keystone-bootstrap

keystone-bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tacoda/keystone. It costs 25 tokens per session (709 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A one-time setup routine that examines a code repository and fills in its project-specific guidance files. It detects the programming stack, records useful commands and folders, and creates indexes for the repository’s rules and checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it immediately after starting a Keystone project. It helps prepare codebase state, stack-specific guidance, editor and formatter information, and a list of runnable checks.
Why use it?
It removes the need to replace generic setup templates by hand. It also gives the coding agent concrete information about how the repository is organised and checked.

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/tacoda/keystone/keystone-bootstrap
Any agent
npx skills add tacoda/keystone --skill keystone-bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tacoda/keystone

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 709 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00025 $0.00709
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00354
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 4d ago against content hash 210d6eb5d85e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

keystone-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 4d 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.

.charter/skills/keystone-bootstrap/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

keystone:bootstrap — make the charter specific to your codebase

The first thing to run after keystone init. Walks the repo, detects the real stack, and replaces every template placeholder under .charter/corpus/state/ with code-grounded values.

The canonical playbook is the bootstrap action at .charter/actions/bootstrap.md. This skill is a thin trigger that points the agent at it — open the action and execute its activities in order.

Run

Open .charter/actions/bootstrap.md and execute every activity listed under ## Activities. Every activity must land a real file change before moving on; narration does not count.

A short summary of the work, copied from the action:

  1. Detect the stack (package.json, go.mod, pyproject.toml, …).
  2. Seed corpus/state/CODEBASE_STATE.md with real tool commands + region map.
  3. Scaffold corpus/idioms/<stack>/ + paired guides/idioms/<stack>/ with globs: derived from the region map.
  4. Inventory guides/computational/ from .editorconfig, LSP config, formatter configs.
  5. Classify every sensor under sensors/ as runnable or not for the selected adapter.
  6. Build corpus/state/GLOBS_INDEX.md — the reverse index from glob → guides.
  7. Project rules to the agent's native surface (.cursor/rules/, .claude/skills/, or the index-driven path for pointer-style adapters).

After every state-file write or new primitive, run keystone index so .keystone/INDEX.json reflects the new shape. If skills, subagents, or commands changed, run keystone project to regenerate .claude/.

When to trigger

  • Immediately after keystone init, before the first real task.
  • After a major stack change (new language, framework upgrade, monolith → services split) — re-bootstrap to refresh the region map and idiom seeds.

Completion check

Bootstrap is not done until:

  • grep -E '<[^>]+>' .charter/corpus/state/CODEBASE_STATE.md returns no template placeholders.
  • last_reconciled in CODEBASE_STATE.md is today's date.
  • corpus/idioms/<stack>/ and guides/idioms/<stack>/ exist for each detected stack.
  • Every seeded idiom guide declares real globs:.
  • corpus/state/GLOBS_INDEX.md lists at least one row per seeded guide (or is explicitly empty).

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 4d ago First seen · 83 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 210d6eb5d85e

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keystone-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository tacoda/keystone (44 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 709 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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