oss-bootstrap

oss-bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code from olgaiv39/claude-oss-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,273 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for creating a new public open-source repository or preparing a small existing folder for publication. A repository is a project folder tracked with its files and history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting a new open-source project, preparing an empty or nearly empty repository, and turning a small private prototype into a publishable foundation.
Why use it?
It helps establish the basic files and checks needed for a clean starting point while protecting existing README, licence, and ignore files. Actions such as committing, adding a remote, and pushing require permission.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Starting a new open-source project, preparing an empty or nearly empty repository, and turning a small private prototype into a publishable foundation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/olgaiv39/claude-oss-skills/oss-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 olgaiv39/claude-oss-skills --skill oss-bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/olgaiv39/claude-oss-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,273 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 $0.00071 $0.01273
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00636
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00127

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3e3c09a107e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

oss-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/oss-bootstrap/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

oss-bootstrap

Prepare the smallest publishable repository from a new or nearly empty directory. Inspect before writing. Never overwrite existing README, LICENSE, or .gitignore, and never commit, add a remote, or push without an explicit request.

Activate when

  • Starting a new open-source project
  • The repository is empty or nearly empty
  • Converting a private prototype into a clean public starting point
  • Preparing the first local commit or first remote push

Do not activate when

  • Doing routine feature work in an established repository -> use implement-minimal
  • Releasing or deploying an existing project -> use release-deploy
  • Migrating a large repository or history
  • Copying a proprietary codebase into public Git

Required inputs

  • Target directory (confirm before any write)
  • Intended project type, if the user already knows it
  • Whether this session may commit, add a remote, or push (default: no)
  • Chosen license, if the user already has one

Low-resource policy

Read the first of these that exists, then follow it:

  • ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/.claude/shared/LOW_RESOURCE.md
  • $HOME/.claude/shared/LOW_RESOURCE.md

If neither exists, apply this fallback: run one expensive command at a time, prefer the narrowest validation, disable watch mode, reuse existing environments, and run full validation only at a milestone boundary. Do not scan the whole filesystem to locate the policy.

Context-efficiency policy

Read the first of these that exists, then follow it:

  • ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/.claude/shared/CONTEXT_EFFICIENCY.md
  • $HOME/.claude/shared/CONTEXT_EFFICIENCY.md

If neither exists, apply this fallback: select files before reading; use targeted searches and bounded ranges; do not preload references; do not reread unchanged files; finish one atomic increment and stop; create a compact handoff before context is exhausted.

Facts that must not be assumed

  • Whether Git is already initialized
  • The default branch name
  • That the directory is empty
  • The stack, package manager, or test runner
  • That files with common names are safe to overwrite
  • That a remote exists or is empty

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 10d ago First seen · 148 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 3e3c09a107e8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

oss-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository olgaiv39/claude-oss-skills (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,273 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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