A project initialization or update procedure built around the specify command-line tool. It can refresh templates, upgrade the tool, or clear status information, then asks which extensions and permissions to enable.

Use it to initialize a project, refresh its templates, update the specify tool, or reset its status line.

It standardizes first-time setup and upgrades while checking for errors and required restarts. This avoids manually changing project configuration in the wrong order.

init — Skill for Claude Code by rhuss/cc-spex

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 rhuss/cc-spex --skill init

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rhuss/cc-spex

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install spex, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 8 commands.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rhuss/cc-spex/init/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rhuss/cc-spex/init)

Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,522 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: 2 findings, up to medium

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 →

medium Excessive Agency · line 32
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
medium Excessive Agency · line 33
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00044	$0.01522
Opus 5.5	$0.00018	$0.00609
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00009	$0.00304
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00152

Measured yesterday against content hash f9be3e26c75c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 yesterday.

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.

spex/skills/init/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You MUST complete ALL steps below. Do not stop after Step 1.

Step 1: Run init script

Run the command from <spex-init-command> in the <spex-context> system reminder. This is your first and only Bash call. Do not run anything else before it.

If output contains NEED_INSTALL: show output, STOP.
If output contains ERROR or the script exits with a non-zero status other than 3 (3 means RESTART_REQUIRED): show the error, STOP. Do not continue to Step 2, Step 3 or the restart advice.
- In particular, init exits with status 1 and ERROR: spex-worktrees requires the spec-kit git extension when spex-worktrees is enabled but the git extension cannot be enabled. Show the message with its two fixes (specify extension add git / specify extension enable git, or specify extension disable spex-worktrees) and tell the user to run /spex:init again afterwards.
If the command was run with --refresh or --update and output contains RESTART_REQUIRED: SKIP Steps 2 and 3. Templates and extensions were refreshed but the existing configuration (enabled extensions, permissions) is preserved. Go directly to Step 4 and report that the refresh completed. Tell the user to restart Claude Code.
If output contains READY or RESTART_REQUIRED: do not summarize yet, go to Step 2.

Step 2: Ask about extensions and permissions

You MUST ask all 3 questions below in a SINGLE AskUserQuestion call. Do NOT split, merge, reword, or reorder them. Pass them exactly as specified:

(multiSelect: true, header: "Quality"): "Which quality & review extensions do you want to enable?"
- "spex-gates": "Quality gates on speckit commands (review-spec, review-code, verification)"
- "spex-deep-review": "Multi-perspective code review with autonomous fix loop (5 agents)"
- "spex-teams": "Parallel implementation with spec guardian review via Agent Teams (experimental, requires: spex-gates)"
(multiSelect: true, header: "Workflow"): "Which workflow extensions do you want to enable?"
- "spex-worktrees": "Git worktree isolation: speckit-specify creates the worktree (in .claude/worktrees/) before the feature branch, so the main checkout never switches (requires the git extension)"
- "spex-collab": "Phase-split collaboration with REVIEWERS.md for team PRs"
- "spex-detach": "Strip spec artifacts at PR time for contributing to repos that don't use SDD"

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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.

yesterday Changed · +1 lines f9be3e26c75c
1mo ago First seen · 87 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A a5641ffd2682

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a skill published in the GitHub repository rhuss/cc-spex (120 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,522 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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