scaffold-claude

scaffold-claude is a skill for Claude Code from ragnar-pwninskjold/tech-snacks. It costs 99 tokens per session (1,690 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for drafting a CLAUDE.md file, which stores project-specific instructions for Claude Code, in a reviewable scratchpad.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a new CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, document project conventions that are not obvious from the code, and prepare a draft for manual review.
Why use it?
It captures unusual project knowledge and edge cases while leaving unknown details marked for the user instead of guessing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the tech-snacks plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to start a new CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, document project conventions that are not obvious from the code, and prepare a draft for manual review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ragnar-pwninskjold/tech-snacks/scaffold-claude
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 ragnar-pwninskjold/tech-snacks --skill scaffold-claude
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ragnar-pwninskjold/tech-snacks

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tech-snacks, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,690 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 16
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00099 $0.01690
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00845
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00338
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00169

Measured 12d ago against content hash 883b4cc37c56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scaffold-claude 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 12d 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.

plugins/tech-snacks/skills/scaffold-claude/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

scaffold-claude

Scaffold a CLAUDE.md for the user's project. Output is written to a scratchpad so the user can review and move it to the repo root themselves.

The file you produce documents edge cases, non-obvious choices, and tribal knowledge — things Claude can't read off package.json, the directory tree, or the README. If a fact is derivable, it does not belong in the file.

The Iron Rule

Never write a section based on inference. Always ask, and stub when the answer is "skip" or "I don't know."

A stubbed section (a <!-- TODO: ... --> comment) is strictly better than a section filled with plausible-sounding guesses. Guesses encode false confidence that future Claude will trust.

When to Use

  • User says /scaffold-claude or asks to "scaffold/write/create CLAUDE.md"
  • User asks for an AGENTS.md (same shape, different filename — ask which)
  • User has a project but no CLAUDE.md and wants one
  • User has a CLAUDE.md they want to redo from scratch

When NOT to Use

  • User wants to edit an existing CLAUDE.md surgically → just edit it, don't run the full interview
  • User wants a tiered, full-codebase AGENTS.md across many directories → use the intent-layer-capture skill instead
  • User wants project-level CLAUDE.md updates triggered by code changes → that's a hook, not this skill

Output Location

Write to: docs/scratchpad/CLAUDE.md (relative to the user's current working directory)

  • Confirm the path with the user before writing.
  • If docs/scratchpad/ doesn't exist, create it.
  • If a file already exists at that path, ask before overwriting.
  • Do NOT write to the repo root. The user moves the file when they're satisfied.

The Workflow

1. Scan (read-only, narrow)

Read these if they exist, only to identify what to ask about — not to fill in:

  • package.json, Gemfile, pyproject.toml, go.mod, Cargo.toml (any one that's present)
  • Top-level directory listing (just names, not contents)
  • README.md (skim, do not summarize into the CLAUDE.md)
  • Existing CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .cursorrules, .github/copilot-instructions.md — if any exist, mention them and ask whether to merge or start fresh

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 12d ago First seen · 133 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 883b4cc37c56

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scaffold-claude is a skill published in the GitHub repository ragnar-pwninskjold/tech-snacks (132 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,690 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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