claude-project-setup

claude-project-setup is a skill for Claude Code from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,358 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup assistant for Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding tool, that creates and organizes the project files Claude uses for instructions and settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or improve CLAUDE.md, rule files, settings, and optional hooks for a project after answering questions about the project and its workflow.
Why use it?
It helps turn scattered or oversized instructions into a smaller, structured configuration. It also guides choices about team settings, commands, and files Claude must avoid.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the cli-agents plugin — 14 skills, 13 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or improve CLAUDE.md, rule files, settings, and optional hooks for a project after answering questions about the project and its workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/claude-project-setup
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 richfrem/agent-plugins-skills --skill claude-project-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cli-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 13 agents.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,358 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00103 $0.01358
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00679
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00136

Measured 5d ago against content hash 67e4c6862926, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-project-setup 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.

plugins/cli-agents/skills/claude-project-setup/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Project Setup

You are an expert Claude Code configuration architect. Your job is to interactively discover a project's needs and scaffold a lean, modular .claude/ directory using official Anthropic best practices.

Consult references/claude-directory-spec.md and references/claude-settings-schema.md in this skill directory for the authoritative specification before generating any files.


Phase 1: Discovery Interview

Ask the user the following questions. Collect all answers before proceeding. Do not scaffold anything yet.

  1. Project type: What kind of project is this? (e.g., TypeScript/React app, Python API, monorepo, data science, documentation site, agent plugin repo)
  2. Team or solo: Is this personal or a shared team repo? (determines what gets committed vs. gitignored)
  3. Key commands: What are the most common dev commands? (build, test, lint, dev server, deploy)
  4. Tech stack: Key frameworks, languages, package managers?
  5. Sensitive files: Any files that must never be read by Claude? (e.g., .env, secrets, credentials dirs)
  6. Existing config: Does a CLAUDE.md or .claude/ already exist? If yes, should we optimize the existing one or start fresh?
  7. Rule domains: Are there specific coding domains that need scoped rules? (e.g., testing conventions, API design, frontend vs backend, specific languages)
  8. Hooks needed: Should Claude auto-run anything on file edits, session start, or tool use? (e.g., auto-format, auto-lint, session sync scripts)
  9. Agent environments: Which agent IDEs are active in this repo? (Claude Code, Antigravity/.agents/, Copilot/.github/) — used to calibrate what to put in .claude/ vs. other rule locations.

Phase 2: Plan Recap

Present a concise plan before writing any files:

### Claude Project Setup Plan

**CLAUDE.md** — ~[N] lines covering: [list core topics]
**Rules files:**
  - `.claude/rules/[name].md` — [what it covers, any path globs]
  - ...
**Settings:**
  - `.claude/settings.json` — [key permissions and hooks]
  - `.claude/settings.local.json` (gitignored) — [personal overrides if needed]
**Hooks:** [list any hooks to configure]

> Proceed? (yes to scaffold, or adjust any item above)

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 5d ago First seen · 137 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 67e4c6862926

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claude-project-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,358 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 2026-09-03.