repository-initialization

repository-initialization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pueraeternis/agentic-project-template. It costs 0 tokens per session (804 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning approved project documents into a repository ready for coding. It connects project decisions about goals, roadmap, architecture, and engineering practices to the initial repository structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is used after project and engineering documents are approved to initialize the repository and prepare it for the first implementation plan.
Why use it?
It creates a consistent starting point without designing or implementing the project itself.

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/pueraeternis/agentic-project-template/repository-initialization
Any agent
npx skills add pueraeternis/agentic-project-template --skill repository-initialization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pueraeternis/agentic-project-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 804 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00804
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00402
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00080

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3a238e4b513b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

repository-initialization 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 5d 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/repository-initialization/SKILL.md · 236 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 236 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repository Initialization

Purpose

This skill transforms approved project documentation into a repository that is ready for implementation.

Repository Initialization does not design or implement the project.

Instead, it materializes the approved project and engineering decisions into a consistent repository structure.

The result is a repository ready for the first implementation plan.


Lifecycle Stage

Project Discovery
        ↓
Roadmap Creation
        ↓
Architecture Design
        ↓
Engineering Design
        ↓
Repository Initialization
        ↓
Plan Creation

Repository Initialization is the bridge between project design and implementation.


Role

Primary role:

Initialization Agent


When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • PROJECT.md has been approved;
  • ROADMAP.md has been approved;
  • ARCHITECTURE.md has been approved;
  • ENGINEERING.md has been approved;
  • a new project repository is being initialized.

Normally this skill is executed once.

It may later be executed again to synchronize repository metadata without modifying implementation artifacts.

Do not use this skill for:

  • architecture design;
  • engineering design;
  • implementation planning;
  • production code;
  • dependency installation;
  • runtime bootstrap.

Inputs

Required:

  • PROJECT.md
  • ROADMAP.md
  • ARCHITECTURE.md
  • ENGINEERING.md

Additional inputs:

  • framework templates;
  • framework rules;
  • repository skeleton.

Repository Initialization must never invent missing project decisions.


Outputs

Produce an initialized repository by:

  • generating project documentation from templates;
  • generating project-local Cursor configuration;
  • generating project-local Codex configuration;
  • generating operational documentation;
  • synchronizing repository metadata;
  • validating repository structure.

No production source code should be generated.


Procedure

Step 1 — Validate Project Design

Verify that all required project documentation exists and is approved:

Read the full file on GitHub · 236 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. 5d ago First seen · 236 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3a238e4b513b

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repository-initialization is a skill published in the GitHub repository pueraeternis/agentic-project-template (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 804 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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