init

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.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize a project, refresh its templates, update the specify tool, or reset its status line.
Why use it?
It standardizes first-time setup and upgrades while checking for errors and required restarts. This avoids manually changing project configuration in the wrong order.

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/rhuss/cc-spex/init
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, Codex.

Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,371 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 $0.00044 $0.01371
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00685
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00137

Measured 2d ago against content hash a5641ffd2682, 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.

spex/skills/init/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 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: show error, STOP.
  • 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:

  1. (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)"
  2. (multiSelect: true, header: "Workflow"): "Which workflow extensions do you want to enable?"

    • "spex-worktrees": "Git worktree isolation after speckit-specify (creates worktree in .claude/worktrees/)"
    • "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"
  3. (multiSelect: false, header: "Permissions"): "How should spex commands handle permission prompts?"

    • "Standard (Recommended)": "Auto-approve spex plugin scripts (spex-init.sh, specify CLI)"
    • "YOLO": "Auto-approve everything, bypass all permission prompts for unattended workflows"
    • "None": "Confirm every spex command before execution"

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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 · 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 (114 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,371 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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