setup

setup is a skill for Claude Code from joao-aires/agent-skills-public. It costs 43 tokens per session (527 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-starting guide for creating a new application or taking over an existing repository, while discovering its commands, constraints, tooling, and first useful slice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for explicit project setup or adoption, including recording working commands, accepted constraints, environments, and important user journeys.
Why use it?
It prevents unnecessary restructuring and unverified assumptions by checking the project's layout, conventions, startup paths, migrations, tests, and missing prerequisites.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for explicit project setup or adoption, including recording working commands, accepted constraints, environments, and important user journeys.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joao-aires/agent-skills-public/setup
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 joao-aires/agent-skills-public --skill setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joao-aires/agent-skills-public

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 527 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.
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 $0.00043 $0.00527
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00211
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00053

Measured yesterday against content hash e5f5973730f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/development/skills/setup/SKILL.md · 35 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup

Read task guidance. Read git-contributions before foundation writes. Seek available delivery expertise for CI, artifact and recovery decisions. Read project-conventions for repository foundations and working commands. Load the optional stack/domain guidance selected by task guidance only when relevant and available.

Setup is technical foundation work, not a substitute for product discovery. Before architecture-dependent writes, establish the intended usage, bounded journey and material platform/licensing/budget constraints. For a rough idea needing end-to-end development, use the outcomes in new-application flow within the requested scope; a setup-only request does not authorize feature implementation or an unsolicited full business study.

Establish useful foundations

Use project-conventions to discover the repository, accepted stack, commands, identity model, environments and critical journey.

Project context Foundation work
New project Establish useful foundations for the requested first slice. Satisfy the applicable foundation contract, including authored onboarding, checks/tests, packaging and delivery artifacts.
Existing project Preserve working foundations, identify missing context and address the requested gaps without restructuring the application.

Connect the foundations into a usable development path. A contributor should be able to obtain the required configuration, install dependencies, start the application and run its checks using the documented commands. Where persistence is part of the slice, include how the local data store is prepared and how schema changes are applied. Use sample configuration that explains required values without containing secrets.

Ask about consequential product/platform choices, then record the accepted choices and working commands in existing instructions/docs. Run the available startup, migration and test paths far enough to expose missing dependencies or mismatched configuration. Distinguish artifacts prepared for a future target from a path actually exercised on that target. Name unresolved targets, missing prerequisites and unavailable tools.

Read the full file on GitHub · 35 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. yesterday Changed · +11 lines e5f5973730f8
  2. 2d ago Changed cac7dc6f3e54
  3. 3d ago Changed 7ed023b6ac13
  4. 5d ago Changed · +4 lines 0fc8eb084d34
  5. 7d ago First seen · 20 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A e9146a5f62bc

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setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository joao-aires/agent-skills-public (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 527 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-15.

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