What is cotend-project-init?

A project-startup and maintenance process for projects using the CoTend collaboration framework.

Use it when starting or updating a project, adopting CoTend, syncing an external platform adapter, or resuming work after a handoff.

It checks what has changed and routes initialization, repair, migration, or resuming work to the appropriate process while protecting existing decisions.

cotend-project-init — Skill for Codex by lhh1301506137/CoTend

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 lhh1301506137/CoTend --skill cotend-project-init

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lhh1301506137/CoTend

Made for: 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,603 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00063	$0.02603
Opus 5.5	$0.00025	$0.01041
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00521
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00260

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 30edc6a16511, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cotend-project-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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/check_cotend_governance_language.py, scripts/maintain_project_agents_router.py, scripts/resolve_framework_update.py, …), 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/cotend-project-init/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CoTend Project Init

Protocol target: cotend-collaboration-v2.01

Project Init is the canonical initialization orchestrator. It routes to stable owners; it is not a second product-development, semantic-alignment, Tooling, Plan Tree, or reporting implementation.

Hard Boundaries

Inspect before asking which project mode applies. Resolve framework impact before Auto Mode or broad reads.
Project Init is the sole owner of user_facing_language_resolution during Init. Never infer language from conversation, locale, repository text, filenames, model output, runtime profile, or identity.
Project Init must not classify, execute, load, call, delegate, or wrap $cotend-semantic-alignment or $cotend-diagnose-only. Do not load cotend-collaboration/references/project-intelligence.md during ordinary Init. Do not use grill-me, Idea to Consensus, or Project Intelligence inside Init for product meaning.
Do not create protected L0-L2 meaning, confirmation, a parallel semantic tree, a second impact/language/reconstruction resolver, a language ledger, or an automatic canonical writer.
A supplied same_primary_session_handoff is point-in-time input, never current truth. It is eligible only with literal $cotend-session-handoff in the current input; never discover it after restart/reconnect/resume.
Critical, destructive, public/release, credential/private-data, scope, unresolved P0/P1, final acceptance, language conflict and integrity gates still stop for the user.
Full and Adaptive use the same language resolver, impact selection, validator, repair budget, stop/readiness result, and outer handback.
A standalone invocation returns control before product work. A bounded ordinary follow-on explicitly authorized in the same instruction may run only after the Init report and only when no specialized decision blocks it.

Direct Reference Router

Read a triggered direct reference completely. Do not preload all references, and do not reconstruct a missing owner from memory.

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 lines

Files

What ships with it

18 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.

1mo ago First seen · 213 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 30edc6a16511

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cotend-project-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository lhh1301506137/CoTend (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,603 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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