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ai-first-toolkit

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A skills pack that audits, re-engineers, and bootstraps projects following AI-first design principles.

ai-first-toolkit is a multi-skill bundle for Claude Code and Codex that looks at your project through an AI-first lens: is the codebase easy for an agent to navigate, edit, and reason about? It includes skills for AI-readiness audits, refactoring toward clear structure, and bootstrapping new projects with the right scaffolding from day one.

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Install

Author repository · Claude Skills documentation

Use Cases

Real-world ways to use ai-first-toolkit

How to audit a codebase for AI-agent readiness

👤 Tech leads preparing a codebase for heavy AI-assisted work ⏱ ~45 min intermediate

When to use: Before the team commits to doing a lot of feature work through Claude or Codex.

Flow
  1. Run the audit
    Audit this repo for AI-agent readiness. Score each dimension and list the top 5 friction points.✓ Copied
    → Dimension scores + specific files to fix
  2. Prioritize fixes
    Which of those fixes would give the biggest agent-effectiveness lift per hour of work?✓ Copied
    → Ranked list with effort/impact
  3. Apply the top fix
    Apply fix #1 end-to-end — edit files, update docs, add tests.✓ Copied
    → Diff + confirmation

Outcome: A concrete improvement plan and at least one applied fix making the repo friendlier to AI agents.

Pitfalls
  • Audit turns into a generic 'improve docs' blob — Ask for file:line level findings, not abstract advice
Combine with: filesystem · github

Bootstrap a new AI-friendly project

👤 Founders or ICs starting a new repo ⏱ ~30 min beginner

When to use: Day zero of a new project, before you pick bad defaults that will haunt you.

Flow
  1. State the project
    Bootstrap a new TypeScript API project using ai-first-toolkit defaults. Purpose: internal billing API.✓ Copied
    → Proposed folder structure, tsconfig, scripts, README skeleton
  2. Scaffold the files
    Create the files. Include AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md with the relevant codebase notes.✓ Copied
    → Repo files materialized
  3. First commit
    Initialize git and make the first commit with a clean message.✓ Copied
    → Clean initial repo

Outcome: A new repo that's friendly to both humans and AI agents from commit 0.

Pitfalls
  • Scaffolding imports dependencies you don't want — Ask Claude to list dependencies before installing — accept each one
Combine with: github · filesystem

Re-engineer a messy module for AI readability

👤 Engineers paying down tech debt one module at a time ⏱ ~60 min advanced

When to use: You've isolated a module that Claude keeps getting wrong — usually a sign its structure isn't agent-legible.

Flow
  1. Diagnose the module
    Look at src/billing/. What about this code makes it hard for an agent to edit safely?✓ Copied
    → Specific red flags: indirection, hidden state, long functions
  2. Plan the refactor
    Propose a 3-step refactor that improves agent-legibility without changing public API.✓ Copied
    → Stepwise plan with diff sketches
  3. Execute step 1
    Apply step 1. Keep tests green.✓ Copied
    → PR-sized diff

Outcome: A module that Claude can actually reason about on the next iteration.

Pitfalls
  • Over-refactor and break behaviors you didn't mean to — Insist on public API stability and run tests after each step
Combine with: filesystem · github

Combinations

Pair with other MCPs for X10 leverage

ai-first-toolkit-skill + filesystem

Audit scans the repo; filesystem is needed to actually read it

Walk the repo and score AI-readiness; report findings file-by-file.✓ Copied
ai-first-toolkit-skill + github

Open a PR with the proposed AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md additions

Apply the audit's top 3 fixes and open a PR titled 'AI-first improvements'.✓ Copied

Tools

What this MCP exposes

ToolInputsWhen to callCost
ai-readiness-audit repo root Pre-investment in AI-heavy workflows 0
ai-first-bootstrap project spec (lang, purpose, stack) Greenfield projects 0
re-engineer-module module path + goals When a module resists agent edits 0

Cost & Limits

What this costs to run

API quota
none beyond your LLM provider
Tokens per call
5–20k for an audit of a medium repo
Monetary
free, open source
Tip
Scope audits to a subtree rather than the whole monorepo

Security

Permissions, secrets, blast radius

Credential storage: none
Data egress: none beyond what filesystem/github tools do

Troubleshooting

Common errors and fixes

Audit is too abstract

Re-prompt with a concrete dimension: 'evaluate just the test layout' or 'just the module boundaries'.

Bootstrap picks wrong language

Always state language+runtime+build tool in the first prompt.

Alternatives

ai-first-toolkit vs others

AlternativeWhen to use it insteadTradeoff
init (built-in)You just need a CLAUDE.md and don't care about the restNarrower scope
antivibe-skillYou want the opposite lens — critique of AI-shaped sludgeDiagnostic, not prescriptive

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