setup

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 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/zircote-plugins/sdlc-quality/setup
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, Codex.

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. 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 $0.00064 $0.01874
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00937
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00375
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00187

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2ad0aa15d79a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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. 2d 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 (10 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,874 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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