create

A project-creation tool that starts new projects from templates for things such as bots, extensions, mobile apps, npm packages, and deployments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list available templates and scaffold a named project with an optional description and output directory.
Why use it?
It avoids manually copying starter files and handles the template setup and initial Git repository creation.

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/starter-series/create-starter/create
Any agent
npx skills add starter-series/create-starter --skill create
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/starter-series/create-starter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 688 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00043 $0.00688
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00344
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00069

Measured yesterday against content hash da3d6c94d97d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create scanned grade A 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 yesterday.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

The `create-starter` MCP server exposes two tools. Use them directly — do **not** shell out to `curl`, `tar`, or `git clone`.
skills/create/SKILL.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are scaffolding a new project using the Starter Series templates via the create-starter MCP server.

How to invoke

The create-starter MCP server exposes two tools. Use them directly — do not shell out to curl, tar, or git clone.

  • list_templates — returns the full template table as JSON.
  • create_project — scaffolds a new project.

Workflow

  1. Pick a template. If the user named one explicitly, resolve it against the registry below. If not, call list_templates and ask the user to pick one.
  2. Collect required input:
    • name (required) — project name. Must match ^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_-]*$ (alnum start, then [A-Za-z0-9_-] only). No dots, no spaces, no path separators.
    • description (optional) — one-line description that replaces the template default.
    • output_dir (optional) — where to create the project. Defaults to ./<name> relative to the MCP server's cwd.
  3. Call create_project with the gathered arguments. The server handles download, extraction, placeholder substitution, Python package renaming, and git init.
  4. Report the next steps from the tool's response (it returns a cd-then-install sequence tuned to the template).

Template registry

ID Name Category
mcp-server MCP Server (TypeScript) mcp
mcp-server-python MCP Server (Python) mcp
npm-package npm Package package
discord-bot Discord Bot bot
telegram-bot Telegram Bot bot
browser-extension Browser Extension (MV3) extension
vscode-extension VS Code Extension extension
electron-app Electron App app
react-native React Native (Expo) app
cloudflare-pages Cloudflare Pages deploy
docker-deploy Docker Deploy (language-agnostic) deploy

Call list_templates for the authoritative, up-to-date list with full metadata.

Rules

  • Never invent template IDs. Only use IDs returned by list_templates or present in the table above.
  • Never construct tarball URLs or shell commands yourself — always go through create_project.
  • If the tool returns an isError: true response, surface the message verbatim and stop; do not retry with a different name unless the user asks.
  • After a successful scaffold, suggest reviewing .env.example if the output mentions environment variables, and remind the user that git init has already run — they just need to add a remote.
  • Keep your response concise: one line confirming the template + name, then the next-step commands as a code block.

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 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. yesterday First seen · 50 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A da3d6c94d97d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create is a skill published in the GitHub repository starter-series/create-starter (1 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 688 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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