raven-init

raven-init is a skill for Claude Code from giggsoinc/raven. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,770 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project setup assistant that scans a codebase, detects its technology stack, and creates Raven’s project configuration file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding Raven to a project, generating its manifest, checking the setup, and recording the setup in Git.
Why use it?
It removes much of the manual setup work and avoids asking questions when the needed details can be found in project files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the raven plugin — 63 skills, 13 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when adding Raven to a project, generating its manifest, checking the setup, and recording the setup in Git.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add giggsoinc/raven
Claude Code
/plugin install raven

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install raven, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 63 skills, 13 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,770 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.
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 $0.00041 $0.01770
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00708
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00354
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00177

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bf084058ebf8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

raven-init 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 1mo 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/raven-init/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/raven init — Andie-Conversational Setup

Replaces the legacy 7-step interactive wizard with an Andie-driven conversation. Auto-detects everything possible, asks only what cannot be inferred.


Entry Points

This skill is invoked by:

  1. Andie Branch A onboarding — fires automatically when no manifest exists and user confirms "OK to proceed".
  2. Explicit /raven init — user runs the command directly.
  3. andie init — user invokes Andie for setup.

Pre-checks

  1. Is .raven/manifest.json already present?

    • YES → Load it. Trust it. Proceed with the declared stack. Do not reinitialize. Do not modify unless user explicitly requests it.
    • NO → Run the auto-scan flow below.
  2. Is Git initialized?

    • NO → Note silently: "Git not initialized — audit trail will start when you git init." Continue.

Auto-Scan (Silent, Fast)

Scan the project root for these signals. No prompts. No noise. Just detect.

Signal File Infers
package.json Node/JS · framework from deps (React/Vue/Next/etc.) · scripts
pyproject.toml / requirements.txt / setup.py Python · libraries · framework (FastAPI/Django/Flask)
Cargo.toml Rust
go.mod Go
pom.xml / build.gradle Java/Kotlin
Gemfile Ruby
sfdx-project.json / force-app/ Salesforce
__manifest__.py Odoo
*.tf files Terraform
Dockerfile / docker-compose.yml Container stack
helm/ / charts/ / k8s/ Kubernetes
.env* / secrets.json Mark as sensitive — do NOT read
git remote -v Owner (from GitHub URL)
.git/config Branch info

Output silently to working memory — NOT to the user.


Inference Rules

From the scan, infer the manifest defaults:

Manifest field Inference source
project Folder name
owner git remote URL (giggsoinc/foo → "giggsoinc")
stack.language From signal files above
stack.frontend From package.json frameworks
stack.db From requirements (psycopg2 → postgres, etc.)
stack.infra From .tf, Dockerfile, k8s/ presence
stack.cloud "on-prem" default, override if AWS/Azure/GCP detected
stack.libraries From requirements/package.json
standards "raven-v1" default
approval_mode "first_responder" default

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 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. 1mo ago First seen · 202 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A bf084058ebf8

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raven-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository giggsoinc/raven (5 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,770 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 2026-09-03.

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