init-project

init-project is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from escapeboy/ai-prompts. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,655 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A one-time setup skill for preparing a new project for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant. It examines the project, records useful project knowledge, creates shared rules, and configures the assistant.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting regular work on a new codebase and want its technology, conventions, and architecture documented for Claude Code. After setup, use the project's context and optimization commands for later work.
Why use it?
It avoids repeating the same project discovery and setup in later sessions. It is intended for projects you will return to, not one-off experiments.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when starting regular work on a new codebase and want its technology, conventions, and architecture documented for Claude Code. After setup, use the project's context and optimization commands for later work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/escapeboy/ai-prompts/init-project
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 escapeboy/ai-prompts --skill init-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/escapeboy/ai-prompts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,655 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00057 $0.01655
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00662
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00166

Measured 27d ago against content hash 46f4ff0fd3bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init-project 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 27d 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.

01-global-optimization/skills/init-project/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/init-project — Project Initialization

Sets up Claude Code optimization for a new project in 10-15 minutes. Detects the tech stack, fetches best practices, creates Serena memories, generates a project constitution, and configures optimization settings.

Run once per project. After init, use /optimize and /ctx load for all subsequent work.

When to Use This Skill (and When NOT to)

Use this skill for Use a simpler approach for
A project you'll work in repeatedly and want optimized from the start A repo you'll touch once — just read what you need and go
First-time setup of Serena memories + constitution + optimization config Re-running work on an already-initialized project — use /ctx load + /optimize instead
A codebase whose conventions/architecture Claude should learn once and reuse Adding a single memory or tweaking one setting — edit the file directly
Standing up the .claude/ + .serena/ scaffold in a fresh clone A throwaway spike or scratch directory

Start simple. Reach for this skill only when the project is one you'll return to and the up-front setup pays back across many sessions. Run it once per project — it is initialization, not a per-session command.

Usage

/init-project [action] [options]

Quick Examples

/init-project --full            # Complete initialization (recommended)
/init-project detect            # Just detect the stack
/init-project fetch rails       # Fetch best practices for a language/framework
/init-project constitution      # Generate constitution only
/init-project memories          # Initialize Serena memories only
/init-project optimize          # Configure optimization settings only

Quick Start: Full Initialization

/init-project --full

This runs all steps in sequence and produces a fully configured project. Takes 10-15 minutes. After completion you'll have:

  • .serena/memories/architecture.md
  • .serena/memories/codebase-conventions.md
  • .serena/memories/testing-strategy.md
  • .claude/settings/constitution.json
  • .claude/settings/token-optimization.json (project-level)
  • .claude/CLAUDE.md (if it doesn't exist)

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 27d ago Changed · +34 tokens per session 46f4ff0fd3bd
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 181 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A a5902e04be65

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository escapeboy/ai-prompts (91 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,655 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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