooks, and verify the result.
Why use it?
It helps keep agent instructions, skills, hooks, and related configuration aligned after onboarding, cloning, or configuration changes.

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/drmahdikazempour/agent-stack/stack-bootstrap
Any agent
npx skills add drmahdikazempour/agent-stack --skill stack-bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drmahdikazempour/agent-stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 495 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 $0.00092 $0.00495
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00247
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00049

Measured yesterday against content hash 8a857bdefbc0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stack-bootstrap 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 yesterday.

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/stack-bootstrap/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

stack-bootstrap

Bootstrap or re-sync this repo's optimization layer. Skills decide when; the CLI decides how — always shell out to agent-stack for file writes so the hook merger stays the sole writer of settings.json.

When to use

  • First time working in a repo that should have agent-stack configured.
  • After pulling changes that touched .claude/, .cursor/, or integrations/.
  • When startup context feels heavy and you suspect the setup drifted.

What to do

  1. Run npx @drmahdikazempour/agent-stack doctor to see current state and whether anything is configured.
  2. If unconfigured or drifted, run npx @drmahdikazempour/agent-stack init. It:
    • detects host(s), profile, package manager, and existing config,
    • backs up anything it will touch into .agent-stack.bak.<ts>/,
    • installs the profile's pinned adapters (or runs config-only with --no-install),
    • generates CLAUDE.md, skills, agents, commands, .claudeignore, the Cursor mirror, and MCP scaffold,
    • wires hooks in a single merged write,
    • verifies every skill loads and every hook is present (rolls back on failure),
    • captures a ccusage token baseline.
  3. Report the chosen profile, adapters installed, hooks wired, and baseline tokens.

Flags worth knowing

  • --dry-run — print the plan, write nothing.
  • --profile <code|review|multimodal|spec> — override auto-detection.
  • --no-install — write configs only; skip binary installs.
  • --yes — skip the single confirm prompt.

Idempotency

Running init twice is a no-op unless --force. Safe to re-run anytime.

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. yesterday First seen · 35 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 8a857bdefbc0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stack-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository drmahdikazempour/agent-stack (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 495 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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