bootstrap

A setup tool that creates a project’s memory folders, helper scripts, and scheduled-job files from templates. It skips files that already exist.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it once after installing the memory plugin, when setting up memory in a project or scaffolding its required directory structure.
Why use it?
It gives the memory system the project files it needs without replacing existing files.

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/lh8ppl/core-memory-kit/bootstrap
Any agent
npx skills add LH8PPL/core-memory-kit --skill bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LH8PPL/core-memory-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 813 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 $0.00066 $0.00813
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00081

Measured 2d ago against content hash d331c4868321, 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 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 2d 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.

plugin/skills/bootstrap/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

bootstrap

Purpose

Scaffold the memory-system files into the user's current project. The plugin itself ships with the hooks and skill, but the user's project needs its own context/ directory tree, scripts/ for the auto-extract helper to read project-relative paths, and the cron job declarations.

Steps

  1. Check the current project directory (CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR or pwd) for an existing context/ directory.

    • If exists: ASK the user "context/ already exists. Run bootstrap anyway (skipping existing files)?" Default to yes if no answer.
  2. Create directories (idempotent):

    context/memory
    context/sessions
    context/transcripts
    scripts
    cron/jobs
    
  3. For each template file in the plugin's context-template/ directory, copy into the user's context/ if the destination doesn't already exist. Substitute {{TODAY}} with today's date and {{PROJECT_NAME}} with the project's basename.

    Files to scaffold:

    • USER.md.templatecontext/USER.md
    • MEMORY.md.templatecontext/MEMORY.md
    • SOUL.md.templatecontext/SOUL.md
    • memory/INDEX.md.templatecontext/memory/INDEX.md
    • SETUP.mdcontext/SETUP.md (no substitution)
  4. Operational scripts — v0.1.0 ships these as Node bins inside the published @lh8ppl/core-memory-kit npm package, NOT as plugin-copied scripts. Users invoke them via cmk subcommands:

    • cmk daily-distill (was: run-daily-distill.sh)
    • cmk weekly-curate (was: run-weekly-curate.sh)
    • cmk compress --lazy (no-cron fallback; new in Task 35)
    • cmk register-crons (was: register-crons.py)
  5. Copy cron job declarations from the plugin's cron-template/jobs/ into the user's cron/jobs/:

    • daily-memory-distill.md
    • weekly-memory-curator.md
  6. Report: list which files were created vs skipped. Then tell the user:

    • Open context/SETUP.md for the Layer 6 (crons) install steps
    • Open INSTALL-<your-os>.md from the kit repo for OS prerequisites
    • The plugin's hooks already activate on session start — no per-project hook registration needed

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 2d ago First seen · 65 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A d331c4868321

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository LH8PPL/core-memory-kit (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 813 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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