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.
npx skills add the-open-agent/oss-skills --skill repo-bootstrapgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/the-open-agent/oss-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-open-agent/oss-skills/repo-bootstrap)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-open-agent/oss-skills/repo-bootstrap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/the-open-agent/oss-skills/repo-bootstrap/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-open-agent/oss-skills/repo-bootstrap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/the-open-agent/oss-skills/repo-bootstrap.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00111 | $0.01692 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00056 | $0.00846 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00022 | $0.00338 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00169 |
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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Repo Bootstrap
Getting the substrate right once removes a hundred small frictions later. This skill covers the baseline files, the ordering, and the pre-publication scrub that catches what you cannot un-publish.
Order of operations
Do these in order. Each unlocks the next.
- Name and one-liner — you cannot write a README without them
- License — before the first external contribution, not after (
license-and-legal) .gitignore+.editorconfig— before the first commit that leaks build artifacts- README skeleton — install → usage → why (
readme-that-converts) - CI — a green check on the first PR sets the standard (
ci-pipelines) - CONTRIBUTING + CODE_OF_CONDUCT — before you invite anyone
- Issue/PR templates — before the issue tracker gets noisy (
issue-triage) - SECURITY.md — before someone needs to report a vulnerability (
supply-chain-security) - First tagged release — an untagged repo reads as unfinished (
release-engineering)
The baseline file set
| File | Non-negotiable? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
LICENSE |
Yes | Full text, exact SPDX-recognized copy. Not a link. |
README.md |
Yes | The whole project for 95% of visitors. |
.gitignore |
Yes | Start from github/gitignore for your language. |
CONTRIBUTING.md |
Yes once public | Setup, test, PR expectations. |
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md |
Yes once public | Contributor Covenant 2.1 + a real contact address. |
SECURITY.md |
Yes once used | Reporting channel + supported versions. |
.github/workflows/ci.yml |
Yes | Even one job. Red/green is a social signal. |
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/ |
At stage 2+ | Forms (.yml) beat markdown templates. |
.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md |
At stage 2+ | Short. Long ones get deleted by contributors. |
.editorconfig |
Yes | Kills the tabs/spaces PR diff noise permanently. |
CHANGELOG.md |
At first release | See release-engineering. |
CODEOWNERS |
At 3+ maintainers | Auto-assigns review. |
.github/dependabot.yml |
Yes | See dependency-hygiene. |
GOVERNANCE.md |
At stage 5 | Premature for solo projects. |
What ships with it
3 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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 132 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A 9e20ffdf148d
repo-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository the-open-agent/oss-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 1,692 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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