repo-setup

repo-setup is a skill for Claude Code from vidhunnan/agentic-skills. It costs 129 tokens per session (5,921 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project documentation skill that builds organised tiers for concepts, product requirements, decisions, handoffs, changelogs, and optional project phases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect an existing repository, fit its documentation into a clear structure without renaming existing folders, and register the navigation rules in CLAUDE.md.
Why use it?
It separates what the team believes from what it has actually shipped, helping agents avoid contradictory or outdated instructions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the repo-setup plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect an existing repository, fit its documentation into a clear structure without renaming existing folders, and register the navigation rules in CLAUDE.md.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vidhunnan/agentic-skills/repo-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 vidhunnan/agentic-skills --skill repo-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vidhunnan/agentic-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install repo-setup, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vidhunnan/agentic-skills/repo-setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vidhunnan/agentic-skills/repo-setup.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,921 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 $0.00129 $0.05921
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.02960
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.01184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00592

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8d6e400caba4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

repo-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 12d 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/repo-setup/SKILL.md · 279 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 279 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

repo-setup

Builds a project's context stack: the documentation tiers that let an agent with no memory be briefed on a project. Each tier answers one question a human teammate would ask — what are we trying to build, what are we still deciding, why did we choose that, what actually shipped, where did we leave off — and each one declares how much an agent should trust it.

The anchor rule the whole stack exists to enforce is done vs. explored: changelog/ is what shipped (truth, past tense, generated from git); everything under docs/ is what we thought (hypothesis, hand-written, disposable). Mix them and you have handed a teammate contradictory instructions — a human pushes back, an agent just agrees, confidently, in both directions.

Two principles govern every step:

  • Detect, map, confirm — never impose. If the repo already calls it docs/adr/, then the decisions tier is docs/adr/. Canon fills gaps; it does not rename anyone's repo.
  • Additive only. Never move, rename, delete, or overwrite. Every write is a file that did not exist. If the right answer requires moving files, say so and let the human do it.

The canon

Used only to fill gaps — an existing path always wins (see Step 1).

Tier Canonical path Question it answers Status
Concepts docs/concepts/ What are we even trying to build? hypothesis — future tense, disposable
PRDs docs/prds/ What are we still deciding? proposal — a concept worth building
Decisions docs/decisions/ Why did we choose that? truth — past tense, append-only
Handoffs docs/handoffs/ Where did we leave off? snapshot — the latest one wins
Changelog changelog/ What actually shipped? TRUTH — generated from git
Phases (opt-in) docs/phases/ What's the plan to build it? plan — gated by an exit checklist

changelog/ sits outside docs/ deliberately: docs/ is hand-written hypothesis, changelog/ is generated truth. The folder layout is the done-vs-explored rule.

Read the full file on GitHub · 279 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 279 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 8d6e400caba4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

repo-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository vidhunnan/agentic-skills (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 5,921 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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