repo-bootstrap

repo-bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tamnguyendinh/Anvien. It costs 16 tokens per session (2,424 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for preparing a new repository with the decisions and documentation needed before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define the repository blueprint, technology rules, domain requirements, environment setup, test strategy, and handoff checklist.
Why use it?
It prevents developers or coding agents from guessing about the project type, boundaries, tools, testing, packaging, and release process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define the repository blueprint, technology rules, domain requirements, environment setup, test strategy, and handoff checklist.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tamnguyendinh/anvien/repo-bootstrap
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 tamnguyendinh/Anvien --skill repo-bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tamnguyendinh/Anvien

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,424 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00016 $0.02424
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.01212
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00242

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2e4f03536fcc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

repo-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 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.

internal/aicontext/skills/repo-bootstrap/SKILL.md · 355 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 355 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repo Bootstrap

Goal: create the minimum complete source-of-truth package that lets an AI agent or developer start implementation without guessing. Do not force every repo into an app/backend/SaaS shape. Classify the repository first, then select the right lanes.

Core Rule

Bootstrap is decision work before coding. It must make the next implementation agent's choices explicit:

  • what the repo is
  • what it must and must not do
  • which technologies are approved
  • where boundaries are
  • how to run, test, package, release, and verify it
  • which decisions are still blocked

If a decision affects code, dependencies, public API, data shape, runtime behavior, deployment, or QA, do not leave it implicit.

Workflow

Run these phases in order.

[0] Repository Type Classification
[1] Project Context
[2] Architecture / Repo Blueprint
[3] Toolchain & Dependency Policy
[4] Conditional Domain Specs
[5] Technical Standards
[6] Environment, Packaging, Release
[7] Test & QA Strategy
[8] Handoff Checklist

Do not skip phase 0. The old fixed sequence of Database -> API -> DevOps is valid for many app repos, but wrong for many libraries, CLIs, docs repos, infrastructure repos, MCP servers, firmware, games, and data/ML repos.

Phase 0 - Repository Type Classification

Classify the repo before writing detailed specs.

Record:

## Repository Classification

- Repository type:
- Primary users:
- Runtime target:
- Main deliverable:
- Interface surface:
- Data persistence:
- Deployment/distribution:
- Required conditional lanes:
- Explicitly not applicable lanes:

Use this guide:

Repository Need Select Lane
Web app, fullstack app, backend API, SaaS product App / Service
Reusable package, SDK, framework, internal library Library / SDK
Command-line tool or developer utility CLI
Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation/Kubernetes/platform config Infrastructure / IaC
Data pipeline, analytics, ML/model repo Data / ML
Native or cross-platform mobile app Mobile
Browser extension Browser Extension
MCP server, plugin, agent tool integration MCP / Plugin
Docs/wiki/content-only repo Documentation
Embedded, hardware, firmware Embedded / Firmware
Game, graphics, simulation, 3D app Game / Graphics
Electron/Tauri/native desktop app Desktop App
Monorepo with multiple packages/apps Monorepo
Multi-tenant SaaS SaaS Multi-Tenant
Frontend with complex UI system Design System
Blockchain/Web3 Blockchain / Web3

Read the full file on GitHub · 355 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 355 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 2e4f03536fcc

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repo-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository tamnguyendinh/Anvien (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 2,424 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 2026-09-03.