project-setup

project-setup is a skill for Claude Code from markshust/hcf. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,844 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive setup assistant for HCF, a tool for coordinating autonomous development work. It examines a project and creates configuration files that describe its technology, testing approach, coding rules, and architecture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it once when preparing a project for HCF-based TDD development. It detects common technology stacks and creates CLAUDE.md plus related files in .claude/.
Why use it?
It gives development agents the project context they need instead of making you create and maintain those instructions by hand. TDD means writing tests before or alongside the code they check.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the hcf plugin — 4 skills, 3 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it once when preparing a project for HCF-based TDD development. It detects common technology stacks and creates CLAUDE.md plus related files in .claude/.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markshust/hcf/project-setup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add markshust/hcf --skill project-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markshust/hcf

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hcf, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 3 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,844 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00033 $0.02844
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.01138
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00569
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00284

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3ae5c478315d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-setup 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.

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-setup/SKILL.md · 356 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 356 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

One-time interactive setup to configure a project for autonomous development.

Purpose

Create CLAUDE.md and all project configuration files in .claude/ through an interactive process with auto-detection.

Execution Steps

Step 1: Check for Existing Configuration

First, check if configuration already exists:

ls CLAUDE.md .claude/testing.md .claude/code-standards.md .claude/architecture.md 2>/dev/null

If CLAUDE.md and all 3 config files (testing.md, code-standards.md, architecture.md) exist, inform the user:

Project already configured. CLAUDE.md and config files exist in .claude/. To reconfigure, delete CLAUDE.md and .claude/ then run /project-setup again.

Otherwise, continue with setup.

Step 2: Auto-Detect Project Type

Scan the project root for configuration files to detect the tech stack:

Check for these files (in parallel):

  • composer.json → PHP/Laravel/Symfony
  • package.json → Node.js/React/Vue/Next.js
  • Cargo.toml → Rust
  • go.mod → Go
  • pyproject.toml or requirements.txt → Python
  • Gemfile → Ruby/Rails
  • pom.xml or build.gradle → Java
  • *.csproj or *.sln → .NET

For each detected file, extract:

  • Framework and version
  • Testing framework (from devDependencies or test config)
  • Linting/formatting tools

Example auto-detection output:

Detected project configuration:
- Framework: Laravel 11 (from composer.json)
- PHP Version: 8.3
- Testing: Pest PHP (from composer.json require-dev)
- Linting: Laravel Pint (from composer.json require-dev)

Step 3: Confirm Detection

Ask user to confirm detected configuration:

I detected the following. Is this correct? (y/n) [Show detected config]

If incorrect, ask clarifying questions about each incorrect item.

Step 4: Gather Additional Information

Ask these questions (skip if already detected):

Q1: Test Command

What command runs your tests? Detected: ./vendor/bin/pest [Enter to confirm or type custom]

Q1b: Parallel Test Command

Does your test runner support parallel execution? If so, what's the command? (e.g., ./vendor/bin/pest --parallel, npm test -- --parallel, pytest -n auto, go test ./... -parallel 4) [Enter detected parallel command, type custom, or 'none' if not supported]

Read the full file on GitHub · 356 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. 1mo ago First seen · 356 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 3ae5c478315d

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project-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository markshust/hcf (82 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,844 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 2026-08-30.

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