harness-bootstrap

harness-bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code from RockyHong/super-bootstrap. It costs 170 tokens per session (14,453 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A setup command that installs or updates a development workflow and documentation structure in a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in a new or existing repository to create or sync `CLAUDE.md`, coding standards, project docs, decision records, specifications, work folders, path-specific rules, and the core plugin reference.
Why use it?
It gives a project shared working rules, starter documentation, work-card storage, and a process for keeping those documents aligned with later changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the super-bootstrap plugin — 13 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it in a new or existing repository to create or sync CLAUDE.md, coding standards, project docs, decision records, specifications, work folders, path-specific rules, and the core plugin reference.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add RockyHong/super-bootstrap
Claude Code
/plugin install super-bootstrap

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install super-bootstrap, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 7 agents.

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 170 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 14,453 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00170 $0.14453
Opus 5 $0.00085 $0.07226
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.02891
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.01445

Measured 2d ago against content hash b3cec6f1630b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

harness-bootstrap scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (assets/hooks/commit-channel.sh, assets/hooks/consult-check-check.sh, assets/hooks/consult-check-sessionstart.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

Throughout this skill — Phase 1 detection, anywhere Claude reads source files — **paraphrase structure into committed docs; never paste raw file contents.** Skip files whose names suggest secrets (e.g. `.env*`, `*.key`,
plugins/super-bootstrap/skills/harness-bootstrap/SKILL.md · 603 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 603 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Super Bootstrap — Development Pipeline for Any Repo

Set up (or sync) the development pipeline in a project. Installs harness — workflow rules, doc-sync gate, skeleton docs, the core plugin pin — in one scaffold session. The doc-sync gate at every later commit grows the skeleton docs over time, so there's no deferred deep-scan stage.

Designed for a solo developer working across multiple Claude Code sessions and cloud Claude Code.

Phase 1: Quick Scan (lightweight, parallel reads)

Gather just enough to scaffold — skim manifests for stack/version, note structure shape, stop.

Check contributor count (git shortlog -sn --all | head -5). If >1 active contributor, surface as info — don't block:

"FYI: detected multiple contributors. The pipeline's CLAUDE.md assumes solo dev (simple branching, no PRs for self-review). You can edit those sections after bootstrap if your team's workflow differs."

Sampling Discipline (applies to all source-file reads)

Throughout this skill — Phase 1 detection, anywhere Claude reads source files — paraphrase structure into committed docs; never paste raw file contents. Skip files whose names suggest secrets (e.g. .env*, *.key, *.pem, id_*, *credential*, *secret*, .npmrc, .netrc, *.p12 / *.pfx, *.keystore, kubeconfig — illustrative, judge by name).

When skipping, surface to user: ⊘ skipped <path> (likely secret).

Reason: reading alone isn't the breach — Claude's context isn't shared. The breach is quoting raw content into auto-committed docs (techstack.md, overview.md): a gitignored secret becomes permanent in git history. Defense lives in the write step. The illustrative list seeds pattern recognition for the skip step; new secret-bearing patterns are judged by name, not table lookup.

Manifest Detection

Detect language/runtime by manifest files at repo root (e.g. package.json, tsconfig.json, pyproject.toml / requirements.txt, Cargo.toml, go.mod, Gemfile, pom.xml / build.gradle, composer.json, pubspec.yaml, CMakeLists.txt / Makefile, *.csproj / *.sln — illustrative, not exhaustive). Don't read fully — skim each for runtime/version, top-level deps, scripts/build commands. Cover unlisted stacks (Bun, Deno, Zig, Elixir, Gleam, etc.) by analogy from the manifest's contents.

Read the full file on GitHub · 603 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 Changed · +2 lines b3cec6f1630b
  2. 7d ago First seen · 601 lines · 170 tokens per session scan C ea23eed8d517

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harness-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository RockyHong/super-bootstrap (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 170 tokens to every session and 14,453 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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