bootstrap-app

bootstrap-app is a skill for Claude Code from mendixlabs/mxcli. It costs 58 tokens per session (6,606 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided setup for creating a new Mendix app in an empty repository. Mendix is a platform for building business software with visual models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when the repository has no Mendix project yet and you need to create and start one.
Why use it?
It gives an empty repository the project files, initial plan, first commit, and local startup setup needed to begin development.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it when the repository has no Mendix project yet and you need to create and start one.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mendixlabs/mxcli/bootstrap-app
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 mendixlabs/mxcli --skill bootstrap-app
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mendixlabs/mxcli

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,606 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00058 $0.06606
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.02642
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.01321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00661

Measured 3d ago against content hash 27c25ab36da9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

bootstrap-app scanned grade C with 2 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 3d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf .ai-context # the seed prompt's own `mxcli init --sync-skills`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sI -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' https://cdn.mendix.com/runtime/mxbuild-$V.tar.gz
.claude/skills/mendix/bootstrap-app/SKILL.md · 456 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 456 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Find it fast

sed -n '<from>,<to>p' SKILL.md one section rather than reading the file; ./mxcli syntax <topic> answers how do I write this for a fraction of either.

lines section
23-43 When to Use This Skill
44-130 Step 0 — interview, and WAIT for the answers
131-263 Provision
264-333 If this is a solution (several apps in one repo)
334-391 Then propose the model — do not build it yet
392-455 After bootstrap — the inner loop

Bootstrap a Mendix App in an Empty Repo

When to Use This Skill

Use this when a repo has no Mendix project yet and you have been asked to provision one with mxcli — typically from the empty-repo seed prompt, which does nothing but install mxcli, run mxcli init --sync-skills, and send you here.

Everything the seed prompt used to spell out lives here instead, so the prompt stays short enough to paste from a phone and this procedure can be fixed by shipping a new mxcli rather than by re-pasting a longer prompt.

If an .mpr already exists, this is the wrong skill: run mxcli init in the app folder and go straight to the work.

Related skills: run-local (the warm dev loop this ends in), mdl-entities and create-page (building the model you propose at the end), migrate-design-prototype (when a design was handed to you), assess-quality (reading the report this takes a baseline with), test-microflows and test-app (the two gates that prove behaviour rather than syntax).


Step 0 — interview, and WAIT for the answers

Ask all of these in ONE message, numbered, each with the default you would pick, so the user can reply "defaults" or answer only what they care about. Do not provision anything until they reply.

The interview comes first for a reason: the app name becomes the .mpr file name, the Studio Pro app name and the path baked into the SessionStart hook, so it is far cheaper to ask than to rename afterwards. The rest of the answers are the brief — they get written into the repo, so the session that resumes after an idle reap knows what it is building.

Read the full file on GitHub · 456 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. 3d ago Changed 27c25ab36da9
  2. 5d ago Changed · +38 lines e6b590572ba4
  3. 9d ago Changed · +1 lines d46ecb90c198
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  7. 28d ago Changed · +81 lines · +3 tokens per session 03e83c1c42ab
  8. 1mo ago Changed · +75 lines 6a83c719e552
  9. 1mo ago First seen · 246 lines · 55 tokens per session scan C 4d73aec086dc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bootstrap-app is a skill published in the GitHub repository mendixlabs/mxcli (130 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 6,606 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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