| name | project-init |
| description | Initialize a new managed project to the work-skills contract. Use when creating a new sibling repo or onboarding a repo to the blessed local contract before normal delivery begins. |
Project Init
Use this skill after plan-the-plan when a new managed project must be created
or when an existing repo must be brought into the standard contract.
Read First
../../.specify/memory/constitution.md../../specs/001-work-skills-foundation/contracts/managed-project-contract.md../../specs/001-work-skills-foundation/contracts/local-issue-store-contract.md../../specs/001-work-skills-foundation/contracts/provenance-ledger-contract.md../../specs/001-work-skills-foundation/contracts/skill-bundle-contract.md
Responsibilities
- define the new project's
project_id, purpose, and initiative linkage
- establish the
.workskills/ contract root
- create the minimum contract files and directories
- declare the default downstream profile
- prepare the repo for Spec Kit planning artifacts
- state what still must be filled manually before the project is delivery-ready
Minimum Output
Produce or define:
.workskills/project.yml.workskills/reference/issues.snapshot.json.workskills/reference/integrity-baseline.json.workskills/reference/provenance.yml.workskills/reference/exceptions/.workskills/reference/qa/.workskills/runtime/- the intended specs root for Spec Kit artifacts
Rules
- Do not treat the project as fully ready until the contract is complete.
- Keep the setup minimal and deterministic.
- If this is a brownfield repo, note which parts are adapted rather than native.
- If the project depends on external sources, create provenance placeholders
immediately so later work cannot ignore attribution.
Handoff
After project-init, the normal sequence is:
project-litegrill-mespeckit-constitutionspeckit-specifyspeckit-planspeckit-tasks
