setup-bootstrap

setup-bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit. It costs 30 tokens per session (10,581 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A one-time workflow that prepares a repository for AI-assisted coding by detecting its technology stack, auditing the code, gathering guidelines, and creating project instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up a repository for the first time or auditing an existing setup.
Why use it?
It turns an unfamiliar repository into a documented starting point for future coding work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the mtk plugin — 45 skills, 6 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server 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/moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit/setup-bootstrap
Any agent
npx skills add moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit --skill setup-bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mtk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills, 6 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,581 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 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 $0.00030 $0.10581
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.05291
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.02116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.01058

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9a512fc82cb6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

setup-bootstrap scanned grade D with 3 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

4. Otherwise, fall back to `find ~/.claude/plugins -maxdepth 8 -name "SKILL.md" -path "*/mtk/*/context-engineering/*" -type f 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1 | sed 's|/.claude/skills/context-engineering/SKILL.md||'`. If

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

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

> ⚠️ **Do not chain `mkdir` + `rm -rf` + `echo >` into one shell command.** Conservative permission modes reject any command that contains `rm -rf`, causing the entire chain to abort. Run each step as its own Bash call s

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -sL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/moberghr/coding-guidelines/${SHA}/CodingStyle.md" -o "$OUT"
.claude/skills/setup-bootstrap/SKILL.md · 535 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 535 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MTK Setup Bootstrap — Prepare Repository for AI-Assisted Development

MTK File Resolution

MTK skills and shared references live either in the project (local install) or the plugin cache (marketplace install). Resolve once:

  1. If $MTK_HELPER_ROOT is set, prefix .claude/skills/ and .claude/references/ reads with it — a pinned checkout wins over every other source.
  2. Otherwise, if $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT is set, prefix them with that.
  3. Otherwise, if .claude/skills/context-engineering/SKILL.md exists locally → project-relative paths work as-is.
  4. Otherwise, fall back to find ~/.claude/plugins -maxdepth 8 -name "SKILL.md" -path "*/mtk/*/context-engineering/*" -type f 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1 | sed 's|/.claude/skills/context-engineering/SKILL.md||'. If empty, MTK skills are unavailable — warn the engineer and proceed with CLAUDE.md only.

Always project-relative (never prefixed): CLAUDE.md, .claude/tech-stack, .claude/rules/, tasks/, docs/, .claude/references/architecture-principles.md, .claude/references/pre-commit-review-list.md, .mtk/ (workflow state). Resolve skills and scripts from the same root: a split (skills from a local dev checkout, scripts from the plugin cache) risks version drift — anchor both the same way.

Companion files: several steps below defer detail to .claude/references/*.md companions, resolved via the block above. If a companion cannot be resolved at read time, stop the affected step and report the missing file path — do not reconstruct its content from memory.


You are setting up a repository for the /mtk workflows. Your job is to detect the tech stack, audit the codebase, and generate a tailored CLAUDE.md that the implementation and review agents will use as their source of truth.

This bootstrap also prepares the repo for the shared skill layer and OpenCode routing.

Modes

Parse arguments before starting:

  • --preview — run detection, scan, and interview, then show the proposed CLAUDE.md + rules files diff and ask for confirmation via AskUserQuestion before writing anything. Use this when the engineer wants to review before commit. Without --preview, the bootstrap writes files directly (merge mode is still the default for existing CLAUDE.md).
  • --non-interactive — skip the post-scan interview (STEP 2.5). Use when scripting the bootstrap or when the engineer has no time for questions. Defaults to interactive.
  • --no-verify-commands — skip STEP 3.5a's "Command verification" subsection entirely: no build/test/format commands are executed, and CLAUDE.md's Tech Stack section is written with no <!-- verified: ... --> stamp and no [UNVERIFIED] annotations. Use on a slow or sandboxed runner where executing the repo's build is undesirable. Noted in the STEP 5 report (Command verification: skipped via --no-verify-commands).

Read the full file on GitHub · 535 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 First seen · 535 lines · 30 tokens per session scan D 9a512fc82cb6

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setup-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit (6 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 10,581 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (reads agent configuration directories, recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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