A project-starting workflow that creates and prepares a new GitHub repository, a hosted home for code and collaboration.

Use it when starting a project from zero and needing a pushed repository with CI, release configuration, language setup, a README, and contribution or security templates.

It gathers the initial repository, license, development setup, automation, documentation, and community files into one bootstrap process.

repo-init — Skill for Claude Code by urmzd/dotfiles

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 urmzd/dotfiles --skill repo-init

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/urmzd/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/urmzd/dotfiles/repo-init/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/urmzd/dotfiles/repo-init)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/urmzd/dotfiles/repo-init"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/urmzd/dotfiles/repo-init/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/urmzd/dotfiles/repo-init"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/urmzd/dotfiles/repo-init.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 752 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.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00107	$0.00752
Opus 5.5	$0.00043	$0.00301
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00150
Haiku 4.5	$0.00011	$0.00075

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f38dc1185d37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

repo-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 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.

dot_agents/skills/repo-init/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

Repo Init

Bootstrap a complete repository from zero to pushed.

Steps

Create GitHub repo: gh repo create <name> --<visibility> --description "<description>" --clone (default public).
Add LICENSE: Create an Apache-2.0 LICENSE file in the repo root.
Scaffold: If a language is specified, invoke scaffold-project (which dispatches to scaffold-<lang>) to produce:
- CI workflow (.github/workflows/ci.yml) and release workflow (.github/workflows/release.yml); see setup-ci.
- sr.yaml for semantic release; see sync-release.
- Task runner native to the language (npm scripts, Makefile, cargo, justfile for Python).
- .envrc via the setup-devenv direnv pattern (vanilla direnv + per-language version manager, not a Nix dev shell).
- Language-specific config (Cargo.toml, go.mod, pyproject.toml, package.json, etc.).
Community health: Invoke community-health to add CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, SECURITY.md, .github/pull_request_template.md, and .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/ (bug report, feature request, config). Substitute {OWNER}, {REPO}, {CURRENT_MAJOR}, and {CHECK_COMMAND} placeholders. For a brand-new pre-1.0 project, set {CURRENT_MAJOR} to 0 and rewrite the SECURITY.md supported-versions table to 0.x Yes / < 0.x No.
README: Generate a README with the repo name, description, and standard badge layout.
Set metadata: gh repo edit --add-topic <topics> --description "<description>" with relevant topics for the language/type.
Initial commit and push:
- git add -A (safe here since it's a brand new repo)
- git commit -m "chore: initial project scaffold"
- git push -u origin main
Report: Show the repo URL.

Rules

Default to Apache-2.0 license.
Default to public visibility.
If no language is specified, create a minimal repo with just LICENSE, README, and .gitignore.
Use conventional commits for the initial commit.

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.

1mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A f38dc1185d37

Subscribe to this mod's changes

repo-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository urmzd/dotfiles (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 752 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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