agent-setup

agent-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pasky/pi-side-agents. It costs 24 tokens per session (2,780 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for pi-side-agents, a system for running additional coding agents asynchronously from the main session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when first configuring pi-side-agents, changing its setup, or upgrading its installed version.
Why use it?
It prepares the project files and lifecycle settings needed to start, manage, or update those background agents.

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/pasky/pi-side-agents/agent-setup
Any agent
npx skills add pasky/pi-side-agents --skill agent-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pasky/pi-side-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,780 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 $0.00024 $0.02780
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01390
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00556
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00278

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8171340b674c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-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 4d 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/agent-setup/SKILL.md · 314 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 314 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Parallel Agent Setup

Set up the pi-side-agents lifecycle scripts for this project.

Initial first time setup (no .pi/side-agent* yet): Work through two phases: interview, then file creation. Finish by backing up this agent-setup SKILL.md to .pi/side-agents/agent-start~/ for easy future upgrades.

Update setup: Chat with the user about what needs changing, use file examples below as reference for comparison.

Upgrade setup to new pi-side-agents version: Diff this file with the current backup .pi/side-agents/agent-start~/ and discuss the changes to apply (or not) with the user. When upgrade is finished, update the backup to the current version.

Important (local-only files): everything this skill creates is under .pi/ and is runtime/local configuration. Do not git add, git add -f, or commit these files. They should remain untracked. If they were accidentally committed, remove them from git tracking while keeping them locally.

Phase 1: Interview

Ask the user the following questions. You may ask them all at once or one at a time — use your judgment based on how they engage.

  1. Main branch name – What is the primary integration branch? (default: main)

  2. Bootstrap steps – Does each agent worktree need custom setup before work begins? For example: npm install, copying .env files, running migrations. If yes, what commands specifically?

  3. Finish policy – When an agent finishes, should it:

    • Rebase locally, then fast-forward into the main branch in the parent checkout (default), or
    • Open a pull request instead?
  4. Overwrite existing files – If .pi/side-agent-start.sh or similar already exist, overwrite them? (default: no — skip existing files)

Before asking the questions, autonomously try to answer questions 1, 2 and 4, and propose project-specific answers to the user.

Collect all answers before proceeding to Phase 2.


Phase 2: Create Setup Files

Determine the git repo root:

GIT_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)

Read the full file on GitHub · 314 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. 4d ago First seen · 314 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 8171340b674c

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agent-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository pasky/pi-side-agents (191 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,780 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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