repository-builder

repository-builder is a skill for Claude Code from jrpease/throughline. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,233 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns a working folder into a monorepo—a single repository containing multiple related apps and packages. Its default setup uses pnpm and Turborepo and includes areas for shared tokens, UI components, and future apps.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for setting up the repository files, workspace configuration, package folders, environment-variable examples, and the progression from a folder to local Git and GitHub.
Why use it?
It gives a growing project a consistent structure and moves it toward version control, while keeping shared code organized.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the throughline plugin — 12 skills, 5 commands, 4 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for setting up the repository files, workspace configuration, package folders…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jrpease/throughline/repository-builder
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 jrpease/throughline --skill repository-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jrpease/throughline

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install throughline, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 5 commands, 4 agents, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,233 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 $0.00000 $0.02233
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01117
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00447
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00223

Measured 7d ago against content hash a000e0dd8d69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

repository-builder 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 7d 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.

adapters/generic/skills/repository-builder/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repository builder

Turns the user's working folder into a scalable monorepo and advances their version-control stage. Defaults: pnpm + Turborepo, with a layout ready to grow into a full app:

my-design-system/
├── design-system.json        (the manifest, already here)
├── package.json              (workspace root)
├── pnpm-workspace.yaml
├── turbo.json
├── .gitignore
├── .env.example
├── packages/
│   ├── tokens/               (synced token output lands here — skill 6)
│   └── ui/                   (components / Storybook live here — skill 7)
└── apps/                     (empty, ready for a Next.js app later)

Calibrate first

Read user.codingLevel from the manifest and .throughline/references/coding-level.md. Everything below describes the actions, which are identical for every user. How much you explain each concept scales with the level — new gets plain- language teaching of repos, env files, and secrets; comfortable gets terse action statements. The hard secret-safety rules never scale.

The folder → local-git → github progression

Scope check first. If the user is bringing an existing app to retrofit or migrate (not scaffolding a clean monorepo) — or the repo work is entangled with a larger re-architecture — that has outgrown this skill. Follow .throughline/references/scaling-up-handoff.md: surface risks and major parts, confirm scope, and brainstorm/plan first (handing off to Superpowers if available, else planning natively — never required). For a normal scaffold-from-scratch, continue here.

The user is at one of three workspace.stage values. This skill advances them one step at a time, introducing each concept only when its payoff is concrete. Read the current stage from the manifest and pick up where they are.

Stage A → scaffold the monorepo (still just a folder)

Create the workspace files (root package.json, pnpm-workspace.yaml, turbo.json, packages/tokens, packages/ui, apps/, a sensible .gitignore, and a .env.example). Record repo.packageManager = pnpm, repo.monorepo = turborepo.

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. 7d ago First seen · 178 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a000e0dd8d69

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repository-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository jrpease/throughline (76 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,233 tokens. 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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