init-workspace-discovery

init-workspace-discovery is a skill for Claude Code from griddynamics/rosetta. It costs 10 tokens per session (743 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workspace-initialization skill that creates or updates a factual inventory of a software project. It documents the technologies, dependencies, directory structure, and important source files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting work in a repository or when its project documentation is missing or stale. It helps identify languages, frameworks, build tools, package managers, and the main code paths.
Why use it?
It prevents later work from relying on an incomplete or outdated understanding of the codebase. The inventory gives developers a shared starting point before making changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when starting work in a repository or when its project documentation is missing or stale. It helps identify languages, frameworks, build tools, package managers, and the main code paths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/griddynamics/rosetta/init-workspace-discovery
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add griddynamics/rosetta --skill init-workspace-discovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/griddynamics/rosetta

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 743 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 7
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00010 $0.00743
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00297
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00074

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d3280d7ee304, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init-workspace-discovery 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 2mo 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.

instructions/r2/core/skills/init-workspace-discovery/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<init_workspace_discovery>

<when_to_use_skill>

Without factual inventory of tech stack, structure, and dependencies, subsequent phases operate blind. Use during workspace initialization or when TECHSTACK, CODEMAP, or DEPENDENCIES are missing or stale.

</when_to_use_skill>

  1. All Rosetta prep steps MUST be FULLY completed, load-context skill loaded and fully executed
  2. Read existing TECHSTACK, CODEMAP, DEPENDENCIES — update if present, create if missing
  3. Detect languages, frameworks, build tools, package managers, runtime environments → write TECHSTACK
  4. Existing documentation may be stale or incomplete, prioritize source code artifacts over pre-existing documents
  5. Generate CODEMAP via shell commands (no pseudo graphics), 3-4 levels deep
    • Perform basic discovery yourself with few commands
    • Enumerate git repositories yourself
    • Markdown headers = workspace-relative path + recursive children count + <10 words description
    • List only immediate children files and only with file names
    • List target repository source code, static assets, and documentation files based on tech stack
    • Exclude noise/caches/build/binary files, files excluded by .gitignore
    • Implement as a single shell script in agents/TEMP/ folder
    • Use git ls-files --cached --others --exclude-standard in each repository or fallback to find/ls/etc with filters
  6. List direct dependencies (project, package, version) → write DEPENDENCIES
  7. Preserve human-added sections in existing files
  8. Update (or create only if missing) .gitignore in git root folder by adding lines according to bootstrap_rosetta_files Minimal set must be present:
    ...
    # Rosetta
    agents/TEMP/
    refsrc/
    !refsrc/INDEX.md
    

DEPENDENCIES.md

  • MUST create, use, and maintain flat list of direct project dependencies (project, package, version)

TECHSTACK.md

  • MUST create, use, and maintain project stack and key stack decisions

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 2mo ago First seen · 90 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A d3280d7ee304

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init-workspace-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository griddynamics/rosetta (363 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 743 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.