noctrace: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/server-setup/SKILL.md

server-setup is a skill for Claude Code from nyktora/noctrace. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,103 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specification for a server built with Express that serves a web application, REST API, and WebSocket connection. It defines routes for projects and the server's listening configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or changing the noctrace server, WebSocket handler, file watcher, or REST API endpoints.
Why use it?
It gives server-side work a consistent structure and clarifies how the browser, API, and live updates connect.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

This is nyktora/noctrace's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on noctrace itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything noctrace configures →

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/jane/myapp.

Part of the noctrace plugin — 5 skills, 4 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nyktora/noctrace. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nyktora/noctrace/main/.claude/skills/server-setup/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nyktora/noctrace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install noctrace, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 4 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,103 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 $0.00032 $0.01103
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00441
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00110

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f3b1cbdd6f0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

server-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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/server-setup/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Server Setup Specification

Express Server

Single Express app serving three concerns:

  1. Static files: serve the Vite-built SPA from dist/client/
  2. REST API: prefixed with /api/
  3. WebSocket: upgrade at /ws
// src/server/index.ts
import express from "express";
import { createServer } from "http";
import { setupWebSocket } from "./ws";
import { setupRoutes } from "./routes";
import { getClaudeHome } from "./config";

const app = express();
const server = createServer(app);

setupRoutes(app, getClaudeHome());
setupWebSocket(server, getClaudeHome());

// Serve SPA in production
app.use(express.static("dist/client"));
app.get("*", (req, res) => res.sendFile("index.html", { root: "dist/client" }));

const PORT = process.env.PORT || 4117;
server.listen(PORT, () => console.log(`Noctrace running at http://localhost:${PORT}`));

REST API Endpoints

GET /api/projects

Returns list of Claude Code projects.

// Response
interface ProjectListResponse {
  projects: {
    slug: string;         // encoded path (e.g., "-Users-jane-myapp")
    path: string;         // decoded path (e.g., "/Users/jane/myapp")
    sessionCount: number;
    lastModified: string; // ISO-8601
  }[];
}

Implementation: read directory listing of ~/.claude/projects/, decode slugs by replacing - with /, count JSONL files per project, get latest mtime.

GET /api/projects/:slug/sessions

Returns sessions for a project, sorted by most recent.

interface SessionListResponse {
  sessions: {
    id: string;           // session UUID (filename without .jsonl)
    summary: string;      // first user message or auto-summary
    messageCount: number;
    startTime: string;
    endTime: string;
    hasErrors: boolean;
  }[];
}

Implementation: read sessions-index.json if it exists, otherwise parse first/last lines of each JSONL file for timestamps and first user message.

GET /api/sessions/:id

Returns parsed waterfall data for a session.

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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. 2mo ago First seen · 167 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A f3b1cbdd6f0a

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server-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository nyktora/noctrace (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,103 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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