init

A research-sprint setup guide that turns a research question, intended audience, limits, and definition of success into the files and configuration needed for the sprint.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize a sprint with the provided command-line tool and confirm that the sprint files, guidance, output folders, and pre-commit hook were created.
Why use it?
It prevents important research requirements from being omitted and creates a consistent starting point for the work.

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/grainulation/grainulator/init
Any agent
npx skills add grainulation/grainulator --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grainulation/grainulator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 394 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 $0.00016 $0.00394
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00197
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00039

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3b3296fc73d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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/init/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

/init -- Start a new research sprint

The user wants to start a new research sprint.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS

Instructions

  1. Parse the user's input to extract:

    • Question: The core research question. If not explicit, ask.
    • Audience: Who will consume the output (engineers, product, executives, etc.). Default to the repo context if detectable.
    • Constraints: Any hard requirements or boundaries (semicolon-separated).
    • Done criteria: What "done" looks like for this sprint.
  2. Delegate to the canonical CLI init. Do NOT manually create claims.json or call wheat_add-claim. Run the full init via the Bash tool:

    npx -y @grainulation/wheat init --headless \
      --question "<question>" \
      --audience "<audience>" \
      --constraints "<constraint1>; <constraint2>" \
      --done "<done criteria>"
    

    This creates all sprint files: claims.json, CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .mcp.json, .gitignore, .claude/commands/wheat/, output directories, and the pre-commit hook. Using the CLI ensures the skill path and CLI path produce identical results.

  3. After init completes, call wheat_status to verify the sprint was created successfully.

  4. Print a summary:

    Sprint initialized: <slug>
    Question: <question>
    Audience: <audience>
    Claims: <count>
    
    Next steps:
      /research <topic>  -- start gathering evidence
      /status             -- view sprint dashboard
    
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 · 53 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 3b3296fc73d2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a skill published in the GitHub repository grainulation/grainulator (87 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 394 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.