bootstrap

bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code from HezaoHezao/poirot. It costs 11 tokens per session (1,226 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversational onboarding process that learns about a user and writes a short profile for the agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather user context over several adaptive rounds and create a .poirot/profile.md file.
Why use it?
It avoids making the agent repeatedly guess the user’s preferences, needs, and working style.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to gather user context over several adaptive rounds and create a .poirot/profile.md file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hezaohezao/poirot/bootstrap
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,226 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00011 $0.01226
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00613
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00123

Measured 8d ago against content hash 370a9d497683, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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.

poirot/backend/agents/skill/builtin_skills/core/bootstrap/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bootstrap Profile

A conversational onboarding skill. Through 5–8 adaptive rounds, extract who the user is and what they need, then generate a tight .poirot/profile.md that defines the agent's working relationship with this user.

Poirot note: The original deer-flow skill generates a SOUL.md via a setup_agent tool. Poirot has no setup_agent tool or SOUL.md concept. This version generates .poirot/profile.md (a user profile) via write_file.

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, agent name
3. Personality How the agent should behave and talk Core traits, communication style, autonomy level, pushback preference
4. Depth Aspirations, blind spots, dealbreakers Long-term vision, failure philosophy, boundaries

Extraction Tracker

Mentally track these fields as the conversation progresses. You need all required fields before generating.

Field Required Source Phase
Preferred language 1
User's name 2
User's role / context 2
Agent name 2
Relationship framing 2
Core traits (3–5 behavioral rules) 3
Communication style 3
Pushback / honesty preference 3
Autonomy level 3
Failure philosophy 4
Long-term vision nice-to-have 4
Blind spots / boundaries nice-to-have 4

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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. 8d ago First seen · 148 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 370a9d497683

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bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository HezaoHezao/poirot (215 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 1,226 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.

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