operating-model-bootstrap

operating-model-bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience. It costs 65 tokens per session (3,126 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for defining how people and AI agents work safely together on a software project. It establishes ownership, authority, risk levels, evidence requirements, and rules for parallel work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting or adopting an agent-based repository, defining approval and risk rules, coordinating worktrees, binding reviews to a candidate commit, or repairing conflicting AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and GEMINI.md files.
Why use it?
It prevents fragmented project rules, unclear responsibility, conflicting changes, and reviews that are not tied to the exact code being delivered.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the join-the-team plugin — 21 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook 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/jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience/operating-model-bootstrap
Any agent
npx skills add jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience --skill operating-model-bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install join-the-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,126 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 $0.00065 $0.03126
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01563
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00625
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00313

Measured 4d ago against content hash ac576e13d41f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

operating-model-bootstrap 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/bootstrap_operating_model.py, scripts/inspect_repo.py, scripts/validate_operating_model.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/operating-model-bootstrap/SKILL.md · 253 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 253 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Operating Model Bootstrap

When to use

  • Starting a new repository or team project that will use AI agents or agent-harness skills
  • Adopting this harness into an existing project for the first time
  • Defining or repairing authority, risk tiers, lane isolation, or evidence-binding contracts
  • Coordinating parallel human and agent lanes safely (worktrees, ownership, integration)
  • Binding review to an exact candidate commit before R2/R3 work
  • Correcting fragmented or contradictory rules across AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and GEMINI.md

Establish a portable operating kernel and one tracked project profile. Treat humans, agents, skills, tools, and gates as one delivery system with explicit authority, ownership, evidence, and completion semantics. The day-one seed lets a new team begin system design and delivery planning while explicitly owned project unknowns are resolved.

Project awareness — seven areas to establish at init

The bootstrap must establish or explicitly own each of the following. Required areas must be answered before the profile leaves seed state. Optional areas have a recommended default; record not yet established — owner: role; required before: trigger for any unknown rather than leaving it blank or fabricating a value.

# Area Status Default if not declared
1 Product vision, objectives, actors, scope, out-of-scope, SOW / acceptance record Required None — must be declared
2 Team roster: PO, SMEs, integration owner, reviewer roles, escalation path Required None — must be declared
3 Technical stack: language, framework, architecture, repos, interfaces, runtime Required None — must be declared
4 Tooling: package manager, linter, type checker, unit / integration / e2e test commands Optional — recommended defaults Linting + validation + unit tests minimum
5 Cloud, hosting, data classification, residency, compliance, approved-vendor constraints Optional — advised Deduced from stack; invoke governance-guardrail to confirm policy alignment
6 Automation: CI/CD, branch policy, release process, deployment owner, rollback Optional — default provided GitHub SemVer + tag-based releases; invoke release-manager to document and confirm
7 Delivery controls: source of truth, issue/PR conventions, DoD, escalation triggers Optional — default provided GitHub stack; this repository's issues, ADRs, and architecture docs are the source of truth

Read the full file on GitHub · 253 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. 4d ago First seen · 253 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A ac576e13d41f

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operating-model-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience (11 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 3,126 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 2026-08-30.