create-project

create-project is a skill for Claude Code from john-wilmes/claude-agentic-coding-playbook. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,358 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project starter that creates a new folder with Git version control, standard ignore rules, project instructions, a GitHub repository, and a memory folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting an app, creating a repository, or scaffolding a project from a project name and a short description.
Why use it?
It removes the repetitive setup work and gives a new project a consistent starting structure.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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/john-wilmes/claude-agentic-coding-playbook/create-project
Any agent
npx skills add john-wilmes/claude-agentic-coding-playbook --skill create-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/john-wilmes/claude-agentic-coding-playbook

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,358 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 5.1 $0.00069 $0.01358
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00679
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00136

Measured 5d ago against content hash e3039f702922, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-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 5d 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.

profiles/combined/skills/create-project/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Project

Scaffold a new project following all global CLAUDE.md conventions.

Input

  • $ARGUMENTS = project name (required, kebab-case)

If no arguments provided, ask the user for a project name.

Steps

1. Determine install root

Run the install-root discovery helper:

INSTALL_ROOT=$(bash ~/.claude/scripts/skills/find-install-root.sh)

2. Gather requirements

Ask the user (single AskUserQuestion call):

  • Project type: Node/TypeScript, Python, static site, or other
  • Description: one-line summary for package.json and GitHub

3. Create directory

<INSTALL_ROOT>/<project-name>/

Fail if directory already exists.

4. Initialize git

cd <INSTALL_ROOT>/<project-name> && git init

5. Create .gitignore

Minimum entries per global CLAUDE.md Repository Hygiene rules:

  • node_modules/, dist/, .env*, *.log, .DS_Store, Thumbs.db

Add language-specific entries based on project type (e.g., __pycache__/ for Python, .next/ for Next.js).

6. Create project CLAUDE.md

Read the template at <INSTALL_ROOT>/.claude/templates/project-CLAUDE.md if available, otherwise use the built-in template.

Must include:

  • Project name and one-line description
  • Quality gate commands (type-check, lint, test) appropriate to the project type
  • Language and framework conventions
  • Architecture notes section (even if initially empty)
  • Build and dependency instructions

7. Create AGENTS.md

Generate an AGENTS.md file at the project root. This is a cross-tool convention (60k+ repos) that tells any AI coding assistant how to build, test, and lint the project.

Populate sections from the quality gate commands chosen in step 6:

# AGENTS.md

## Build

<build command from quality gates, or "No build step configured.">

## Test

<test command from quality gates, e.g. "npm test">

## Lint

<lint command from quality gates, e.g. "npx eslint .">

## General

- Follow existing code style and naming conventions.
- Write tests for new functionality.
- Do not commit credentials or secrets.

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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. 5d ago First seen · 170 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A e3039f702922

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository john-wilmes/claude-agentic-coding-playbook (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,358 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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