askit-init-plugin

askit-init-plugin is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit. It costs 53 tokens per session (982 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A plugin starter that asks a maintainer questions and creates the basic files and manifests required for a Bronze-level plugin. A maintainer is the person responsible for developing and maintaining the plugin.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a plugin, onboard its maintainer, create an asynchronous questionnaire, or generate a hybrid questionnaire prefilled from the conversation.
Why use it?
It turns an empty repository into a structured starting point and records the maintainer's answers before development begins. This also makes the plugin checkable from its first commit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Part of the agent-skills-toolkit plugin — 27 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to start a plugin, onboard its maintainer, create an asynchronous questionnaire, or generate a hybrid questionnaire prefilled from the conversation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit/askit-init-plugin
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 product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit --skill askit-init-plugin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook, 1 plugin.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 982 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 $0.00053 $0.00982
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00491
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00098

Measured 9d ago against content hash 42849ce83062, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

askit-init-plugin 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 9d 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/askit-init-plugin/SKILL.md · 33 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 33 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

askit-init-plugin

Purpose

Onboard a maintainer and scaffold a starting point that is gradeable from the first commit. Three modes: interview runs a live conversational Q&A, then scaffolds; questionnaire emits the structured onboarding template (with per-section maintainer-feedback and agent-response blocks) for the maintainer to fill async, then processes it; hybrid pre-fills that questionnaire with suggestions from chat context, still leaving the feedback blocks. All three scaffold the Bronze seed anatomy from templates/seed-plugin/ (library.json with the five required fields + AGENTS.md + a minimal .claude-plugin/plugin.json (name, version, description only, ADR 0043) + README/CHANGELOG starters) so the new plugin passes the conformance core immediately AND installs on Claude Code and Codex from the first commit. Fill name/description identically in library.json and .claude-plugin/plugin.json, or U8 (manifest-drift) warns on the mismatch. interview mode additionally asks for an optional author, so a plugin scaffolded that way carries a real attribution and passes claude plugin validate --strict outright; declining leaves the manifest exactly as minimal as the template, still --strict-warning and correctly so (ADR 0043). Mode and anatomy detail are in references/onboarding-modes.md.

When to use

When starting a brand-new plugin from scratch, onboarding a maintainer, or generating a scaffolding questionnaire. (To adopt an EXISTING repo instead, use askit-migrate.)

interview mode

  1. Ask the maintainer the onboarding questions live (theme/scope, target agents, target tier, first components, and an optional author: a name, and optionally a url/email).
  2. Synthesize a starting config and scaffold from templates/seed-plugin/, filling name/description in BOTH library.json and .claude-plugin/plugin.json (the same values in both) and AGENTS.md. If the maintainer supplied an author, add author: { name, [url], [email] } (only name is required by the vendor's schema) to BOTH library.json (its existing OPTIONAL field, Standard sec 5.1, so a later Silver-tier regeneration via gen-manifest.mjs does not silently drop it) and .claude-plugin/plugin.json. If the maintainer declined or skipped, emit NO author key in either file - never a placeholder (ADR 0043; the same class of defect U5 already penalizes in descriptions).
  3. Hand off: askit-build-skill for the first skill, askit-build-docs for docs, askit-evaluate to confirm Bronze.

Read the full file on GitHub · 33 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 33 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 42849ce83062

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askit-init-plugin is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 982 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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