Bare-Metal Startup

Bare-Metal Startup is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by mohitmishra786 in low-level-dev-skills.

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Install Bare-Metal Startup

Copy Bare-Metal Startup into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills/tree/main/skills/baremetal/baremetal-startup ~/.claude/skills/baremetal-startup

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/baremetal/baremetal-startup/SKILL.md in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/baremetal-startup
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 973 skills

What Bare-Metal Startup does

Bare-Metal Startup guides reset-to-main bring-up for embedded targets. Use it for vector tables, .data/.bss initialization, stack setup, VTOR relocation, and crt0 startup code on Cortex-M or RISC-V.

Bare-Metal Startup is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Bare-Metal Startup comes from a repository tagged ai-agent-skills, build-systems, c-cpp-toolchain, compilers and cross-compilation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Guide agents through bare-metal startup from reset to main(): reset and exception vectors, .data/.bss initialization, stack and heap setup, C runtime integration with linker scripts, and common Cortex-M and RISC-V bring-up bugs.

When to Use

Firmware hangs before reaching main()
Porting to a new MCU without vendor HAL
Writing custom startup.s or Reset_Handler
Integrating with skills/embedded/linker-scripts
Debugging uninitialized globals or stack overflows at boot

Workflow

1. Boot sequence mental model

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Bare-Metal Startup provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/baremetal-startup

Frequently asked about Bare-Metal Startup

What else does mohitmishra786 publish alongside Bare-Metal Startup?
Bare-Metal Startup is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ADC And DAC Bare Metal, AF XDP and Bazel. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Bare-Metal Startup does, and is maintained by mohitmishra786 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills page.
How does Bare-Metal Startup compare to other DevOps skills?
Bare-Metal Startup ranks #886 by stars among the 973 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Bare-Metal Startup against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.