setting-up-a-project

setting-up-a-project is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JetBrains/thinkrail. It costs 76 tokens per session (494 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A starting workflow for turning a new or existing code project into a structured set of specifications. It first checks whether the project already has specifications and source code, then chooses the appropriate setup path.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps initialize an empty project, document an existing codebase, or extend an existing specification structure.
Why use it?
It prevents agents from repeating existing analysis or starting feature work before the project's goals and requirements are documented.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps initialize an empty project, document an existing codebase, or extend an existing specification structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jetbrains/thinkrail/setting-up-a-project
About the project

JetBrains/thinkrail is a desktop and mobile client that embeds the pi coding agent inside an interface for editing code and managing development workspaces. Developers use it to work on Git repositories through separate worktrees, a Monaco editor, terminals, Git views, specifications, and concurrent agent sessions. The catalogue entries are skills and instructions for its agent-based development workflow.

JetBrains/thinkrail · 423 stars · on GitHub · thinkrail.ai

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 JetBrains/thinkrail --skill setting-up-a-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 494 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 $0.00076 $0.00494
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00247
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00049

Measured 7d ago against content hash 057f0aae9417, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setting-up-a-project 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 7d 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.

packages/pi-thinkrail-workflow/skills/setting-up-a-project/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Setting up a project — dispatcher

The single entry point for turning a project into a spec graph. Figure out which situation you're in, then follow the matching skill — don't improvise the flow yourself.

1. Detect

Look at the workspace and use the spec tools (spec_grep / spec_graph):

  • Is there already a spec graph (a goal-and-requirements.md or any SPEC.md)?
  • Is there real source code, or is the repo empty / near-empty (just a README or scaffolding)?

2. Route

Situation Follow
Already has specs Don't redo it. Briefly offer to review/extend the graph (fill obvious gaps — a missing architecture.md, un-specced modules) or point at the brainstorming skill for feature work. Declined → stop. Accepted → Graph extension below.
No specs · empty / near-empty repo The starting-a-new-project skill — interview the user to turn the idea into goal-and-requirements.md.
No specs · real source code The importing-a-codebase skill — analyze the code + agent files and draft the first spec graph, asking only for intent the code can't reveal.

Read and follow that skill's steps.

Graph extension (no dedicated skill)

No skill covers extending an existing graph. If the offer is accepted: say so in one line, then align and adapt to the user's request with your own judgment, holding the writing-specs bar.

Handoff

Ends by naming exactly one of: starting-a-new-project, importing-a-codebase, or — when specs already exist — the review/extend offer above (declined → stop; accepted → graph extension: a one-line note that no skill covers it, then judgment against the writing-specs bar).

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. 7d ago First seen · 38 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 057f0aae9417

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setting-up-a-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository JetBrains/thinkrail (423 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 494 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 2026-08-30.

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