setup-project

A project setup and repository-maintenance skill. It checks or creates common files such as the ignore list, license, README, editor settings, and AI-tool configuration, and can detect a monorepo—a repository containing several related projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit an existing repository, initialize a new one, fix detected problems, or scaffold project-specific skill extensions.
Why use it?
It helps find missing or inconsistent project basics before they cause confusion for contributors or development tools.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the devops plugin — 23 skills, 12 agents, 5 hooks, 3 MCP servers shipped together

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/jerry0022/dotclaude/setup-project
Any agent
npx skills add Jerry0022/dotclaude --skill setup-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jerry0022/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install devops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 12 agents, 5 hooks, 3 MCP servers.

Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,841 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00097 $0.02841
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01421
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00568
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00284

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0d734fb6ea1d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-project scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Asks the agent to reveal its instructionslowSystem prompt leakage

Directions to print, repeat or translate the system prompt extract configuration the operator did not intend to expose.

4. **`--fix` action**: print instructions to enable **Settings → Bypass permissions mode** in the

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/devops/skills/setup-project/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup Project — Repo Hygiene

Audit or initialize a project's repository structure.

Step 0 — Load Extensions

Check for optional overrides. Use Glob to verify each path exists before reading. Do NOT call Read on files that may not exist — skip missing files silently (no output).

  1. Global: ~/.claude/skills/setup-project/SKILL.md + reference.md
  2. Project: {project}/.claude/skills/setup-project/SKILL.md + reference.md
  3. Merge: project > global > plugin defaults

Arguments

  • --audit: Check existing repo and report issues (default for existing repos)
  • --init: Full initialization — create missing files, set up ignores, scaffold extensions
  • --fix: Auto-fix issues found during audit

No argument: detect if repo is new (no commits) → --init, otherwise → --audit.

Step 1 — Analyze the project

  1. git status — is this a git repo?
  2. Detect tech stack from manifest files (package.json, Cargo.toml, pyproject.toml, go.mod, *.csproj)
  3. Read existing .gitignore
  4. Check LICENSE, README.md, .claude/ directory
  5. Detect monorepo structure (packages/, apps/, workspaces)

Step 2 — .gitignore

2.1 — Language/Framework ignores (dynamic)

Instead of shipping static templates, fetch the appropriate rules:

  1. Detect the project's language/framework from Step 1
  2. Fetch from gitignore.io API: https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/{stack}
    • Example: node, python, rust, go, csharp, java
  3. For IDEs, also fetch: visualstudiocode, intellij, vim, etc.
  4. Merge fetched rules with the mandatory sections below

If the API is unavailable, fall back to basic rules from Claude's knowledge.

2.2 — Claude / AI tooling ignores (mandatory, always included)

See deep-knowledge/claude-directory-structure.md for the canonical .claude/ layout.

MUST be tracked (never ignore):

  • CLAUDE.md, .claudeignore (root level, required by Claude Code)
  • .claude/commands/, .claude/skills/, .claude/hooks/
  • .claude/settings.json, .claude/agents/, .claude/agents.json, .claude/launch.json
  • .claude/graphify.json — the graph opt-out/consent record. It is a deliberate project decision, not runtime state, and ignoring it silently re-enables the graph for everyone who clones the repo.
  • .claude/deep-knowledge/, .claude/project-map.md — authored content.

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 First seen · 292 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 0d734fb6ea1d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jerry0022/dotclaude (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 2,841 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (asks the agent to reveal its instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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