bootstrap-project

bootstrap-project is a skill for Claude Code from jrjsmrtn/project-orchestration-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (9,301 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for creating or upgrading a software project’s foundation for AI-assisted development. It offers three levels of setup, from basic project instructions and Git to decision records, changelogs, and broader documentation patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a project, converting an existing one, or promoting it to a more documented setup with project instructions, Git conventions, decision records, pre-commit checks, and documentation patterns.
Why use it?
It gives a new or existing project a consistent starting structure and preserves important decisions as the project grows. Upgrading levels can build on the existing foundation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the project-orchestration-skills plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting a project, converting an existing one, or promoting it to a more documented setup with project instructions, Git conventions, decision records, pre-commit checks, and documentation patterns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jrjsmrtn/project-orchestration-skills/bootstrap-project
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 jrjsmrtn/project-orchestration-skills --skill bootstrap-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jrjsmrtn/project-orchestration-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install project-orchestration-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,301 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 146
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 139
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 147
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00067 $0.09301
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.04651
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.01860
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00930

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9ed19a909370, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bootstrap-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 11d 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/bootstrap-project/SKILL.md · 777 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 777 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Bootstrap

Bootstrap a new project with foundational artifacts following AI-Assisted Project Orchestration best practices. Implements the Tiered Bootstrap pattern with three graduation tiers (t0/t1/t2) so that decision rationale is captured at decision-time and tier promotion is reformatting, not archaeology.

When to Use

  • Starting a new software project (pick a tier appropriate to scope)
  • Promoting an existing project from a lower tier to a higher one
  • Converting an existing project to follow best practices
  • Setting up a project for AI-assisted development

Pattern Reference: See TIERED-BOOTSTRAP for the underlying pattern, including knowledge-preservation argument and the comparison with spec-driven development tools.

Required Inputs

Before running this skill, gather from the user:

  1. Project name (kebab-case, e.g., my-awesome-project)
  2. Project description (1-2 sentences)
  3. Tier (graduation level — see Tier Selection below):
    • t0 — minimum viable foundation (CLAUDE.md + git + conventional-commits)
    • t1 — decision-tracked project (+ foundation ADRs + pre-commit + changelog)
    • t2 — full pattern language (+ Diátaxis + C4 + sprint cadence + roadmap) — default
  4. Project category:
    • Development: Software (applications, libraries, services)
    • Infrastructure: Operations (homelab, deployment, monitoring)
    • Hybrid: Both development and operations components
  5. Project type (library, web application, CLI tool, API service, infrastructure automation)
  6. Technology stack (e.g., "Elixir/Phoenix/Ash", "Python/FastAPI", "Ansible")
  7. License (MIT, Apache-2.0, proprietary) — required at t1+, optional at t0
  8. Git remotes (private origin only, or multi-remote with public GitHub/GitLab)
  9. Distribution profile (exposure — orthogonal to the tier): Private (default — internal/homelab/WIP) or Public (open-sourced on a public forge and properly licensed). Set the ships-artifacts marker if the maintainer will publish built packages/images to a registry (Hex/PyPI/GHCR/containers) or signed release binaries. The profile governs which compliance controls apply — see Distribution Profile below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 777 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. 11d ago First seen · 777 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 9ed19a909370

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bootstrap-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository jrjsmrtn/project-orchestration-skills (15 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 9,301 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.