strata:bootstrap

A one-time onboarding process that reads existing project documentation and turns suitable parts into organized vault notes. A vault is a separate store for reusable project knowledge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting Strata on an existing codebase. It scans documentation, classifies candidate files, and creates decision, domain, or lesson notes as appropriate.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of moving useful information out of files such as CLAUDE.md, docs/, and .planning/ into the vault. It processes groups of files through worker agents and returns short summaries.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,647 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00109 $0.01647
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00823
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00329
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00165

Measured 2d ago against content hash c7693a3c59e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strata: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 2d 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.

skills/bootstrap/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

strata:bootstrap

Onboarding pass. Walk existing docs, dispatch each one to a worker Subagent, aggregate the results.

Posture: act, don't narrate

  • No upfront questions about scope unless the candidate count is > 50.
  • No tables, no recommendations, no "two-step plan" prose before starting work.
  • Source file content stays out of your context — that's the whole point of the workers. You see only the scan listing and the one-line worker summaries.
  • Final summary: one line plus counts. The user can /strata:review for detail.

Workflow

1. Scan

bootstrap_scan(unprocessed=true, bucket="fresh", verify=true,
               min_freshness=0.6, max_group_size=12)

Default pass: fresh docs only (<90d), claims verified, freshness ≥ 60%, dense parent dirs split into sub-groups of at most 12 files (by date prefix when filenames are dated). For a wider net, drop min_freshness to 0.4, or omit bucket so aging + old appear too.

max_group_size is what stops dense planning folders (a docs/plans/ with 40+ unrelated initiatives) from collapsing into 3-6 consolidated Notes. Pass max_group_size=12 for typical mixed-initiative folders; Omit it for folders where siblings genuinely describe one thing.

If after filtering the candidate count is > 50, ask the user once to Narrow scope (e.g. by directory). Otherwise proceed.

2. Get the vault dir

memory_status()

Note the vault_dir path printed in the response. You'll pass it to Each worker.

3. Dispatch by parent-dir GROUP, not by single file

The scan's JSON output (when --json is on) includes a dispatch_groups map keyed by parent directory. Sibling files in the same folder (e.g. .planning/auth-rewrite/PLAN.md + .../CONTEXT.md + .../SPEC.md) almost always describe the same Initiative, dispatch them to ONE worker that handles the set together and writes one consolidated note, not three near-duplicates. (Previous "one worker per file" dispatch produced the duplicate ADRs we saw on the earliest bootstrap runs.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 168 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A c7693a3c59e5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

strata:bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository gideondk/strata (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 1,647 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 2026-08-31.

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