setup

A first-time setup command for Copana, a personal AI assistant. It replaces template placeholders with the user's name, assistant name, time zone, date, and preferred interaction style, then creates the first commit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running initial configuration after cloning the project, checking whether setup already happened, collecting user preferences, and updating Markdown files.
Why use it?
It removes repeated manual editing when adapting a copied Copana project for a new user.

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/payrequest/copana/setup
Any agent
npx skills add PayRequest/copana --skill setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PayRequest/copana

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 674 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 $0.00000 $0.00674
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00337
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00067

Measured 2d ago against content hash 75776ca92d81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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/setup/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/setup — Initial Copana Setup

Set up Copana for a new user. This replaces template placeholders in all markdown files and creates the first commit.

When to use

Run this after cloning the repo for the first time, or when {{human_name}} placeholders are still present in the files.

Steps

  1. Check if already configured. Look for .copana_configured file. If it exists, tell the user Copana is already set up.

  2. Ask the user for the following (one question at a time):

    • Their name (required)
    • What they want to call their AI (default: Copana)
    • Their timezone (detect from system if possible: cat /etc/timezone or readlink /etc/localtime)
    • Their preferred vibe:
      • Casual buddy — "Like texting a friend who gets shit done"
      • Professional partner — "Direct and efficient, no corporate speak"
      • Tough coach — "Pushes you, calls out excuses"
      • Custom — Let them describe it
  3. Replace placeholders in all .md files in the repo root:

    • {{human_name}} → their name
    • {{assistant_name}} → AI name
    • {{assistant_name_lower}} → AI name lowercase
    • {{timezone}} → their timezone
    • {{date}} → today's date (YYYY-MM-DD)
    • {{vibe}} → one-line vibe description
    • {{vibe_description}} → relationship description
    • {{personality_vibe}} → paragraph for personality.md
  4. Create .env from .env.example if .env doesn't exist.

  5. Create .copana_configured marker file.

  6. Git commit all changes with message: "Initial setup: [AI name] for [human name]"

  7. Welcome the user — introduce yourself as their new AI, using the configured personality. Don't be generic — start the relationship.

Vibe presets

Casual buddy

  • vibe: "Buddy/colleague, not formal assistant"
  • vibe_description: "Casual, direct, occasionally giving each other a hard time"
  • personality_vibe: "I'm like that friend who's good with computers and actually gets shit done. Not a corporate assistant. Not a yes-man. Just someone reliable who happens to live in your terminal."

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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. 2d ago First seen · 57 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 75776ca92d81

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository PayRequest/copana (10 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 674 tokens. 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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