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/urmzd/dotfilesnpx agentmods add skills/urmzd/dotfiles/scaffold-projectWrote 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/urmzd/dotfiles/scaffold-project)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/urmzd/dotfiles/scaffold-project"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/urmzd/dotfiles/scaffold-project/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/urmzd/dotfiles/scaffold-project"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/urmzd/dotfiles/scaffold-project.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 | $0.00137 | $0.02528 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00055 | $0.01011 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00027 | $0.00506 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00253 |
Grade A, and why
scaffold-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 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 — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Project Scaffolding
Development Philosophy
Every project should be understandable by a junior developer. Self-documenting structure. Skills as documentation. Minimal setup friction.
Language-Specific Scaffolds
After generating standard files, load the appropriate language skill for CI/CD, release, and tooling:
| Language | Skill | Key Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Rust | scaffold-rust |
cargo, clippy, rustfmt, cross, crates.io |
| Go | scaffold-go |
go, golangci-lint, gofmt |
| Python | scaffold-python |
uv, ruff, pytest, ty |
| Node/TS | scaffold-node |
pnpm, biome, tsc |
| Terraform | scaffold-terraform |
terraform, AWS OIDC |
Always generate the standard files below first, then apply the language-specific scaffold.
Standard Files (Every Project)
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
README.md |
Human-facing documentation (see write-readme) |
AGENTS.md |
AI-facing project context (see configure-ai) |
LICENSE |
Apache-2.0 (standard for all repos) |
CONTRIBUTING.md |
How to contribute (see template below) |
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md |
Contributor Covenant 2.1 (see community-health) |
SECURITY.md |
Vulnerability reporting policy (see community-health) |
.github/pull_request_template.md |
Standard PR template (see community-health) |
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/ |
Bug report + feature request forms + config (see community-health) |
sr.yaml |
Semantic release config |
.envrc |
direnv config (per-language layout, env vars, dotenv) |
llms.txt |
LLM-friendly project summary (see create-llms-txt) |
skills/<name>/SKILL.md |
Agent skill instructions |
docs/ |
Project documentation (guides/, rfcs/, plans/, runbooks/, etc.) |
.ai-memory/ |
Tool-agnostic AI memory (see memory skill) |
.github/workflows/ci.yml |
Quality gate |
.github/workflows/release.yml |
Automated releases |
teasr.toml |
Demo recording config (optional -- add for CLIs/visual output; see style-brand) |
showcase/ |
Demo assets: demo.gif, demo.png, feature captures (optional -- add with teasr.toml) |
examples/ |
Runnable example code (optional -- add for libraries/SDKs/configurable tools) |
spec/ |
API specifications (optional -- add when project exposes/consumes a formal API) |
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 · 227 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A 3f016a4f93cc
scaffold-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository urmzd/dotfiles (4 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 2,528 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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