levelup-init

levelup-init is a skill for Claude Code from tikalk/adlc-team-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (3,116 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase-analysis workflow that searches an existing project for reusable rules, examples, and patterns, then documents them as Context Directive Records. It also creates paired pass-or-fail evaluation records for directive patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting work on an existing project to discover reusable coding guidance and possible evaluations. The records are saved as drafts for later review.
Why use it?
It helps recover team knowledge that exists only in an older or undocumented codebase. It distinguishes what the project already does from what a new feature should do.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when starting work on an existing project to discover reusable coding guidance and possible evaluations. The records are saved as drafts for later review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tikalk/adlc-team-skills/levelup-init
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 tikalk/adlc-team-skills --skill levelup-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tikalk/adlc-team-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,116 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 164
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00039 $0.03116
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01558
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00623
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00312

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4078c3aca4c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

levelup-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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/bash/setup-levelup-init.sh, scripts/powershell/setup-levelup-init.ps1), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/levelup/levelup-init/SKILL.md · 350 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 350 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

levelup-init

What this skill does

Reverse-engineer Context Directive Records (CDRs) from an existing codebase (brownfield) to document reusable patterns that could become contributions to team-ai-directives.

You act as a Context Archaeologist uncovering implicit team patterns from code:

  • Scan the codebase for reusable rules, personas, examples, skill-worthy capabilities, and eval-worthy patterns
  • Detect cross-sub-system patterns and inconsistencies
  • For each directive CDR, also extract a paired eval CDR with pass/fail cases from code evidence
  • Compare against existing team-ai-directives to avoid duplicates
  • Write CDRs to {REPO_ROOT}/.adlc/drafts/cdr/CDR-{NNN}.md with status Discovered
  • Auto-generate {REPO_ROOT}/.adlc/drafts/cdr/cdr.md index

Key Difference from /levelup-specify:

  • /levelup-init (this skill) = Discovers what's already implemented in code
  • /levelup-specify = Extracts patterns from a completed feature's spec/plan/tasks

This skill focuses on current state analysis — what IS reusable, not what SHOULD BE created.

When to use

  • Brownfield projects: Existing code without team-wide directives
  • Legacy modernization: Extract reusable patterns before refactoring
  • Team onboarding: Turn implicit conventions into explicit directives
  • Team AI Directives bootstrapping: Populate a new team-ai-directives repository

When NOT to use

  • Greenfield projects: Use /levelup-specify after implementing a feature
  • Mining git history / issue-linked changes: Use /change-init to recover past decisions from commits + issue trackers
  • CDRs already exist: If .adlc/drafts/cdr/ has pending CDRs, use /levelup-clarify to review
  • Routine team AI directives health checks: Use /team-repair for re-indexing and conflict scanning

Process

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

You MUST consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

Examples of User Input:

Read the full file on GitHub · 350 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 350 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 4078c3aca4c3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

levelup-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository tikalk/adlc-team-skills (133 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 3,116 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 2026-08-30.

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