create-project

An interactive setup process that asks questions and fills the project context files for a new or empty software project. It records the project's background and working context before feature development begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Bootstrapping a new project by documenting its context under `.sdlc/context/`, while leaving goals to a separate setup step.
Why use it?
An empty project has no existing code to explain its purpose or structure. The interview captures information that cannot be reliably guessed from files.

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/tomzx/agents/create-project
Any agent
npx skills add tomzx/agents --skill create-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomzx/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,684 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 $0.00073 $0.01684
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00842
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00337
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00168

Measured 2d ago against content hash c56d72b85524, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-project 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/create-project/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Project

Populates the project context files under .sdlc/context/ by interviewing the user, so a new or empty project has full context before any feature work starts.

initialize-sdlc-directory creates the context files as stubs, and sync-sdlc fills them by analyzing existing code. An empty project has no code to analyze, which leaves stubs. This skill closes that gap: it asks, one topic per round, the questions the stubs need answered, and writes each file as its round completes.

goals.md is deliberately out of scope: /create-goals owns it (see Next Step).

Prerequisites

  • Apply the shared SDLC conventions in skills/sdlc/references/shared.md.
  • Optional project root ($1); defaults to the current working directory.
  • The user is available to answer questions (this skill is interactive; never invent answers).

Steps

  1. If the project root already contains source code (not just scaffolding like .git/ or a README), ask the user whether /sync-sdlc is the better tool, since code analysis produces more accurate context than an interview. Proceed only if the user confirms.

  2. If .sdlc/ does not exist at the project root, load and run initialize-sdlc-directory with $1 first, per the Skill Handoff rule in shared.md, then continue here.

  3. Read every existing file under .sdlc/context/. Sections that are already filled in count as answered; only ask about what is missing or still a placeholder.

  4. If .sdlc/context/review-project.md exists with verdict: changes-requested, operate in Revision Mode (below) instead of running the full interview.

  5. Run one interview round per topic, in this order. Each round presents four to six numbered questions about that topic only, then waits for the answers. The user may skip any question.

    Round File Ask about
    1 project-overview.md What the project does and the problem it solves, key stakeholders, in-scope and out-of-scope capabilities, hard constraints (technical, business, regulatory)
    2 architecture.md Major components and their responsibilities, how data flows between them, core domain entities and their relationships, intended topology. For an empty project, capture the intended architecture and mark it as planned
    3 infrastructure.md Language, runtime, framework, and database choices, development tooling and its exact commands, environments, CI/CD pipelines, deployment and rollback
    4 conventions.md Naming (files, functions, classes), directory structure, coding standards, commit message format, branching strategy, how SDLC artifacts should be written
    5 vocabulary.md Domain terms the project will use, technical terms, acronyms and abbreviations

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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 · 135 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A c56d72b85524

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomzx/agents (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,684 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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