squid-scaffold

squid-scaffold is a skill for Claude Code from iusztinpaul/squid. It costs 42 tokens per session (3,029 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for creating a new repository or component from a defined set of project rules, or checking an existing scaffolded repository for drift. A scaffold is the initial project structure and configuration prepared before application code is written.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create project instructions, skills, folder structure, and Claude Code links, or to audit an existing scaffold without changing it.
Why use it?
It gives new projects a consistent foundation and can reveal when an existing project no longer follows its agreed structure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the squid plugin — 15 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create project instructions, skills, folder structure, and Claude Code links, or to audit an existing scaffold without changing it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iusztinpaul/squid/squid-scaffold
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 iusztinpaul/squid --skill squid-scaffold
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iusztinpaul/squid

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install squid, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 5 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for squid-scaffold

README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,029 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 $0.00042 $0.03029
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01515
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00606
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00303

Measured 3d ago against content hash a4e9daa1d911, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

squid-scaffold 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 3d 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/squid-scaffold/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scaffold

Interactive bootstrap for a new repo (or a new component in an existing one): read only the specs under specs/ that apply, distil them into a tailored AGENTS.md, lay down an empty skeleton, hand back.

Modes

$ARGUMENTS may lead with mode=create (default) or mode=evaluate:

  • mode=create (default) — bootstrap a repo / component. The flow in "## Flow" below.
  • mode=evaluate — audit an existing scaffolded repo for drift (report-only). For mode=evaluate, read evaluate.md and follow E1–E4 instead of the Flow.

Every rule both modes honour lives in rules.md — the single source of truth; mode=create follows every P# + I# while composing, mode=evaluate audits the I#. Do not restate any rule in this file.

When to use

  • Bootstrapping a brand-new repo.
  • Adding a new runtime component (backend / frontend-web / frontend-tui) to an existing scaffolded repo.
  • Re-generating the root AGENTS.md after a major stack change (e.g. swapping Vue for React).

When NOT to use

  • Authoring application source or business logic (P1).
  • Adjusting opinions inside an existing project — edit the generated AGENTS.md directly.
  • Non-polyglot single-package projects where the full machinery is overkill. (You can still use a single spec as reference, but skip the scaffold flow.)

Flow

1. Gather requirements

Use AskUserQuestion to collect answers. Consolidate where possible — one or two prompts, not a twelve-step interview. Minimum set:

  1. Project identity — name, short description, license (MIT / Apache-2.0 / proprietary). Name becomes the repo / root AGENTS.md title; slug is derived.
  2. Layout — monorepo (packages/<c>/ tree) or standalone single-package?
  3. Components (multi-select; at least one required):
    • backend — Python service / pipeline / library
    • frontend-web — TypeScript browser SPA
    • frontend-tui — Go terminal UI
  4. Backend variant (if backend chosen): fastapi-service / fastmcp-server / cli-tool-python / library-only.
  5. Frontend-web framework (if frontend-web chosen): react / vue / svelte / vanilla.
  6. Frontend-tui framework (if frontend-tui chosen): bubbletea (default) / tview.
  7. Shared OpenAPI contracts (only if backend + ≥1 frontend): yes / no.
  8. Infra (multi-select): docker, github-actions, pre-commit-hooks.
  9. Agent team + tracker? yes (recommended) / no. Also: file-based tracker or GitHub Issues?
  10. Process & documentation (multi-select, optional): adr (Architecture Decision Records under docs/adr/), ubiquitous-language (project glossary at docs/glossary.md). Recommend adr for any project expected to live > 6 months; recommend ubiquitous-language for backend services with named domain entities.
  11. External services (optional, multi-select — skip any category that doesn't apply). Each selection pulls a specs/<category>-<choice>.md stub and emits a one-line bullet into the generated AGENTS.md, wrapped per I9:
  • Datastore: mongodb / postgresql / redis / sqlite / other / none
  • Orchestrator: prefect / dagster / temporal / other / none
  • Observability & evals: opik / opentelemetry / sentry / other / none
  • LLM API: anthropic / openai / gemini / other / none
  • Embedding API: voyageai / openai / sentence-transformers / other / none
  • Model serving: modal / replicate / other / none
  • Web scraping: firecrawl / playwright / requests-bs4 / other / none

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 lines

Files

What ships with it

49 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. 3d ago Changed · -131 lines a4e9daa1d911
  2. 8d ago First seen · 304 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 175fa6c6464f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

squid-scaffold is a skill published in the GitHub repository iusztinpaul/squid (184 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 3,029 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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