setup

setup is a skill for Claude Code from technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,627 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project setup guide that creates a principles file and connects it to the instructions used by coding agents. It first checks the repository and asks you to confirm the configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it once to document project principles, update CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, and optionally draft settings for agent hooks or tool routing.
Why use it?
It avoids manually finding the right project files and deciding where these instructions belong. It also makes the setup repeatable for the related principle-checking workflow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the stay-principled plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it once to document project principles, update CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, and optionally draft settings for agent hooks or tool routing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/setup
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 technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins --skill setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install stay-principled, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,627 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 $0.00083 $0.01627
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00651
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00163

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ce9b85f9d287, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup 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 1mo 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/stay-principled/skills/setup/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup Principles

Scaffold the per-project configuration that stay-principled:grill reads. This is a prompt-driven skill, not a deterministic script. Explore, present what you found, confirm with the user, then write.

Process

1. Explore

Look at the current repo to understand its starting state. Read whatever exists; don't assume:

  • docs/principles.md, docs/ops-principles.md, any sibling *principles*.md files at the repo root or under docs/
  • docs/agents/principles.md: existing config; update in place if found
  • CLAUDE.md (preferred) or AGENTS.md at the repo root: does either exist? Is there already an ## Agent skills section?
  • claude plugin list --json: is tool-routing installed and enabled? (Affects whether Pattern C is offered.)
  • git rev-parse --show-toplevel: used as the canonical repo root for path resolution; principles inside worktrees still live at the worktree root.

2. Present findings and ask

Summarize what's present and what's missing. Then walk the user through the four sections one at a time. Present a section, get the user's answer, then move to the next. Don't dump all sections at once.

Assume the user does not know what these terms mean. Each section starts with a short explainer (what it is, why this skill needs it, what changes if they pick differently).

Section A: Where do principles live?

Explainer: The stay-principled:grill skill needs to know which markdown files contain your principles. Most projects have one (docs/principles.md); some split into multiple (e.g. engineering vs ops). The skill reads all of them at session start to build a working set.

Default posture: if any *principles*.md files were found during exploration, list them and ask the user to confirm or adjust. Multi-file is fine. If none were found, ask the user where their principles are documented (or if they don't yet exist; in that case, suggest creating docs/principles.md and offer to scaffold a starter file before continuing).

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. 1mo ago First seen · 128 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A ce9b85f9d287

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setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,627 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-12.

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