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project-bootstrap from jerseycheese/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add jerseycheese/agent-skills/project-bootstrap@git:20261016.04e815b

Pins git:20261016.04e815b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: jerseycheese/agent-skills
Path: skills/project-bootstrap/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261016.04e815b, committed Oct 16, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 28, 2026
Size: 5,001 bytes
Repository stars: 3
License: MIT

Stamps a project under ~/Projects with the standard agent scaffolding from the starter kit: a house-template CLAUDE.md, core config, an optional stack layer, and a row in the root map. Use for a new repo or one missing its CLAUDE.md. Trigger on: "bootstrap this project", "new project setup", "stamp a CLAUDE.md", "set up agent scaffolding".

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Project Bootstrap

## Purpose

Every repo should hand an agent the same things up front: what it is, how to run it, how to test it, and what not to break. This skill stamps that scaffolding from one source of truth - the starter kit - so cold sessions (and cheaper models) execute instead of rediscovering. The CLAUDE.md is the deliverable; it gets smoke-tested before it counts.

## The starter kit (single source of truth)

All scaffolding lives at `~/Projects/shared/Development/templates/starter-kit/`. Never re-author these files inline - copy them from the kit and fill the placeholders.

- `core/` - stamped into every project, any stack:
  - `CLAUDE.md.template`, `README.md.template` - filled with judgment from recon
  - `.editorconfig`, `.gitignore` - copied verbatim
  - `.claude/settings.json` - copied verbatim (committed canon: minimal safe permissions)
  - `.claude/settings.local.json.template` - copied to `settings.local.json`, adjusted to stack; only if absent
  - `.claude/launch.json.template` - filled with dev command + port
  - `scripts/worktree-port.cjs` - copied verbatim (stable per-worktree dev port)
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add jerseycheese/agent-skills/project-bootstrap@sha256:fbd357e1cf50af8f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.04e815b, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ogkrmfudiv36ff22.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ogkrmfudiv36ff22)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 28, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 110 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261016.04e815b latest	2026-10-16	04e815b	5,001 B	A	view · diff
git:20260628.9366aee	2026-06-28	9366aee	5,237 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5001 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

jerseycheese/agent-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ogkrmfudiv36ff22
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jerseycheese/agent-skills/project-bootstrap
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fbd357e1cf50af8f1e06b42414dcb9c01d544c12bd5b88d04e51a10bb904ea62

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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