init

A one-time setup tool for projects using the magi-workflow structure. It checks for standard project guidance and planning files, such as a README, product requirements, technical stack, and backlog.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adopting magi-workflow in a new or existing project, or run it again safely to check whether the expected files are present.
Why use it?
It shows which project files are missing and can create basic ones without replacing files that already exist.

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/howar31/magi-workflow/init
Any agent
npx skills add howar31/magi-workflow --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/howar31/magi-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,385 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 $0.00076 $0.02385
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.01192
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00477
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00238

Measured 2d ago against content hash 024b0a54c567, 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 · 322 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 322 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/magi:init — project bootstrap

You are the coordinator. Detect which magi-workflow files are missing in this project and offer to scaffold the missing ones with minimal templates. Existing files are never overwritten. You do not write production code.

0. Preflight

PLUGIN_ROOT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-}"
[[ -z "$PLUGIN_ROOT" ]] && PLUGIN_ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE[0]")/../.." 2>/dev/null && pwd)"
USER_CONFIG="$HOME/.config/magi-workflow/config.json"

If $USER_CONFIG is missing, tell the user to run /magi:setup first (init needs output_language from there).

This skill does not require a git repo, but warns the user if not in one (a typical magi-workflow project will be).

1. Scan for missing files

Check existence of each well-known project file:

Path Tier Role
CLAUDE.md 1 (root) AI agent entry / instructions index
README.md 1 (root) Human-readable project description
SPEC.md 1 (root) Architecture & feature spec for AI agents
magi/PRD.md 2 (magi/) Product requirements
magi/TECHSTACK.md 2 (magi/) Tech stack constraints
magi/BACKLOG.md 2 (magi/) Pending items promoted from sprint DRIFT.md

Build two lists:

  • missing — files that don't exist
  • existing — files that do exist (will be skipped, never modified)

Show the user both lists clearly.

If missing is empty, tell the user "project is already bootstrapped" and suggest /magi:plan for next steps. Exit.

1.5. Context gathering (empty/new project detection)

After scanning, check whether this is a greenfield project (no existing code files beyond what magi-workflow creates):

code_files=$(find . -maxdepth 3 -type f \
  -not -path './.git/*' \
  -not -path './magi/*' \
  -not -name 'CLAUDE.md' \
  -not -name 'README.md' \
  -not -name 'SPEC.md' \
  -not -name '.gitignore' \
  -not -name 'LICENSE' \
  | head -5 | wc -l)

If code_files == 0 (empty/greenfield project), enter guided init mode:

Read the full file on GitHub · 322 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 · 322 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 024b0a54c567

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a skill published in the GitHub repository howar31/magi-workflow (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 2,385 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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