setup

setup is a skill for Claude Code from zircote-plugins/sdlc-quality. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,874 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Project-setup instructions for creating repositories with a standard structure, build system, CI pipeline, quality checks, security scanning, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when initializing a project, creating its folders and required files, configuring GitHub Actions, adding formatters and linters, or documenting contribution rules.
Why use it?
They provide a repeatable starting point so new projects include essential development and delivery practices from the beginning.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the sdlc plugin — 10 skills, 5 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use them when initializing a project, creating its folders and required files, configuring GitHub Actions, adding formatters and linters, or documenting contribution rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zircote-plugins/sdlc-quality/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 zircote-plugins/sdlc-quality --skill setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote-plugins/sdlc-quality

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 5 commands, 1 hook.

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,874 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 $0.00064 $0.01874
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00750
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00375
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00187

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2ad0aa15d79a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

.github/skills/setup/SKILL.md · 344 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 344 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Setup Standards

Guidance for initializing new projects that comply with all SDLC requirements from the start.

Tooling

Available Tools: If using Claude Code with the sdlc plugin, run /sdlc:init to bootstrap a compliant project structure. The /sdlc:check command validates existing projects.

Project Initialization

Required Steps (MUST)

New projects MUST complete these setup steps:

Order Step Purpose
1 Create repository Initialize Git with main branch
2 Add standard files LICENSE, README, etc.
3 Configure build system Makefile with standard targets
4 Set up CI pipeline GitHub Actions workflow
5 Configure quality tools Formatter, linter, etc.
6 Add security scanning Dependency audit, secrets scan
7 Create documentation README, CONTRIBUTING, etc.

Repository Initialization

# Initialize repository
git init
git branch -M main

# Create standard directory structure
mkdir -p src tests docs .github/workflows

# Initialize with empty commit
git commit --allow-empty -m "chore: initialize repository"

Required Files

Mandatory Files (MUST)

Every project MUST include:

File Purpose Template
README.md Project overview See docs skill
LICENSE License terms MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.
CONTRIBUTING.md Contributor guide See docs skill
CHANGELOG.md Version history Keep a Changelog
SECURITY.md Security policy See security skill
.gitignore Git exclusions Language-specific
.gitattributes Git attributes See vcs skill
Makefile Build commands See build skill

Read the full file on GitHub · 344 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. 1mo ago First seen · 344 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 2ad0aa15d79a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository zircote-plugins/sdlc-quality (11 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,874 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.