A setup guide for starting a software repository from scratch. It configures Git, GitHub, automated checks, release workflows, and related project tools.

Use it to create a new repository, choose project-specific tools, add formatting, linting, type checks, tests, builds, and Git hooks, and configure GitHub workflows and releases.

It removes the need to assemble repository settings, checks, and deployment automation by hand. It also helps catch setup problems before work is shared or released.

start-right — Skill for Claude Code by slamb2k

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 slamb2k/mad-skills --skill start-right

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/slamb2k/mad-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mad-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 2 hooks.

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/slamb2k/mad-skills/start-right/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/start-right)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/start-right"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/start-right/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/start-right"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/start-right.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,998 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00175	$0.02998
Opus 5	$0.00088	$0.01499
Sonnet 5	$0.00035	$0.00600
Haiku 4.5	$0.00017	$0.00300

Measured 9d ago against content hash cbd61836d221, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

start-right 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/generate_workflows.py, scripts/init_git_repo.py, scripts/setup_branch_protection.py, …), 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.

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.

archive/start-right/SKILL.md · 377 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 377 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Start Right

Complete repository initialization and scaffolding for new projects with production-ready CI/CD workflows, validation checks, and automated releases.

Overview

This skill provides end-to-end repository setup for solo developers, automating everything from git initialization to production deployment workflows. It handles project type detection, appropriate tooling configuration, GitHub repository creation, branch protection, validation checks, git hooks, and comprehensive GitHub Actions workflows.

Workflow Decision Tree

When a user requests repo initialization/scaffolding:

Determine project type → Detect or ask user for project type (node/typescript/react/rust/python/go/docker/skill)
Gather preferences → Ask about:
- Repository visibility (public/private)
- Organization (if applicable)
- Validation checks to enable (format, lint, type-check, test, build, integration-test)
- Git hooks preference (husky for Node.js projects, lefthook for others)
- Release strategy (npm, github-pages, vercel, docker, binary, pypi, crates.io, skill)
Execute scaffolding → Run setup scripts in order
Verify and report → Confirm all components are configured correctly

Scaffolding Process

Step 1: Prerequisites Check

Before starting, verify:

Git is installed
GitHub CLI (gh) is installed and authenticated
Current directory is the intended project location
Directory is empty or contains minimal files

# Check prerequisites
git --version
gh --version
gh auth status

If prerequisites are missing, provide installation instructions:

Git: brew install git (macOS) or system package manager
GitHub CLI: brew install gh or from https://cli.github.com
Authentication: gh auth login

Step 2: Git Initialization

Initialize git repository with main as default branch:

python3 scripts/init_git_repo.py <repo-name> [--private] [--org <org>] [--type <project-type>]

Options:

--private: Create private repository (default: public)
--org <n>: Create under organization
--type <type>: Project type for appropriate .gitignore (node, python, rust, go)

Read the full file on GitHub · 377 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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.

9d ago First seen · 377 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A cbd61836d221

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start-right is a skill published in the GitHub repository slamb2k/mad-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 2,998 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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