preset-setup

preset-setup is a skill for Claude Code from MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal. It costs 34 tokens per session (635 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided way to merge a preset block of instructions into a CLAUDE.md file, which gives coding agents project or user guidance. It checks for overlapping content and asks for approval before applying deletions or changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add the specseal instructions to a global user file or a project file, after choosing the scope and reviewing proposed overlaps.
Why use it?
It avoids blindly duplicating instructions or removing user-written guidance. A backup is made before the target file is changed.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the specseal plugin — 22 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to add the specseal instructions to a global user file or a project file, after choosing the scope and reviewing proposed overlaps.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal
Claude Code
/plugin install specseal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install specseal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 635 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 $0.00034 $0.00635
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00254
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00064

Measured 7d ago against content hash 7014819840be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

preset-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 7d 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/preset-setup/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/specseal:preset-setup, a reviewed CLAUDE.md merge

The user runs this command, and the session running it merges the preset's CLAUDE.md block into the user's global ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, or into the target the user names. install.sh only inserts the marker block; this command also removes what the block duplicates, and every deletion goes through the user first.

Procedure

  1. Ask the scope first, unless the user already said: global (~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, every project on this machine) or this project (./CLAUDE.md, committed, so teammates receive it through git). Recommend project scope for team repositories and global for a personal machine. Warn where the preset block already exists in the other scope: both files load, so the block lives in exactly one.

  2. Back up. Copy the target file to CLAUDE.md.bak before touching anything. Where the target does not exist, write the preset block and stop.

  3. Read both. The preset block is the content between <!-- specseal:start --> and <!-- specseal:end --> in this plugin's templates/claude-md-block.md ($CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/templates/claude-md-block.md), the block's one source. Read the user's file in full.

  4. Classify each overlap between the user's existing content (outside any preset markers) and the preset block:

    Finding Proposal
    Exact duplicate: same rule, same meaning Propose removing the user's copy (the block now owns it)
    Partial overlap: the user's rule is more specific Propose keeping the user's rule and note it overrides the block's general form
    Conflict: different values for the same concern (for example the response language) Ask which side wins. Never decide silently
  5. Present the result as a diff: the full proposed file, with each change annotated by its classification above. Apply nothing yet.

  6. Apply only after approval. Where the user amends the proposal, present the diff again. After applying, confirm the marker block is intact and nothing outside it changed except approved deletions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 7d ago Changed · -1 lines · +1 tokens per session 7014819840be
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines c835aed9aa7f
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 54 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 108cad762c0a

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preset-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 635 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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