init

init is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from joestump/claude-plugin-sdd. It costs 46 tokens per session (7,418 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project setup workflow that adds software design context to CLAUDE.md, a file that gives coding agents instructions about a repository. It also checks that the qmd search command is installed.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps initialize the project's agent instructions and configure references for the software design workflow.
Why use it?
It gives agent sessions the project information they need to make architecture-aware changes and catches a required setup dependency early.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sdd plugin — 20 skills 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/joestump/claude-plugin-sdd/init
Any agent
npx skills add joestump/claude-plugin-sdd --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joestump/claude-plugin-sdd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sdd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

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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 init

README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,418 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 $0.00046 $0.07418
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.03709
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01484
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00742

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1eb22bffefcf, 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 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/init/SKILL.md · 367 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 367 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Initialize SDD Plugin

Harness portability. This skill runs on any agent harness that loads Agent Skills — Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Crush. Tool names used below (AskUserQuestion, Task, TeamCreate, SendMessage, TaskCreate, ToolSearch, mcp__*, ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}) denote capabilities, not hard requirements: map each to your harness's equivalent or use the documented fallback per ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/harness-compat.md. References to CLAUDE.md mean the project memory file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, or CRUSH.md) per harness-compat § "Project Memory File".

Set up the project's CLAUDE.md with architecture context so Claude sessions are design-aware. This skill uses componentized convergence — each component independently checks its own state and converges. No single gate blocks other components. Running init N times produces the same result as running it once.

Starting v5.0.0, init also enforces a hardware/install precondition: the qmd CLI MUST be available on PATH (per ADR-0024). If qmd is missing, init refuses to operate so users discover the dependency at setup, not three skills deep into a workflow.

Process

Module support: If $ARGUMENTS contains --module <name>, resolve the module root using the Workspace Detection pattern from ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/shared-patterns.md. All CLAUDE.md reads and writes in the steps below target the module's CLAUDE.md at the module root instead of the project root. If workspace detection finds no modules and --module is provided, error: "No modules detected. Run /sdd:init without --module first to set up workspace."

Read the full file on GitHub · 367 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. 3d ago First seen · 367 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 1eb22bffefcf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a skill published in the GitHub repository joestump/claude-plugin-sdd (31 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 7,418 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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