init

A one-time setup command for a ticket-flow project, including its Beads task tracker, specification folders, and Git worktree settings. It can also migrate an existing KANBAN.md board into Beads.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding ticket-flow to a project, passing setup options to Beads, or migrating an older board-based setup.
Why use it?
It prepares a repository for the ticket workflow and establishes the files and directories needed to manage and implement tickets.

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/keefar/ticket-flow/init
Any agent
npx skills add keefar/ticket-flow --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/keefar/ticket-flow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,980 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 $0.00108 $0.04980
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.02490
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00996
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00498

Measured yesterday against content hash 34d420cd8999, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 10 executable files (install-routing-rule.sh, install-worktree-include.sh, set-worktree-baseref.sh, …), 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/init/SKILL.md · 294 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 294 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/ticket-flow:init — Scaffold ticket-flow project files

Args:

  • (none) — scaffold the project (beads is the only backend). --mode=beads / --beads are accepted as no-op legacy spellings; --mode=kanban is refused with a pointer to the removed mode.
  • Pass-throughs (forwarded to bd init): --skip-agents, --stealth, --non-interactive, --prefix, --role, etc.

What it does

Sets up a project for ticket-flow on beads — the only backend since the mode=kanban removal (the dual-mode code is preserved at refs/archive/mode-kanban). No .ticket-flow flag is written anymore; a leftover mode=kanban flag marks an unmigrated project and this skill is the migration path.

Scaffolding:

  • docs/specs/SPEC-TEMPLATE.md — template that /ticket-flow:spec copies from
  • docs/superpowers/plans/.gitkeep — directory for implementation plans (used by superpowers:writing-plans)
  • .claude/worktrees/ — directory where /ticket-flow:pickup creates branch worktrees
  • .worktreeinclude — gitignored local config (.env, *.local, …) that must follow a ticket into its worktree; seeded from what the repo actually has, skipped when there is nothing (via skills/init/install-worktree-include.sh)
  • .claude/settings.jsonworktree.symlinkDirectories — dependency directories (node_modules, vendor, …) linked back to the main checkout instead of reinstalled per worktree; build outputs deliberately excluded (via skills/init/set-worktree-symlinks.sh)
  • .claude/rules/ticket-flow-routing.md — the Ticket-Flow Routing rule (via skills/init/install-routing-rule.sh) so planning/ideation prompts route through tf instead of superpowers:brainstorming or superpowers:writing-plans. A rule without a paths: frontmatter key loads at launch with the same priority as .claude/CLAUDE.md (memory docs) — same effect, without writing into the consumer project's own CLAUDE.md. Idempotent (the file's existence is the guard); a routing block left in CLAUDE.md by an older init is removed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 294 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. yesterday First seen · 294 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 34d420cd8999

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a skill published in the GitHub repository keefar/ticket-flow (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 4,980 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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