project-blueprint

project-blueprint is a skill for Claude Code from Kin9Zeus/senior-engineer-skills. It costs 148 tokens per session (2,219 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for planning and starting a new software project. It covers requirements, technology choices, architecture, data, security, delivery automation, testing, monitoring, legal needs and search visibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify users, core transactions, data, integrations and constraints, then scaffold a project in an order that supports reliable construction and release.
Why use it?
It helps resolve important decisions early, before changing the project becomes expensive or requires major retrofitting.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the senior-engineer-skills plugin — 15 skills, 7 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to clarify users, core transactions, data, integrations and constraints, then scaffold a project in an order that supports reliable construction and release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kin9zeus/senior-engineer-skills/project-blueprint
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 Kin9Zeus/senior-engineer-skills --skill project-blueprint
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kin9Zeus/senior-engineer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install senior-engineer-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 7 commands, 4 agents.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 148 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,219 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 $0.00148 $0.02219
Opus 5 $0.00074 $0.01110
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00222

Measured 11d ago against content hash 584b795007b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-blueprint 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/project-blueprint/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Blueprint

Anything retrofitted costs five to fifty times what it costs to build in. The order below is not stylistic — it is ordered by the cost of getting it wrong later.

Never start typing code from a one-line brief. Ten minutes of Phase 1 saves weeks. But do not interrogate either: ask the questions whose answers change the architecture, assume sensible defaults for the rest, and state the assumptions.


Phase 1 — Understand what is actually being built

Five questions. Ask only the ones you cannot infer from the brief.

  1. Who uses it, and how many? Ten internal users and ten million consumers are different systems. If unknown, design for 10k and note the first bottleneck.
  2. What is the core transaction? The one thing that must never be wrong. Everything else is supporting cast.
  3. What data does it hold? Specifically: does it hold personal data, payment data, or health/financial records? Each adds non-optional obligations.
  4. What must it integrate with? Existing systems, auth providers, payment rails, data sources.
  5. What are the constraints? Team size and skills, budget, deadline, regulatory jurisdiction, self-host vs cloud.

Then write, in five lines: what it is, who it serves, the core transaction, the data classification, and the constraint that dominates. Confirm this before building. Getting the brief wrong is the only unrecoverable error here.

Phase 2 — Choose the stack, and justify it

See references/stack-selection.md for the decision framework.

The default answer is boring, well-supported technology the team already knows. Novelty is a cost paid in hiring, debugging and documentation for the life of the system. Choose novelty only where it is the differentiator.

Decide and record: language and runtime, framework, database, hosting, auth strategy, CI, monitoring. Each with a one-line reason. These become the first ADRs — see templates/adr.md.

Refuse to over-engineer. No Kubernetes, no microservices, no event sourcing, no CQRS, no service mesh for a product with no users. A modular monolith on a managed platform with a managed Postgres is the correct answer for the overwhelming majority of new products, and it is the answer that stays cheap to change.

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 197 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A 584b795007b1

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project-blueprint is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kin9Zeus/senior-engineer-skills (3 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 148 tokens to every session and 2,219 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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