bootstrap

bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jstoup111/ai-conductor. It costs 39 tokens per session (6,508 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project setup guide that detects an application's type, technology stack, and structure, then creates project-specific configuration and working directories. It supports both new projects and existing codebases.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps start a new project, onboard an existing one, or set up the harness for the first time. It creates a CLAUDE.md file and directories for pipeline state, memory, and documentation.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of figuring out how a project is organized and preparing the harness to work with it. It also handles projects where setup is incomplete.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/jstoup111/ai-conductor/bootstrap
Any agent
npx skills add jstoup111/ai-conductor --skill bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jstoup111/ai-conductor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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 bootstrap

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jstoup111/ai-conductor/bootstrap.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jstoup111/ai-conductor/bootstrap)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jstoup111/ai-conductor/bootstrap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jstoup111/ai-conductor/bootstrap.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,508 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00039 $0.06508
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.03254
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01302
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00651

Measured 5d ago against content hash e12602e3e517, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bootstrap scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

for manual-test automation. Skip for API-only (curl suffices).
skills/bootstrap/SKILL.md · 523 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 523 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Detects the target project's type, tech stack, and structure, then generates a project-specific CLAUDE.md that references the harness skills. Sets up project directories for pipeline state, memory, and documentation artifacts.

Works for both new projects (empty or freshly scaffolded) and existing projects (with code, tests, and history already in place).

Path resolution: every templates/*.template and tech-context/* path referenced below is relative to the harness root (the directory containing this skill's parent skills/, plus templates/, tech-context/, and HARNESS.md) — never relative to this skill's own directory, which contains only SKILL.md. Resolve the harness root by following the symlink at your own skill path, e.g. readlink ~/.claude/skills/bootstrap<harness-root>/skills/bootstrap, then go up two directories.

Practices

1. Determine Bootstrap Mode

Indicator Mode (bootstrap_mode value)
Empty directory or no project files new — scaffold first (Step 1b)
Project files exist but no harness artifacts fresh — full harness setup
.memory/ or .docs/ exist but some missing partial — fill gaps only
All harness artifacts exist re-bootstrap — update detection, re-run smoke test

Also check maturity: 50+ commits = mature, 5+ model files = substantial, existing specs = assess coverage, existing CLAUDE.md = preserve, don't overwrite.

Persist the detected mode into .pipeline/conduct-state.json under the key bootstrap_mode with one of the four string values above (new, fresh, partial, re-bootstrap). This MUST happen before any downstream step dispatches, because the conductor uses the value to skip steps that have no material to act on — notably assess, which is skipped when mode is new (no codebase yet = nothing for the 9 specialists to evaluate). If the value is missing or unrecognized, the conductor defaults to running every step, so a missing write silently loses the optimization but never breaks the flow.

Read the full file on GitHub · 523 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 523 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A e12602e3e517

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository jstoup111/ai-conductor (7 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 6,508 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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