setup

setup is a skill for Claude Code from stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins. It costs 44 tokens per session (742 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup skill that creates a critical reviewer persona and a repository of verified facts for a document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a review to identify the target, define the reviewer’s role and biases, and create devils_advocate.md and fact_repository.md.
Why use it?
It ensures later criticism reflects the intended reader’s priorities and is grounded in source material.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the devils-advocate plugin — 4 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting a review to identify the target, define the reviewer’s role and biases, and create devils_advocate.md and fact_repository.md.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devils-advocate, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 742 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.
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 $0.00044 $0.00742
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00297
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00074

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6da654a0556c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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/devils-advocate/skills/setup/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Devil's Advocate - Setup

Build persona and fact repository. Always first step.

Task Tracking

MANDATORY: Use TaskCreate/TaskUpdate for identifying target, building persona, harvesting facts. Mark in_progress/completed.

Artefacts produced

  1. devils_advocate.md - persona definition
  2. fact_repository.md - verified claims

Place alongside target document.

Step 1: Identify target document

Ask user which document. Read in full.

Step 2: Build Devil Persona

MANDATORY: Persona BEFORE concerns.

Source A: User-provided seed

Seed document (evaluation, review) alongside target. Infer persona from tone, priorities. Confirm with user.

Source B: User describes persona

Ask ALL in ONE message:

"Describe the toughest reader for this document:

  1. Who are they? (role, seniority)
  2. What do they care about most? (cost, risk, timeline, compliance, quality)
  3. Style? (data-driven, gut-feel, political, legalistic)
  4. Default bias? (skeptical, risk-averse, cost-focused)
  5. What triggers them? (blame-shifting, excuses, missing numbers)
  6. What can they do? (approve, reject, escalate)"

Source C: No seed or persona

MUST ask. Never proceed with generic concerns. One message:

"No persona provided. Either: (a) Describe toughest reader (role, priorities, biases), OR (b) List 2-4 roles and I'll build a composite devil"

For groups: merge priorities (union), harshest bias per persona, weight likelihood by which persona raises each concern.

Persona documentation

Write to devils_advocate.md:

# Devil's Advocate - [Project Name]

## The Devil

**Role**: [title and context]
**Cares about**: [2-3 priorities in order]
**Style**: [how they process information]
**Default bias**: [their starting stance]
**Triggers**: [what makes them react negatively]
**Decision**: [what they can do with the document]
**Source**: [seed-inferred / user-described / composite]

---

Step 3: Harvest facts into fact_repository.md

Scan sources. Extract verifiable claims with sources.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 1mo ago First seen · 114 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 6da654a0556c

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setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 742 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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