init

name	init
description	Initializes Agent Skills in a project by checking prerequisites and verifying the validator configuration. Use when the user says "init", "set up agent-skills", or "initialize agent-skills".

Init

Set up Agent Skills in the current project. This skill is idempotent — safe to re-run.

Announce at start: "Initializing Agent Skills in this project."

Steps

1. Check Prerequisites

Check that the Agent Validator CLI is installed. If missing, tell the user what to install and stop.

• agent-validator — run agent-validator --version.
  • If not found: "Agent Validator CLI is required. Install with npm install -g agent-validator, then run agent-validator init in your project, then re-run /codagent:init."
  • If found, extract the version number and verify it is ≥ 0.15. If too old: "agent-validator 0.15 or higher is required (found <version>). Upgrade with npm install -g agent-validator@latest, then re-run /codagent:init."

Use this shell snippet to compare versions:

version_gte() { [ "$(printf '%s\n' "$2" "$1" | sort -V | head -1)" = "$2" ]; }

Example: version_gte "$installed_version" "0.15" returns true if $installed_version ≥ 0.15.

If the CLI is missing or out of date, stop. The user must resolve it first, then resume /codagent:init.

Validator config (check after CLI passes):

• .validator/config.yml must exist. If not found: "Validator config not found. Run agent-validator init in your project first, then re-run /codagent:init." Stop.

2. Print Success

Print a summary:

Agent Skills initialized successfully.

Available skills:
- /codagent:propose — evaluate an idea and write a proposal
- /codagent:spec — interview-driven requirement discovery
- /codagent:design — brainstorm architecture and write a design doc
- /codagent:plan-tasks — break a change into scoped task files
- /codagent:implement-and-validate — implement a single task and verify with the validator
- /codagent:finalize-pr — push PR, wait for CI, fix failures

3. Commit

Invoke /agent-validator:validator-commit skip to commit any scaffolding changes. Checks are skipped because init only writes boilerplate.

Guardrails

• Stop on missing or outdated prerequisites — tell user what to install/run and resume with /codagent:init
• Never overwrite .validator/config.yml — only add/update entry points and reviews
• Use the hosting runtime's native mechanism to locate the plugin's root directory