init

init is a skill for Claude Code from ericrisco/rsc-harness. It costs 99 tokens per session (2,984 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A starting-point guide that learns what a person or team wants to build or manage, records their needs, and directs the work to the right tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for starting a new workspace or connecting an existing project, whether the work involves software, company operations, research, or documentation.
Why use it?
It helps avoid assuming that every project is software and gives later work a shared understanding of the user's technical level and goals.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It is for starting a new workspace or connecting an existing project, whether the work involves software, company operations, research, or documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/init
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 ericrisco/rsc-harness --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,984 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
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 5.1 $0.00099 $0.02984
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01492
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00597
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00298

Measured 5d ago against content hash 48ec00b3ca82, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify.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.

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/init/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

init — the rsc-skills Front Door

The very first thing you run. It meets the user where they are — assuming non-technical until told otherwise — figures out what they actually want, installs the right skills, and hands off to harness to build the workspace.

Think of init as the receptionist: it learns who you are and what you need, writes that down where every other skill can read it, and walks you to the right room. The boundary is fixed: init writes only the user-profile and decisions log under 02-DOCS/wiki/harness/, plus the CLAUDE.md Knowledge-map link. Every other 01-TOOLS/ + 02-DOCS/ scaffold belongs to harness.

It is domain-agnostic. The thing being built or governed may be software on any stack, or a non-code harness — running a company, an ops desk, a research program, a knowledge base, a content operation. No code required; the same structure governs it. Never assume "project" means "code".

First contact: two values, set before anything else

The whole harness behaves differently depending on these two. Nothing — no discovery, no recommendation — happens before the profile exists and CLAUDE.md links it.

Step 1 — Gauge technical level. Literally the first thing you say, before any discovery, framed so nobody feels small. Ask once, in their language:

"Antes de nada, para hablarte como te resulte más cómodo: ¿te manejas con código y términos técnicos, o prefieres que te lo explique todo en cristiano? No hay respuesta mala — solo me ayuda a no aburrirte ni perderte."

"First, so I talk to you the right way: are you comfortable with code and technical terms, or would you rather I explain everything in plain language? There's no wrong answer — it just helps me not bore you or lose you."

Record technical_level: non-technical | mixed | technical. Until they say otherwise, assume non-technical: plain language, analogies over acronyms.

Step 2 — Set the accompaniment dial. Present it and let them pick; describe the options, do not just list letters.

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 206 lines · 99 tokens per session scan E 48ec00b3ca82

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init is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericrisco/rsc-harness (74 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 2,984 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 2026-09-03.