setup

setup is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 93 tokens per session (11,039 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of local-os-builder, MIT.

A setup and onboarding tool for creating a second-brain note system in a Baalda vault, where a vault is a folder of plain Markdown notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for initializing a Baalda vault, choosing a solo or team setup, creating its files, and guiding the user through onboarding.
Why use it?
It turns an existing notes folder into an organized structure with directories, routing indexes, starter context, and personalized setup.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the all-skills plugin — 99 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for initializing a Baalda vault, choosing a solo or team setup, creating its files, and guiding the user through onboarding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/setup
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 naveedharri/benai-skills --skill setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naveedharri/benai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install all-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 99 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 11,039 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00093 $0.11039
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.05520
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.02208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.01104

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8674d4468c5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

setup 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 5d 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.

| `references/settings-json-template.md` | `./.claude/settings.json` |
Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to local-os-builder — 80 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/all-skills/skills/setup/SKILL.md · 803 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 803 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Baalda OS — Setup + Onboarding

USE WHEN the user runs /setup or asks to set up their Baalda vault, bootstrap the second brain, initialize the system, or turn a folder of notes into an AI-operated OS.

Baalda notes are plain .md files on disk, so everything this skill builds is just files and folders — no plugins to install, no import step. The moment you write them, the app indexes them, and if the vault is synced they appear for every teammate live.

Baalda ground rules (read once, obey throughout)

These are app invariants, not preferences. Breaking them corrupts note identity or the sync state.

  1. Run from the vault root. The vault root is the folder the user opened in Baalda. Everything below writes relative to it. If the current directory isn't that folder, stop and ask.
  2. .context/ is off-limits. Baalda keeps its SQLite index, CRDT store and config.json in <vault>/.context/. Never read, write, walk, move, index, or git add it. Same for .git.
  3. Write files, don't shell out to move them. Creating and editing .md files with normal tools is fully supported — the watcher picks the change up in ~150ms and merges it as a CRDT operation, so an AI edit and a human keystroke coexist instead of clobbering.
  4. Never mv or rm a note that is already synced. A note's identity is a doc_id, not its path. An external move looks like delete + create to the app: the note gets a new doc_id, and its history, backlinks and share settings do not follow. Rename and move synced notes in the app, or through the move_note / move_folder tools if this session is connected over Baalda's MCP endpoint. During first-time setup on a brand-new vault there is nothing to fork yet, so the mkdirs below are safe.
  5. Attachments live in attachments/. Images and files the user drops into a note land there. Leave that folder alone; it is not part of the note pipeline.
  6. Markdown Baalda understands: YAML frontmatter, [[wikilinks]] (backlinks + graph view are derived from them), #tags, and standard CommonMark. Prefer wikilinks over relative paths so links survive a later move.

Read the full file on GitHub · 803 lines

Files

What ships with it

35 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 803 lines · 93 tokens per session scan B 8674d4468c5c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 11,039 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). It is 86% identical to local-os-builder, differing in 80 lines, and is treated as a copy.