new-project

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name: new-project description: Scaffold a new Claude Code project as a sibling of the orchestrator repo. Use when the operator says "new project ", "start a project called X", "spin up X", "scaffold X", or anything equivalent. All projects scaffold with the team template (PM + specialist agents) and auto-launch the PM in tmux. Accepts an optional --profile mvp|work to layer a config overlay on top of the base team template (default: mvp). Use --profile work for paid-client projects that need tighter permissions and work-only MCP connectors (HubSpot, GitHub, ClickUp, Figma).

new-project

Create a new Claude Code project as a sibling directory of the orchestrator repo. Every project uses the team template — PM + specialist agents, outbox relay, the whole setup. There is no single-session option.

Inputs

• <name> — project directory name (slug-style, no spaces)
• --profile <mvp|work> — optional config overlay (default: mvp)
  • mvp — loose defaults: --dangerously-skip-permissions, all account connectors blocked via --strict-mcp-config, permissive Bash/MCP allowlist. Right for personal/experimental projects.
  • work — tightened defaults: --permission-mode auto (Claude self-vets each tool call, auto-approving safe ones and blocking risky ones), strict-mcp dropped so work connectors load (HubSpot/GitHub/ClickUp/Figma), personal connectors (Telegram/Notion/Gmail/Drive/Calendar/Supabase/Netlify/lilo-tools/computer-use/picarx) explicitly denied, git push / npm publish / destructive ops on the deny list, ssh/scp/rsync denied. Right for paid-client work.

If the operator describes the project context but doesn't name a profile, infer it: client work → work, anything else → mvp. Confirm with the operator before scaffolding if it's ambiguous.

Steps

Run from the orchestrator repo root, substituting <name> and <profile>:

DEST=../<name>
PROFILE=<profile>   # mvp or work; default mvp
OVERLAY=templates/overlays/$PROFILE

# 1. Base scaffold
mkdir -p "$DEST"
(cd "$DEST" && git init -q)
# Trailing /. copies dotfiles too — do NOT replace with /* or .claude/ is skipped.
cp -R templates/team/. "$DEST"/
# Drop the per-project registry copy — agents/ will symlink to the orchestrator's
# registry in the team-ops launch step (single source of truth).
rm -rf "$DEST"/.claude/agent-registry

# 2. Apply overlay (if the profile has a project/ subtree)
if [ -d "$OVERLAY/project" ]; then
  cp -R "$OVERLAY/project/." "$DEST"/
fi

# 3. Substitute placeholder in every copied file. perl -pi is cross-platform
# (sed -i differs between BSD/macOS and GNU/Linux).
find "$DEST" -type f -not -path '*/.git/*' -exec perl -pi -e "s/\{\{PROJECT_NAME\}\}/<name>/g" {} +

Verify: ls -la ../<name> and confirm .claude/agents/ and CLAUDE.md are present. For work profile, also confirm .claude/settings.json contains the deny list (grep -q '"deny"' "$DEST"/.claude/settings.json && grep -q 'plugin_telegram' "$DEST"/.claude/settings.json).

Then invoke the team-ops skill for the post-scaffold launch steps (inbox/outbox dirs, initial task file, tmux session, PM kickoff). Pass the profile through — team-ops reads templates/overlays/<profile>/launch.flags to assemble the tmux launch command, so the same flags are not hardcoded in two places.

Report back that the project is ready and that the PM is running in the <name> tmux session. If profile is work, additionally remind the operator that they will likely want to set repo-local git config user.email to their work address inside any cloned work repos under the project dir — the PM cannot infer it.