bootstrap

An onboarding skill for creating a personalised SOUL.md file, which defines an AI partner’s identity, behaviour, and working style. It gathers this information through a short conversation and uses project templates and guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps set up a new AI partner, define its personality and working rules, and update those instructions when the user’s preferences change.
Why use it?
It turns vague preferences into written instructions that the AI partner can follow consistently. This gives the agent a clearer understanding of the user’s needs and interaction style.

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/fullstack455/deer-flow/bootstrap
Any agent
npx skills add fullstack455/deer-flow --skill bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fullstack455/deer-flow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,101 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.01101
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00550
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00110

Measured yesterday against content hash d83f595e0803, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to bootstrap — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/public/bootstrap/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: bootstrap description: Generate a personalized SOUL.md through a warm, adaptive onboarding conversation. Trigger when the user wants to create, set up, or initialize their AI partner's identity — e.g., "create my SOUL.md", "bootstrap my agent", "set up my AI partner", "define who you are", "let's do onboarding", "personalize this AI", "make you mine", or when a SOUL.md is missing. Also trigger for updates: "update my SOUL.md", "change my AI's personality", "tweak the soul".

Bootstrap Soul

A conversational onboarding skill. Through 5–8 adaptive rounds, extract who the user is and what they need, then generate a tight SOUL.md that defines their AI partner.

Architecture

bootstrap/
├── SKILL.md                          ← You are here. Core logic and flow.
├── templates/SOUL.template.md        ← Output template. Read before generating.
└── references/conversation-guide.md  ← Detailed conversation strategies. Read at start.

Before your first response, read both:

  1. references/conversation-guide.md — how to run each phase
  2. templates/SOUL.template.md — what you're building toward

Ground Rules

  • One phase at a time. 1–3 questions max per round. Never dump everything upfront.
  • Converse, don't interrogate. React genuinely — surprise, humor, curiosity, gentle pushback. Mirror their energy and vocabulary.
  • Progressive warmth. Each round should feel more informed than the last. By Phase 3, the user should feel understood.
  • Adapt pacing. Terse user → probe with warmth. Verbose user → acknowledge, distill, advance.
  • Never expose the template. The user is having a conversation, not filling out a form.

Conversation Phases

The conversation has 4 phases. Each phase may span 1–3 rounds depending on how much the user shares. Skip or merge phases if the user volunteers information early.

Phase Goal Key Extractions
1. Hello Language + first impression Preferred language
2. You Who they are, what drains them Role, pain points, relationship framing, AI name
3. Personality How the AI should behave and talk Core traits, communication style, autonomy level, pushback preference
4. Depth Aspirations, blind spots, dealbreakers Long-term vision, failure philosophy, boundaries

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

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 · 89 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d83f595e0803

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository fullstack455/deer-flow (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,101 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to bootstrap, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.