bootstrap

bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from EvolveHQ/docflow. It costs 114 tokens per session (12,212 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup process for a repository that uses written development rules, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and a queue of planned work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or retrofit files such as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, CONVENTIONS.md, an ADR catalogue, and a plan queue while preserving existing documentation.
Why use it?
It gives a project a consistent place for instructions, decisions, plans, and agent coordination, including when adding these conventions to an existing codebase.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the docflow plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or retrofit files such as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, CONVENTIONS.md, an ADR catalogue, and a plan queue while preserving existing documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/evolvehq/docflow/bootstrap
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 EvolveHQ/docflow --skill bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EvolveHQ/docflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install docflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for bootstrap

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/evolvehq/docflow/bootstrap/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/evolvehq/docflow/bootstrap)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for bootstrap

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/evolvehq/docflow/bootstrap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/evolvehq/docflow/bootstrap.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 12,212 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
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to low

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • low Excessive Agency · line 161
    Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
    Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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 $0.00114 $0.12212
Opus 5.5 $0.00046 $0.04885
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.02442
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.01221

Measured 9d ago against content hash 35ca8f9609e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 9d 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.

plugins/docflow/skills/bootstrap/SKILL.md · 860 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 860 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

bootstrap

You are installing (or retrofitting) a documentation-led convention set in the current repo. The end state is a repo that can be driven by both humans and coding agents off a small set of canonical files. Carry over the mechanism described here — nothing about any other project.

Step 1 — Detect the situation

Inspect the repo before asking anything. Reuse explicit answers and sign-off already supplied in this session; never replace them with profile defaults or ask for them again. Before writing, summarise the resolved artefact root, depth, queue, gate and coordination/integration modes against those answers. If a host mirrors a selected folder into a sandbox, identify the actual target path and how verified outputs reach the selected folder; never call an untouched target complete merely because a scratch mirror passed.

  • Fresh repo (no source, no docs): you are scaffolding from zero.
  • Existing repo: you are retrofitting.
    • Read any current README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/, adr/, .github/ before proposing changes.
    • Preserve existing content. Merge, don't overwrite. If existing conventions conflict with the ones below, surface the conflict in your assessment summary.
    • If ADRs already exist in another format, propose a migration plan (renumber, keep, translate) rather than creating a parallel tree.
  • Already a docflow repo (carries AGENTS.md + CONVENTIONS.md + an ADR catalogue): you are adding to an existing setup, not scaffolding. Do not re-scaffold the core or re-ask settled questions — read the recorded choices from CONVENTIONS.md/AGENTS.md (ADR shape, status lifecycle, artefact root, multi-agent mode, and which optional layers already exist). Then offer to enable any opted-out optional layer still absent — plan/, _agent/, GLOSSARY.md, domains/, or the second ADR shape (the technology template) — and write only the chosen ones, by merge, under the recorded artefact root, leaving everything else untouched. Ask only the questions the new layers need (e.g. the coordination question when enabling _agent/ — where a single writer without both a recorded verify gate and a plan queue correctly ends up with no _agent/ at all, and the layer is simply not needed). This is the entry point for adding a layer you deferred at first bootstrap. A repo still carrying coordination files an earlier scaffold wrote keeps them: leave them in place here and let the audit skill report the layout.

Read the full file on GitHub · 860 lines

Files

What ships with it

43 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. 9d ago Changed · +23 lines 35ca8f9609e1
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  7. 1mo ago First seen · 611 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 4dcb8b7cb637

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository EvolveHQ/docflow (16 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 12,212 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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