| name | askit-init-plugin |
| description | Creates a starting plugin that satisfies the Bronze anatomy and onboards the maintainer, in three modes (interview, questionnaire, hybrid). Use when starting a new plugin from scratch, onboarding a maintainer, or generating a scaffolding questionnaire. |
| metadata | {"version":"0.1.0","tier":"universal","audience":"beginner"} |
askit-init-plugin
Purpose
Onboard a maintainer and scaffold a starting point that is gradeable from the first commit. Three modes: interview runs a live conversational Q&A, then scaffolds; questionnaire emits the structured onboarding template (with per-section maintainer-feedback and agent-response blocks) for the maintainer to fill async, then processes it; hybrid pre-fills that questionnaire with suggestions from chat context, still leaving the feedback blocks. All three scaffold the Bronze seed anatomy from templates/seed-plugin/ (library.json with the five required fields + AGENTS.md + README/CHANGELOG starters) so the new plugin passes the conformance core immediately. Mode and anatomy detail are in references/onboarding-modes.md.
When to use
When starting a brand-new plugin from scratch, onboarding a maintainer, or generating a scaffolding questionnaire. (To adopt an EXISTING repo instead, use askit-migrate.)
interview mode
- Ask the maintainer the onboarding questions live (theme/scope, target agents, target tier, first components).
- Synthesize a starting config and scaffold from
templates/seed-plugin/, filling library.json name/description and AGENTS.md.
- Hand off:
askit-build-skill for the first skill, askit-build-docs for docs, askit-evaluate to confirm Bronze.
questionnaire mode
- Emit
templates/onboarding-questionnaire.template.md for the maintainer to fill async.
- On return, process the maintainer-feedback blocks into a config and scaffold as above.
hybrid mode
- From chat context, emit a tailored questionnaire pre-filled with suggested answers (keeping the feedback blocks).
- Process the returned, corrected questionnaire and scaffold.
Scope
The seed scaffold is the minimal Bronze anatomy (the structural match the asserted test enforces, ADR 0023, not a byte-exact diff): it passes every Universal check with 0 errors. The richer surfaces (a real README via askit-build-docs, CHANGELOG via askit-release, ADRs via askit-decision, backlogs via askit-backlog) are scaffolded by their own skills, so init composes the toolkit rather than duplicating it. Marketplace scaffolding is askit-init-marketplace.
