init

A seven-question setup interview for choosing how an AI assistant formats its replies. It runs only when the user explicitly invokes `/squirrel:init`.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set reply preferences through one multiple-choice question at a time, with progress shown throughout the interview.
Why use it?
It avoids guessing the user's preferred language, tone, layout, and level of explanation. The answers create a personal response-formatting profile.

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/thgmatajs/squirrel-mode/init
Any agent
npx skills add thgMatajs/squirrel-mode --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thgMatajs/squirrel-mode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,108 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 $0.00035 $0.02108
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01054
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00422
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00211

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4755e649b268, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init 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 2d 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.

skills/init/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.

squirrel-mode calibration

/squirrel:init builds the user's personal squirrel-mode profile through a seven-question interview. Follow this procedure exactly, in every session it runs in.

Rules for the whole interview

  1. Ask exactly one question per message. Never combine two questions in the same message, and never ask a follow-up question in the same message as the question itself.
  2. Every question is multiple-choice, with two to four options labeled A, B, C, D (only as many as the question needs, never more than four), plus a final line offering "or type your own answer". When the reply is a free-form answer rather than a lettered option, map it to the closest listed option by meaning, and state which one you mapped it to in one line, before continuing. This applies to every question in this interview, not only question 2 - question 2's own mapping table below is the one case detailed enough to need its own worked example, not a special case.
  3. Show progress on every question in the exact form Question N of 7 (for example Question 3 of 7), where N is the number of the current question.
  4. Wait for the user's reply before asking the next question.
  5. If a reply matches neither a lettered option nor a plausible free-form answer, ask the same question again once, still showing the same Question N of 7 line.
  6. Before the profile exists, mirror the language the user is currently writing in for the questions and the confirmation. This interview is what creates language; it cannot yet read a value that does not exist.
  7. If the user goes off-script mid-interview - asks something unrelated, reports a problem, or otherwise does not answer the current question - address what they raised first, then ask whether to resume from the same question you were on before that happened. Do not silently drop the interview, and do not resume without asking.

The seven questions, in order

Question 1 of 7: Language

Ask which language responses should use.

A. Portuguese (pt-BR) B. English (en) C. Spanish (es) D. Match whatever language I write in (auto)

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. 2d ago First seen · 128 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 4755e649b268

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a skill published in the GitHub repository thgMatajs/squirrel-mode (2 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,108 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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