setup-refresh

setup-refresh is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit. It costs 42 tokens per session (4,005 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A workflow for checking generated project setup files against the current codebase and detected tools. It proposes changes to files edited by engineers instead of replacing them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refresh principles, conventions, tool detection, AGENTS.md, configuration files, and indexes after the project has drifted.
Why use it?
Project setup can become outdated as the codebase changes, while automatic regeneration can overwrite deliberate team decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

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-refresh
Any agent
npx skills add moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit --skill setup-refresh
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for setup-refresh

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit/setup-refresh"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit/setup-refresh.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,005 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00042 $0.04005
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.02003
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00801
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00400

Measured 4d ago against content hash bb8c43d1f78a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

setup-refresh scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 4d 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
.claude/skills/setup-refresh/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MTK Setup Refresh — Detect Drift, Regenerate Scoped, Propose Diffs

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.


This skill re-runs setup's generators on an already-bootstrapped repo. It never re-audits blind: it consults scripts/setup-refresh-plan.sh for a per-artifact staleness verdict, regenerates only what drifted, and — critically — never silently overwrites a file an engineer has hand-edited. Engineer-edited files go through the diff-proposal contract in .claude/references/regen-diff-contract.md, the same contract setup-audit and setup-bootstrap use for their own re-run merges. This is the inverse of .claude/skills/setup-converge/SKILL.md: refresh brings the docs back in line with the code, while converge treats the docs as normative and reports where the code has drifted from them.

File Preservation Policy

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 4d ago First seen · 169 lines · 42 tokens per session scan B bb8c43d1f78a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-refresh is a skill published in the GitHub repository moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit (7 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 4,005 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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