project-bootstrap

project-bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from naorpeled/awesome-oss-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (761 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for starting a brand-new open-source software repository. It helps choose a license and create baseline documentation, configuration, and repository health files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating a repository from scratch to set up a license, package-manager files, project documentation, and other initial maintenance files.
Why use it?
It removes the uncertainty of deciding which files and legal terms a new project needs before other people use or contribute to it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when creating a repository from scratch to set up a license, package-manager files, project documentation, and other initial maintenance files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naorpeled/awesome-oss-skills/project-bootstrap
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 naorpeled/awesome-oss-skills --skill project-bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naorpeled/awesome-oss-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 761 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 $0.00044 $0.00761
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00380
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00076

Measured 10d ago against content hash ca87f602f458, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-bootstrap 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 10d 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/project-bootstrap/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project bootstrap

Use this skill when a maintainer is starting a new project and needs the baseline files and decisions a healthy open source repository should have from day one.

Primary inputs

  • the project's goals, language/runtime, and intended audience
  • any existing files in the new repository (if not fully empty)
  • organization or personal defaults for licensing, if any are already stated
  • package manager manifests to be created (e.g. package.json, pyproject.toml, go.mod)

Instructions

Choose a license

  1. Ask whether the project should be open source and, if so, what usage the maintainer wants to allow or restrict (e.g. permissive vs. copyleft, patent grants, commercial use).
  2. If the maintainer has no preference, recommend a widely used permissive license such as MIT or Apache-2.0 for most projects, and explain the practical difference (Apache-2.0 adds an explicit patent grant; MIT is shorter and simpler).
  3. Point to choosealicense.com for edge cases (e.g. copyleft with GPL/AGPL, or no-license "all rights reserved").
  4. Add a LICENSE file with the chosen license text and the correct copyright holder and year.
  5. If the project depends on other licensed code, confirm the chosen license is compatible with those dependencies.

Scaffold baseline files

  1. Use the ecosystem's standard scaffolding tool when one exists (e.g. npm init, cargo init, go mod init, language-specific project templates) instead of hand-writing manifests.
  2. Add or generate:
    • README.md with project name, purpose, install/usage instructions, and a link to contribution docs
    • CONTRIBUTING.md describing setup, workflow, and pull request expectations
    • CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md (e.g. the Contributor Covenant)
    • .gitignore matching the project's language/tooling
    • a basic CI workflow that installs dependencies and runs lint/tests
    • issue and pull request templates if the host platform supports them
  3. Keep initial scaffolding minimal and working rather than exhaustive; prefer a small set of files that build and run cleanly over a large, partially-configured template.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 10d ago First seen · 87 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A ca87f602f458

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository naorpeled/awesome-oss-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 761 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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