jd-system-setup

jd-system-setup is a skill for Claude Code from ngerakines/jd. It costs 108 tokens per session (1,660 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup assistant for Johnny.Decimal, a system that organizes information into numbered folders. It creates the folder structure, standard folders, and an initial index based on your needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for starting a personal or multi-area Johnny.Decimal system, choosing its identity and location, and creating its initial folders and index.
Why use it?
It gives a new organizational system a consistent starting structure instead of requiring you to design every folder yourself.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the jd plugin — 6 skills, 6 commands shipped together

Good fit It is for starting a personal or multi-area Johnny.Decimal system, choosing its identity and location, and creating its initial folders and index.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ngerakines/jd/jd-system-setup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ngerakines/jd --skill jd-system-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ngerakines/jd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install jd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 6 commands.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,660 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 $0.00108 $0.01660
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00830
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00332
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00166

Measured 8d ago against content hash 66e3baf8fa1b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jd-system-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 8d 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.

jd/skills/jd-system-setup/SKILL.md · 266 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 266 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Johnny.Decimal System Setup

This skill creates a new Johnny.Decimal system from scratch — building the folder structure, standard zeros, and initial JDex based on the user's needs.


1. Gather Requirements

Before creating anything, understand what the user needs.

1.1 Single or Multi-System?

Ask the user:

  • Single system: One organizational domain (e.g., just personal life, or just work). No system prefix needed — folders use plain AC.ID notation.
  • Multi-system: Multiple distinct domains (e.g., personal + work, or personal + work + child). Each system gets a SYS prefix using the [A-Z][0-9][0-9] format.

If the user already has JD systems, check the existing root to avoid conflicts.

1.2 System Identity

For each system to create, gather:

  • System code (multi-system only): A three-character [A-Z][0-9][0-9] identifier. Encourage memorable codes (e.g., P10 for personal, W20 for work). The code should be visually distinctive.
  • System name: A plain-English name (e.g., "Personal", "Work", "Jamie").
  • Root location: Where the system will live on disk. Common locations:
    • ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/JD/ (iCloud Drive)
    • ~/Documents/JD/
    • ~/JD/

1.3 Areas and Categories

Walk the user through defining their areas. Provide guidance:

  • Maximum 10 areas (including 00-09 System)
  • Each area covers a major life/work domain
  • Fewer areas is better — compression over granularity
  • Area 00-09 is always created automatically for system management

For each area, ask about categories:

  • Maximum 10 categories per area
  • Categories are "where you work" — collections of similar things
  • Category names should be short and clear

For each category, ask if they have specific IDs in mind, or if they'll create IDs as content arrives.


2. Create the Folder Structure

2.1 System Root

Create the system root folder:

  • Single system: [Root]/ (e.g., ~/JD/)
  • Multi-system: [Root]/SYS Name/ (e.g., ~/JD/P10 Personal/)

Read the full file on GitHub · 266 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. 8d ago First seen · 266 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 66e3baf8fa1b

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jd-system-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository ngerakines/jd (7 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 1,660 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.