init

An interactive setup wizard for creating a personal workspace, including folders for notes and a generated instruction file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a personal knowledge system and create its basic folder structure, provided the destination is not already set up.
Why use it?
It guides initial setup by collecting your name, technology stack, goals, recurring problems, and preferred storage location.

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/railly/agent-brain/init
Any agent
npx skills add Railly/agent-brain --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Railly/agent-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,516 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 $0.00012 $0.01516
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00758
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00152

Measured 2d ago against content hash 58e82ffc9735, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init 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.

.agents/skills/init/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interactive setup wizard for your personal OS. Asks questions, builds your vault, generates your CLAUDE.md.

WAVE 0: Welcome

Print:

Welcome to your Personal OS.

I'll ask you a few questions to set everything up.
This takes about 2 minutes.

WAVE 1: Questions

Ask these directly, one at a time. Wait for each answer before asking the next.

  1. "What's your name and what do you do? (e.g. 'Sarah, frontend engineer at Stripe')"
  2. "What's your main stack? (e.g. 'TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, PostgreSQL')"
  3. "What are your top 3 goals right now? (career, learning, personal, anything)"
  4. "What's one recurring failure you keep repeating? Be honest, nobody reads this except your AI. (e.g. 'I start side projects and never finish them')"
  5. "Where should I create your vault? (default: ~/brain)"

Store all answers for WAVE 2.

WAVE 2: Create vault structure

Use the path from question 5 (default ~/brain).

Before writing, check whether the destination already contains CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, or 01_Inbox/. If it does, stop without changing it and direct the user to docs/MIGRATION-v2.md.

mkdir -p "{path}/01_Inbox/processed"
mkdir -p "{path}/02_Journal/daily"
mkdir -p "{path}/02_Journal/weekly"
mkdir -p "{path}/02_Journal/reflections"
mkdir -p "{path}/03_Garden/_MOCs"
mkdir -p "{path}/03_Garden/concepts"
mkdir -p "{path}/03_Garden/people"
mkdir -p "{path}/03_Garden/tools"
mkdir -p "{path}/03_Garden/meetings"
mkdir -p "{path}/04_Projects"
mkdir -p "{path}/05_Areas/content-creation/ideas"
mkdir -p "{path}/05_Areas/health/daily"
mkdir -p "{path}/06_Content"
mkdir -p "{path}/07_System/context-files"

WAVE 3: Install workflows

Copy the canonical skills and Claude Code adapters:

cp -R .agents "{path}/.agents"
cp -R .claude "{path}/.claude"

Keep /init installed so the user can inspect the setup contract later. Do not run it against the initialized vault again.

WAVE 4: Generate CLAUDE.md + AGENTS.md

Create {path}/CLAUDE.md using the answers from WAVE 1. Then copy it to {path}/AGENTS.md so Codex and other agents read the same context. Follow this structure:

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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 · 201 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 58e82ffc9735

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a skill published in the GitHub repository Railly/agent-brain (22 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,516 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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