devcontainer-setup

devcontainer-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 62 tokens per session (2,178 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup tool for adding a new devcontainer, which is a repeatable development environment defined with container files. It supports repositories using Python, Node or TypeScript, Rust, Go, or combinations of them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a repository has no devcontainer and needs isolated setup instructions for VS Code or the command line.
Why use it?
It gives contributors a consistent environment without manually installing every project tool. It creates the setup files but does not build or start the container.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/devcontainer-setup
Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill devcontainer-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 devcontainer-setup

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/devcontainer-setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/devcontainer-setup.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,178 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00062 $0.02178
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01089
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00436
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00218

Measured yesterday against content hash ce5e2312eba9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

devcontainer-setup scanned grade C 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 yesterday.

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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- Python: if `pyproject.toml` declares a Python version different from the base default, set it in the Dockerfile via `uv python install <version> --default`. Add extensions `ms-python.python`, `ms-python.vscode-pylance`
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.devin/skills/devcontainer-setup/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Devcontainer setup

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger The user asks to add a new devcontainer or isolated Claude Code development environment to a repository that does not already have one, for Python, Node/TypeScript, Rust, Go, or a supported combination.
Authority Reversible local writes confined to the repository's .devcontainer/ directory. No container is built, launched, published, or pushed.
Side effect Creates or replaces the five generated files under .devcontainer (Dockerfile, devcontainer.json, post_install.py, .zshrc, and install.sh) with project substitutions and merged language-specific features, settings, extensions, commands, and persistent-volume declarations.
Done All template placeholders are resolved; devcontainer.json is valid; every detected language is represented without duplicate configuration; postCreateCommand composes all required setup commands; the security mounts and token-forwarding contract are explicit; and the user receives both VS Code and CLI startup instructions without claiming the container was built or launched unless it was.

Inputs

Required: the repository root to scan for language manifests and to write .devcontainer/.

Optional, supplied by the user when known: a human-readable project name (otherwise inferred), a preferred Python version (otherwise the default from the base template), and a package manager choice for Node/TypeScript (otherwise detected from the lockfile).

Procedure

  1. Reject modification requests. If .devcontainer/ already exists, stop: this skill only adds a new devcontainer. Direct the user to edit the existing configuration. Do not trigger for general Docker, production container, or container lifecycle questions. Done when: the skill confirms .devcontainer/ is absent, or stops and directs the user to edit the existing config.

  2. Infer project name and slug. Probe in order and use the first match: package.json name field, pyproject.toml project.name, Cargo.toml package.name, go.mod module path (last segment after /), then the repository directory name as fallback. Derive the slug by lowercasing and replacing spaces and the underscore with hyphens. Keep the human-readable name distinct from the slug. Done when: a human-readable name and a derived slug are recorded.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. yesterday First seen · 60 lines · 62 tokens per session scan C ce5e2312eba9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devcontainer-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,178 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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