apd-setup

apd-setup is a skill for Claude Code from zstevovich/claude-apd. It costs 118 tokens per session (3,709 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup skill for APD, an agent-based development pipeline, that creates project instructions, agent files, rules, memory, and verification scripts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for initializing APD in a project, maintaining its configuration, and checking setup gaps after major framework changes.
Why use it?
It fills in missing project configuration and checks whether an existing APD setup still matches the project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the claude-apd plugin — 11 skills, 5 agents, 8 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for initializing APD in a project, maintaining its configuration, and checking setup gaps after major framework changes.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add zstevovich/claude-apd
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-apd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-apd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 5 agents, 8 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,709 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 $0.00118 $0.03709
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01854
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00742
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00371

Measured 8d ago against content hash 564a35e0a253, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apd-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/apd-setup/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

APD Setup

Manual-only skill (disable-model-invocation: true). The user invokes it with /apd-setup. CC-only — on Codex use the apd cdx init CLI.

When to use / When to skip

Use when:

  • Setting up APD in a new project for the first time
  • Maintaining an existing APD project (gap analysis fills missing pieces)
  • After a major framework upgrade — gap analysis flags deprecated patterns
  • After manually editing .claude/ and wanting to validate

Skip when:

  • The project is already fully configured and apd-audit is clean — nothing to do
  • You're inside an active pipeline cycle — wait for the cycle to close
  • The project is Codex-only — use apd cdx init CLI instead, this skill writes .claude/ paths

What gets generated (in the project)

File Content
CLAUDE.md Project instructions — generated from user responses
.claude/agents/*.md Agents with scopes and ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} hook paths
.claude/rules/principles.md Rules for the user's stack and language
.claude/scripts/verify-all.sh Build/test commands for the stack
.claude/memory/MEMORY.md Project memory index
.claude/memory/status.md Current status
.claude/memory/session-log.md Session log (empty)
.claude/memory/pipeline-skip-log.md Skip log (empty)
.claude/settings.json Minimal hooks (Notification) + env + attribution
.claude/.apd-config PROJECT_NAME, APD_VERSION, STACK (CC-native activation marker)
.claude/.apd-version APD plugin version

Dual activation paths. APD recognizes two locations for the config file:

  • .claude/.apd-config — CC-native (what this skill generates; used on all CC-enabled projects)
  • .apd/config — runtime-neutral, used on pure-Codex projects that never create .claude/ (auto-seeded by apd cdx init)

The framework reads either; write to whichever matches the host runtime. Hybrid projects work with either.

What does NOT get generated (lives in the plugin)

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 221 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 564a35e0a253

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apd-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository zstevovich/claude-apd (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 3,709 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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