init-project

init-project is a skill for Claude Code from luiseiman/dotforge. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,293 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided setup skill for Claude Code, a coding assistant. It detects the project's technology stack, asks four questions, and then creates configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting Claude Code on a project built with technologies such as FastAPI, React, SwiftUI, Go, Spring, Docker, or cloud deployment tools.
Why use it?
It avoids guessing how the project should be configured before understanding the codebase and the user's preferences.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the dotforge plugin — 25 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents, 8 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting Claude Code on a project built with technologies such as FastAPI, React, SwiftUI, Go, Spring, Docker, or cloud deployment tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/luiseiman/dotforge/init-project
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add luiseiman/dotforge --skill init-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/luiseiman/dotforge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dotforge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents, 8 hooks.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,293 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 $0.00028 $0.02293
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00917
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00459
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00229

Measured 9d ago against content hash aaf9a3a8fc2e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init-project 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 9d 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/init-project/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Init Project

MANDATORY FLOW: detect stack → ask 4 questions → WAIT for answers → generate config.

You MUST ask the 4 questions in Step 4 and WAIT for the user to answer BEFORE generating any files. Do NOT skip the questions. Do NOT generate config before receiving answers.

Step 1: Check if already initialized

If .claude/settings.json exists:

Already initialized. Use /forge sync to update or /forge audit to check score.

Exit without changes.

If AGENTS.md exists (with or without a CLAUDE.md), say so before the questions: bootstrap will keep it and generate CLAUDE.md with an @AGENTS.md import (or write to the symlink target) instead of hiding it — see /bootstrap-project Step 3.

Step 2: Detect stacks

Scan project files silently using $DOTFORGE_DIR/stacks/detect.md as reference:

python-fastapi: pyproject.toml, requirements.txt with fastapi
react-vite-ts:  package.json with react + vite
swift-swiftui:  Package.swift, *.xcodeproj
node-express:   package.json with express/fastify (no react)
go-api:         go.mod
java-spring:    pom.xml or build.gradle with spring
supabase:       supabase/ dir or supabase in deps
docker-deploy:  Dockerfile or docker-compose*
gcp-cloud-run:  app.yaml or cloudbuild.yaml
aws-deploy:     cdk.json or template.yaml
redis:          redis in deps
data-analysis:  *.ipynb prominent
devcontainer:   .devcontainer/

Also scan existing files for additional context:

  • README.md → project description
  • existing test files → testing patterns
  • CI config (.github/workflows, Makefile) → build/test commands

Step 3: Detect user language and ask 4 questions

Detect language: check previous messages → global CLAUDE.md → system locale → default English.

OVERRIDE RULE: For /forge init, ALWAYS present questions in the detected language, even if global CLAUDE.md says "communicate in Spanish/English/etc." The questions are part of the tool's UI, not a conversation.

Present all 4 questions together in one message. Then STOP and WAIT for the user's response. Do NOT proceed to Step 5 until the user answers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 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. 9d ago Changed · +2 lines aaf9a3a8fc2e
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 231 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 6ac8c9ab7c35

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init-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository luiseiman/dotforge (8 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,293 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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