What is project-bootstrap?

A setup workflow for starting a new software project from a starter kit. It gathers the project details, fills context files, adapts agent roles, and creates the first specification.

Use it when creating a project with a defined technology stack, business modules, architecture, and cloud setup.

It turns basic project information into the documents and settings an agent needs before development begins. It is intended for new projects, not changes to an already initialized one.

How systemowiec/ai-agents-workspace-starter configures Claude Code and

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to systemowiec/ai-agents-workspace-starter. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/systemowiec/ai-agents-workspace-starter

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When invoked 625 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.

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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	$0.00024	$0.00625
Opus 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00250
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00125
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00063

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2c92402c0c11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-bootstrap 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 2mo 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.

.agents/skills/project-bootstrap/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Bootstrap - Project Initialization

Overview

One-time skill executed at the start of a project (after make setup). Fills in the project context, adapts agent roles, creates the first spec.

When to Use

New project based on this starter kit
When the user runs /project-init
When .agents/context/project-overview.md contains [TODO]

When NOT to use:

Project already initialized (no [TODO] in context)
Modifying an existing project

Process

1. Gather information from the user

Ask about:

Project name (use in CLAUDE.md, .env)
Project description (2-3 sentences)
Technology stack (backend, frontend, database)
Business modules (what the system will do)
Architecture (monolith / microservices / API-only)
Cloud provider (AWS / GCP / other / none)

2. Fill in context files

Based on the answers:

File	What to fill in
`.agents/context/project-overview.md`	Create from `docs/templates/_project-overview.md`, fill stack, modules, diagram
`CLAUDE.md`	Replace `[PROJECT_NAME]` with the name
`.env`	Create based on project needs

3. Adapt agent roles

Based on the stack:

If...	Then...
No frontend (API-only)	Remove `frontend-engineer.md` from `.agents/roles/`
Django instead of FastAPI	Adapt `backend-engineer.md`
No UI framework	Adapt `frontend-engineer.md`
GitHub Actions instead of GitLab CI	Adapt `platform-engineer.md`

4. Create architecture documentation

Fill in docs/specs/ (architecture)
Add architecture diagram (mermaid)
Justify technology choices

5. Create the first spec

ARCH-001: Project Setup
Scope: infrastructure (Docker, DB), backend structure, optionally frontend
Use template: docs/templates/_spec.md

6. Call the Platform Engineer

Propose:

Creating infra/docker-compose.yml
Creating Dockerfiles
Configuring Makefile (if needed)

7. Verify

Check:

No [TODO] in project-overview.md
CLAUDE.md has the project name
Roles are adapted to the stack
ARCH-001 exists
make setup can be run

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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.

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project-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository systemowiec/ai-agents-workspace-starter (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 625 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

Planning

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