ss-init

ss-init is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MartyBonacci/specswarm. It costs 25 tokens per session (239 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A SpecSwarm setup workflow that initializes project configuration, including a project constitution and development standards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up SpecSwarm for the first time, configuring a repository, or creating its project standards.
Why use it?
It gives a new SpecSwarm project an agreed starting structure and rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ss plugin — 10 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

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/martybonacci/specswarm/ss-init
Any agent
npx skills add MartyBonacci/specswarm --skill ss-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MartyBonacci/specswarm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 4 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 239 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 $0.00025 $0.00239
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00120
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00024

Measured 5d ago against content hash b2cb686dc8be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ss-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 5d 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.

plugins/ss/skills/ss-init/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

SpecSwarm Init

Provides natural language access to /ss:init command.

When to Invoke

Trigger this skill when the user mentions:

  • Setting up SpecSwarm for a project
  • Initializing project configuration
  • Creating project constitution or standards
  • First-time SpecSwarm setup

Examples:

  • "Set up SpecSwarm"
  • "Initialize this project"
  • "Configure SpecSwarm for my repo"
  • "Create project constitution"

Instructions

Auto-execute on clear intent:

  1. Detect that user wants to initialize/set up SpecSwarm
  2. Execute immediately: Run /ss:init
  3. The init command is interactive — it will ask its own questions

Semantic Understanding

Init equivalents: initialize, init, set up, setup, configure, bootstrap, onboard, get started Target terms: project, repo, repository, codebase, workspace

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. 5d ago First seen · 38 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A b2cb686dc8be

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ss-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository MartyBonacci/specswarm (65 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 239 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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