initializing-ledger

initializing-ledger is a skill for Claude Code from synaptiai/synapti-marketplace. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,229 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill that starts a new product-development project by turning a project brief into a structured Context Ledger workspace. The ledger records evidence, decisions, goals, users, and constraints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when beginning a product project that needs an organized record of what is being built, for whom, why, and within which limits.
Why use it?
It creates a traceable starting point so later work can be connected back to the original brief and decisions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; names the TodoWrite tool.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is **Path:** ./ledger/.

Part of the context-ledger plugin — 5 skills, 8 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when beginning a product project that needs an organized record of what is being built, for whom, why, and within which limits.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synaptiai/synapti-marketplace
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/initializing-ledger

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install context-ledger, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 8 commands, 5 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,229 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 $0.00030 $0.01229
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00615
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00123

Measured 8d ago against content hash 19812f0d2da2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

initializing-ledger 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 8d 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/context-ledger/skills/initializing-ledger/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ledger Initialization

This skill creates a complete Context Ledger workspace from a project brief.

Prerequisites

  • User must provide a project brief (text description of what they're building)
  • Optionally: custom path for ledger workspace (default: ./ledger/)

Workflow

Use TodoWrite to track these mandatory steps:

Step 1: Parse the Brief

Extract from the user's input:

Component Description Required
Core idea What is being built (1-2 sentences) Yes
Target users Who will use this Yes
Key goals What success looks like Yes
Constraints What's explicitly out of scope Recommended
Context Any domain-specific information Optional

If the brief is too vague, use AskUserQuestion to clarify:

Question: "Your brief mentions [X] but I need more clarity on [Y]. Can you specify?"
Options:
- "[Interpretation A]"
- "[Interpretation B]"
- "Let me provide more detail"

Step 2: Validate Brief Completeness

Check that the brief supports downstream work:

Check Pass Criteria
Scope clarity Can identify what's in/out
User clarity Can describe target users
Goal measurability At least one goal is falsifiable
Constraint presence At least one constraint stated

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 186 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 19812f0d2da2

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initializing-ledger is a skill published in the GitHub repository synaptiai/synapti-marketplace (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,229 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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