init

init is a skill for Claude Code from swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw. It costs 38 tokens per session (347 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project setup command for VBW, a workflow that turns agreed requirements into planned, tested, and committed code. It creates VBW files in a Git repository, adds a status line, and starts a conversation about what to build.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize VBW, enable its status line and workflows, and begin defining a project. Git is a tool that records code changes over time.
Why use it?
It removes the manual setup needed before using VBW. It also makes the project’s requirements and plan available in one place before work begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

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 vbw plugin — 34 skills, 7 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to initialize VBW, enable its status line and workflows, and begin defining a project. Git is a tool that records code changes over time.

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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 swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw
Claude Code
/plugin install vbw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vbw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 7 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 347 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 $0.00038 $0.00347
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00139
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00035

Measured today against content hash c4de9e1a65f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 today.

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.

plugin/skills/init/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/vbw" init 2>&1 || true
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/vbw" statusline on 2>&1 || true
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/vbw" workflows on 2>&1 || true
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/vbw" interview 2>&1 || true

Write to the user's level, explanation depth and involvement (above; "-": plain words).

Tell the user in a few lines what was set up (from the output above), including the VBW status line (if it replaced their own status line, say that vbw statusline off brings theirs back). If project commands were detected, say they will run only after the user approves them. If VBW needs a git repository, offer to run git init.

Headless use (claude -p, CI) needs one allow rule per workflow; mention only if asked: Workflow(vbw:mapping), Workflow(vbw:planning), Workflow(vbw:verifying), Workflow(vbw:researching), Workflow(vbw:building), Workflow(vbw:fixing), Workflow(vbw:investigating).

Then continue with the vbw:vibe skill, which starts the spec conversation.

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. today First seen · 27 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A c4de9e1a65f6

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init is a skill published in the GitHub repository swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw (85 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 347 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 2026-10-22.

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