scaffold-project

A project setup guide that creates common files, documentation rules, and a standard folder structure, then applies setup for the project's programming language. It covers Rust, Go, Python, Node or TypeScript, and Terraform.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting or standardizing a project, including its README, AI guidance, licence, contribution rules, security policy, environment setup, and language-specific development tools.
Why use it?
It gives projects a predictable starting point that is easier for new developers and coding agents to understand. It also reduces the need to decide basic documentation, security, contribution, and tooling conventions from scratch.

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/urmzd/dotfiles/scaffold-project
Any agent
npx skills add urmzd/dotfiles --skill scaffold-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/urmzd/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,528 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 $0.00137 $0.02528
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01264
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00506
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00253

Measured yesterday against content hash 3f016a4f93cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 yesterday.

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/scaffold-project/SKILL.md · 227 lines

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)

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 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. yesterday First seen · 227 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A 3f016a4f93cc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scaffold-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository urmzd/dotfiles (3 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 2,528 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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