init

init is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rvdbreemen/adr-kit. It costs 27 tokens per session (352 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project setup workflow for ADR Kit, a system that records important architecture decisions and why they were made. It audits the workspace, proposes initial decision records, and adds a commit check.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start ADR Kit in a project, review possible legacy decisions, create proposed ADRs, configure the model backend, and install the pre-commit gate.
Why use it?
It removes the need to discover old decisions, draft records, and configure the project gate by hand. It also makes the evidence and confirmation needed for each proposed decision explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the adr-kit plugin — 17 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/rvdbreemen/adr-kit/init
Any agent
npx skills add rvdbreemen/adr-kit --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rvdbreemen/adr-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install adr-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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.

agentmods badge for init

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 352 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 $0.00027 $0.00352
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00176
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00035

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9a5ac794b7b9, 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 3d 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.

codex/skills/init/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

Initialize ADR Kit (the adopt mode of setup)

Invoke explicitly with $adr-kit:init when needed. Resolve <plugin-root> from this installed skill. Use only bundled, local ADR Kit tools and follow this canonical workflow:

  1. Run the setup workflow, preview legacy ADR migration, and audit the workspace.
  2. Create selected reconstruction candidates as Proposed and present them in small batches.
  3. Use a compact confirmation grill only when the chosen decision, rationale, alternatives, and consequences have direct cited evidence; otherwise use the full grill and confirm each ADR separately.
  4. Install the ADR Kit-owned pre-commit gate, then state plainly that the declarative gate is free and always on while the LLM pass is on by default and costs one model call per llm_judge: true ADR on every commit touching its scope, linear in their number and nothing at all until an author opts one in.
  5. Record the host backend with adr-judge --set-backend host --host-client <this client's id> rather than by writing JSON (the host model is the only backend, ADR-036; operators can override per run with ADR_KIT_LLM_CMD), never prompt for or store an API key, and add docs/adr/.adr-kit.local.json to .gitignore.
  6. Finish with adr-doctor --fix-index docs/adr/.

Do not contact another model or mutate user-owned instructions.

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. 3d ago First seen · 22 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 9a5ac794b7b9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a skill published in the GitHub repository rvdbreemen/adr-kit (5 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 352 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 2026-08-31.

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