spellbook-setup

spellbook-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kid-sid/codex-spellbook. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,392 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A setup guide for installing and configuring Claude Spellbook, a collection of skills, agents, and commands for Claude Code. It covers using it across all projects or only one project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install Spellbook on a new machine, add selected tools to a project, register the memory_map MCP server, enable hooks, or verify and repair the setup.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork when installing Spellbook, choosing where its tools should be available, and fixing an existing installation. It also explains how to add persistent memory and automatic hooks.

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/kid-sid/codex-spellbook/spellbook-setup
Any agent
npx skills add kid-sid/codex-spellbook --skill spellbook-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kid-sid/codex-spellbook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,392 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00053 $0.02392
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01196
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00478
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00239

Measured 3d ago against content hash 73a1cbdd35fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

spellbook-setup scanned grade C with 2 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 3d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

cat ~/.claude/settings.json # look for "hooks" key

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

ls ~/.claude/skills/ # global
skills/spellbook-setup/SKILL.md · 281 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 281 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Spellbook Setup

Install and configure claude-spellbook — globally (all projects) or scoped to one project.

When to Activate

  • Installing claude-spellbook on a new machine or for a new user
  • Deciding between global and project-level skill/agent install
  • Setting up the memory_map MCP server for persistent memory
  • Enabling auto-format, safety, and history hooks in settings.json
  • Adding spellbook skills/commands to a single project without touching global config
  • Verifying or repairing an existing spellbook install

Prerequisites

Requirement Check
Claude Code CLI claude --version
Git git --version
Python 3.9+ (for memory_map) python --version or python3 --version

Clone the Repo

git clone https://github.com/kid-sid/claude-spellbook.git
cd claude-spellbook

Global install puts skills, agents, and commands into ~/.claude/ so they are available in every project without any per-project steps.

Step 1 — Skills

# All skills (recommended — they activate on-demand, no overhead)
cp -r skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

# Single skill
cp -r skills/security ~/.claude/skills/

Step 2 — Agents

cp -r .claude/agents/* ~/.claude/agents/

Step 3 — Slash Commands

cp -r .claude/commands/* ~/.claude/commands/

Step 4 — memory_map MCP Server

# Clone and install
git clone https://github.com/kid-sid/memory_map.git
cd memory_map

# Windows
python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\pip install -r requirements.txt

# Mac/Linux
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate && pip install -r requirements.txt

# Register globally (substitute your actual username)
# Windows
claude mcp add -s user memory_map C:/Users/yourname/memory_map/venv/Scripts/python.exe C:/Users/yourname/memory_map/server.py

# Mac/Linux
claude mcp add -s user memory_map python3 /home/yourname/memory_map/server.py

Verify registration:

claude mcp list

Read the full file on GitHub · 281 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. 3d ago First seen · 281 lines · 53 tokens per session scan C 73a1cbdd35fc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spellbook-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository kid-sid/codex-spellbook (21 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,392 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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