bootstrap

bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nikolamin/claude-coordinator-kit. It costs 296 tokens per session (2,450 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for starting coordinator work in a project for the first time or resuming it later, using project state and coordinator instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a new coordinator project or when the founder asks to bootstrap or resume one.
Why use it?
It restores context and creates the required project files instead of making the agent guess what has already happened.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the coordinator-kit plugin — 12 skills 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/nikolamin/claude-coordinator-kit/bootstrap
Any agent
npx skills add nikolamin/claude-coordinator-kit --skill bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nikolamin/claude-coordinator-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install coordinator-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 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.

agentmods badge for bootstrap

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikolamin/claude-coordinator-kit/bootstrap.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikolamin/claude-coordinator-kit/bootstrap)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nikolamin/claude-coordinator-kit/bootstrap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nikolamin/claude-coordinator-kit/bootstrap.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 296 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,450 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00296 $0.02450
Opus 5 $0.00148 $0.01225
Sonnet 5 $0.00059 $0.00490
Haiku 4.5 $0.00030 $0.00245

Measured today against content hash bd3ecc213e41, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 today.

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.

plugins/coordinator-kit/skills/bootstrap/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bootstrap and resume

This skill packages the fresh-install half and the "bootstrap yourself" resume half of CLAUDE.md's Session stop / resume protocol for delivery via a plugin, and adds the plugin-specific fresh-install procedure that install replaces: a plugin-based coordinator does not git-clone the kit and copy PROCESS.md/STATE.md/codex-setup.md into docs/coordination/ the way the file-copy install's kickoff-prompt.md does. The phase loop and the codex second-opinion guidance are already on this machine as coordinator-kit:phase-loop and coordinator-kit:codex-second-opinion, loaded on demand — nothing to copy. The one file this skill does install is CLAUDE.md itself, from templates/claude-md-spine.md next to this file, because that one has to physically live in the project root for Claude Code to load it every session. docs/coordination/STATE.md is also created directly (below) — it is this project's own live state, not kit content, so there is no template file to copy for it either.

Out of scope for this skill: installing the optional Telegram bridge, seeding memory-seed/-style memory files, and asking about Chrome browser access. Those are one-time, optional install choices independent of the plugin's own skills — if this project wants them, follow the kit's README rather than expecting this skill to drive that interview.

Which path applies: the resume test

Before doing anything else, apply the resume test: this is a resume, not a fresh bootstrap, if docs/coordination/STATE.md already exists and either its ## Current section reads as anything other than the single line - Phase: Bootstrap. No tasks dispatched yet., or its ## Agent log holds any entry beyond one illustrative EXAMPLE entry. A missing or freshly-stubbed STATE.md reads as a brand-new project; a mature project must never be treated as if none of its work happened, so check the actual file content, not just whether it exists.

Fresh project: Bootstrap

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. today Changed bd3ecc213e41
  2. 4d ago First seen · 136 lines · 296 tokens per session scan A 0d8cbfd79d67

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository nikolamin/claude-coordinator-kit (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 296 tokens to every session and 2,450 once invoked, about $0.0015 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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