init

init is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from whit3rabbit/clean-room-skill. It costs 32 tokens per session (2,294 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup step for Clean Room runs that records preferences and rules before source analysis begins. It creates configuration and initialization records for the run.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to confirm the run’s end goal and destination stack, define policies and constraints, record unanswered questions, and prepare the configuration needed to start or resume a Clean Room run.
Why use it?
It prevents important choices about the goal, target technology, licenses, dependencies, compatibility, and output from being guessed from the source project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the clean-room plugin — 10 skills, 7 agents shipped together

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/whit3rabbit/clean-room-skill/init
Any agent
npx skills add whit3rabbit/clean-room-skill --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whit3rabbit/clean-room-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install clean-room, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 7 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for init

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,294 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 $0.00032 $0.02294
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01147
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00459
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00229

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0df3540a5363, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 4d 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/init/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clean Room Init

Overview

Initialize or revise durable Clean Room run preferences before source analysis starts. The output is an init-config.json controller artifact and an initialization_snapshot copied into each new task-manifest.json.

Preflight Goal Contract

Before creating active artifacts, collect or confirm preflight-goal.json. Do not start attended or unattended execution until the goal contract records end goal, target stack, license policy, dependency policy, compatibility/exactness policy, feature add/remove policy, code hygiene limits, output policy, existing destination policy, and controller mode. Completed preflight inputs and unattended contracts must also record intent_confirmation proving the end goal, target stack, and controller mode came from explicit user answers.

Do not infer the user's end goal or target stack from the source repository. A source stack is not a destination stack; ports and rewrites often intentionally change language, runtime, framework, package manager, and test framework. If end goal or target stack is unknown, leave blocking open_questions, keep controller_policy.unattended_allowed_after_preflight false, and do not write runner-ready task-manifest.json or clean-run-context.json.

Keep preflight-goal.json in the controller/contaminated artifact domain. Clean roles receive only the clean-safe goal_contract subset, code_hygiene_policy, and optional Agent 4 local commit policy through clean-run-context.json.

The safest path for canonical artifacts is the generated CLI schema/template path. Use clean-room-skill preflight --template or clean-room-skill preflight --input for preflight, and use clean-room-skill artifact template --kind <kind> --output <path> plus clean-room-skill artifact validate --path <path> for other canonical artifacts. Do not hand-write task-manifest.json or clean-run-context.json from scratch; start from CLI generators, CLI templates, or existing schema-valid artifacts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 4d ago First seen · 70 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 0df3540a5363

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init is a skill published in the GitHub repository whit3rabbit/clean-room-skill (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,294 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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