Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheSmuks/ai-project-templatenpx agentmods add skills/thesmuks/ai-project-template/template-guideWrote 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/thesmuks/ai-project-template/template-guide)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thesmuks/ai-project-template/template-guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thesmuks/ai-project-template/template-guide/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/thesmuks/ai-project-template/template-guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thesmuks/ai-project-template/template-guide.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 | $0.00018 | $0.01630 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00652 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00326 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00163 |
Grade A, and why
template-guide 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Template Guide
A skill for navigating ai-project-template conventions, auditing compliance, and guiding upgrades.
When to Use
Invoke this skill when:
- You are new to a project scaffolded from
ai-project-template - You are reviewing a PR against a project using this template
- You need to check whether a project follows template conventions
- A user asks how to update their project to a newer template version
- You encounter a file you don't recognize and need to understand its purpose
Conventions Reference
Core Files
| File | Purpose | Key sections |
|---|---|---|
AGENTS.md |
Project-level context for AI coding agents | Project Overview, Build & Run, Code Style, CI/CD, Agent Behavior |
README.md |
Human-facing project documentation | Features, Quick Start, What's Included, Documentation |
CONTRIBUTING.md |
Development guidelines | Commits, Branches, Changelog, Code Review |
CHANGELOG.md |
Version history (Keep a Changelog format) | [Unreleased], [0.x.0] headers with Added/Changed/Fixed/Removed |
ARCHITECTURE.md |
System design documentation | Components, data flow, dependencies |
UPGRADING.md |
Re-sync guide for template upgrades | Version check, diff, merge, verify |
ADOPTING.md |
First-time adoption guide for existing repos | Pre-flight audit, incremental adoption phases |
SETUP_GUIDE.md |
Greenfield setup instructions | Required info, setup checklist, quality gates |
CI/CD Files
| File | Purpose | Trigger |
|---|---|---|
.github/workflows/ci.yml |
Lint, typecheck, test | push + PR to main |
.github/workflows/commit-lint.yml |
Enforces Conventional Commits | PR + push |
.github/workflows/changelog-check.yml |
Requires CHANGELOG.md updates | PR only |
.github/workflows/blob-size-policy.yml |
Rejects oversized files | PR only |
docs/ci.md |
CI architecture guide | Reference |
Agent Configuration
| File/Directory | Purpose |
|---|---|
.omp/agents/ |
Agent definitions (code-reviewer, adr-writer, changelog-updater) |
.omp/skills/ |
Agent skills (e.g., template-guide) |
.omp/settings.json |
OMP configuration |
.omp/rules/ |
Agent rules |
.omp/hooks/ |
Pre/post hooks |
.omp/tools/ |
Agent tools |
What ships with it
1 file 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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 166 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A cd587a91b9f5
template-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheSmuks/ai-project-template (8 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,630 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.
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This skill should be used when the user asks about "project setup", "project initialization", "repository setup", "new project", "bootstrap project", "project structure", "development environment", "toolchain setup", "project configuration", or needs guidance on setting up new projects that comply with SDLC standards.
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This skill should be used when the user asks about "AI development", "AI coding", "AI assistant", "CLAUDE.md", "AI context", "AI guidelines", "code generation", "AI workflow", "AI review", "AI configuration", or needs guidance on configuring AI assistants and AI-assisted development workflows.