ijfw-new-project

ijfw-new-project is a skill for Claude Code from FerroxLabs/ijfw. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,427 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for starting a new project in software, writing, marketing, design, or product work. It identifies the project type, records a brief and decisions, and defines the next step.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps bootstrap a project, create durable project memory, and choose the appropriate starting process for a book, campaign, landing page, design system, launch, or software project.
Why use it?
It prevents a new project from starting with an unclear scope or lost decisions. It also avoids assuming that every project is a software project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the ijfw plugin — 34 skills, 22 commands, 37 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps bootstrap a project, create durable project memory, and choose the appropriate starting process for a book, campaign, landing page, design system, launch, or software project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ferroxlabs/ijfw/ijfw-new-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 FerroxLabs/ijfw --skill ijfw-new-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FerroxLabs/ijfw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ijfw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 22 commands, 37 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,427 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 $0.00061 $0.01427
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00714
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00143

Measured 7d ago against content hash d51ed7d9bfb0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ijfw-new-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 7d 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.

claude/skills/ijfw-new-project/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IJFW New Project

Domain-agnostic bootstrap. Software is one domain; book, campaign, landing-page, design-system, and launch are first-class peers. The end state is the same: a confirmed brief, durable memory, and a clear next move.

Step 1 -- Detect domain (one question, max)

Read the user's first line. Map silently:

Phrase contains Domain
"app", "site", "API", "service", "CLI", "library", "tool" software
"book", "chapter", "manuscript", "novel", "essay collection" book
"campaign", "ad", "funnel", "email sequence", "drip" campaign
"landing page", "one-pager", "splash", "lead magnet" landing-page
"design system", "component library", "brand kit", "tokens" design-system
"launch", "release plan", "PR/FAQ", "go-to-market" launch

If no signal, ask once: One word: software / book / campaign / landing-page / design-system / launch? Accept aliases. Do not interrogate. Do not assume software.

Step 2 -- Memory recall

Call ijfw_memory_recall with the project name + domain. If matches return, surface up to 3 relevant prior decisions inline:

I remember: <project> -- <decision>. Want me to apply that pattern here?

If empty, say clean slate -- no prior context and continue. Never silent.

Step 3 -- Brief skeleton

Write .ijfw/memory/brief.md from the domain template:

  • software -> claude/skills/ijfw-new-project/templates/software.brief.md
  • book -> claude/skills/ijfw-new-project/templates/book.brief.md
  • campaign -> claude/skills/ijfw-new-project/templates/campaign.brief.md
  • landing-page -> claude/skills/ijfw-new-project/templates/landing-page.brief.md
  • design-system -> claude/skills/ijfw-new-project/templates/design-system.brief.md
  • launch -> claude/skills/ijfw-new-project/templates/launch.brief.md

If the template file is absent in this checkout, fall back to a minimal skeleton (goal / audience / success criteria / out-of-scope / first move). Templates are the contract; the skill must still produce a brief if they haven't shipped yet.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. 7d ago First seen · 126 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A d51ed7d9bfb0

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ijfw-new-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository FerroxLabs/ijfw (210 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,427 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-05.

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