project-setup

project-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vaayne/agent-kit. It costs 199 tokens per session (1,670 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository setup and audit guide that applies a shared development baseline to new or existing projects. A repository is the folder and history containing a project's code, tools, tests, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install or audit agent instructions, development tools, formatting and test rules, documentation structure, GitHub workflows, CI, and PostgreSQL-related project conventions.
Why use it?
It prevents setup work from becoming inconsistent across projects and separates inspecting an existing repository from actually changing it. It also preserves an existing project's established tools unless a migration is requested.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to install or audit agent instructions, development tools, formatting and test rules, documentation structure, GitHub workflows, CI, and PostgreSQL-related project conventions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vaayne/agent-kit/project-setup
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 vaayne/agent-kit --skill project-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vaayne/agent-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 199 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,670 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00199 $0.01670
Opus 5.5 $0.00080 $0.00668
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00167

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1af0d1adfdc7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-setup 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 8d 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/project-setup/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project setup

Apply one baseline to every repository, then add the rules for each stack the repository uses. The target repository owns the result: it pins its own tool versions and installs its own skills. This skill only says what to install and where to get it.

Modes

  • Setup applies the baseline to a new repository, or to an existing one when the user asks for the change.
  • Audit reports the differences between the repository and the baseline, with file references and a proposed change for each. An audit does not install, generate, format, or move files.

State the mode before you start. If the request is not clear, run an audit.

New and existing repositories

The stack choices in this skill (Vite+, TypeScript 7, TanStack Query, Effect, golangci-lint, PostgreSQL) are defaults for new projects. In an existing repository, keep the established stack, package manager, and documentation layout. Report a stack migration as a proposal; do it only when the user puts it in scope. Read the ADRs and data-ownership rules before you interpret leftover configuration.

Procedure

  1. Inspect. Read the existing agent instructions, git status, and the manifests (package.json, go.mod, mise.toml, prek.toml, dprint.json). Identify the stacks. Record any user edits in the working tree and preserve them.

    Complete when you know the stacks and which baseline parts already exist.

  2. Lay out instructions. Follow layout. Create the root AGENTS.md index and the .agents/rules/ files. Keep existing rules that still apply; move them into the matching rule file.

  3. Install the common tooling and rules. Follow these for every repository:

    • tooling: mise and .mise/tasks, prek, dprint, documd, and e2e.
    • testing: test policy, tiers, coverage, and enforcement.
    • documentation: document layout, figures, and Fumadocs for public docs.
    • github: commits, issues, PRs, CI, and Dependabot.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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. 8d ago First seen · 145 lines · 199 tokens per session scan A 1af0d1adfdc7

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project-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository vaayne/agent-kit (53 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 199 tokens to every session and 1,670 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-10-13.