Klaussy Init

Klaussy init

Scaffold AI coding-agent boilerplate for the user's project by running klaussy. By default this covers all eight supported agents — Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Google Antigravity, Cline, and Aider — from a single shared set of conventions.

Steps

1. Confirm klaussy is available. Run klaussy --version. If the command isn't found, install with pipx install klaussy (preferred) or pip install --user klaussy. Re-verify with klaussy --version afterward.

2. Detect the base branch. Klaussy will prompt interactively if not given, which blocks the agent. Pre-detect via git branch --list dev develop main master | head -1 and pass --base-branch <detected>. If none of those exist, fall back to whatever git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD returns, or main.

3. Run klaussy init. Pass through $ARGUMENTS if the user supplied any (e.g. --force, --skip-enrich):

   klaussy init --base-branch <detected> $ARGUMENTS
   

   If .claude/skills/ or ./CLAUDE.md already exists, ask the user whether to pass --force rather than assuming. The migration in klaussy init removes legacy .claude/commands/*.md files only if it owns them (via the .klaussy-version marker) — user-authored commands are left alone.

   Agent targets. By default klaussy scaffolds all eight supported agents — Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Google Antigravity, Cline, and Aider — from the same conventions. Each gets its native conventions file (e.g. CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, AGENTS.md for Codex/Antigravity, .github/copilot-instructions.md, .cursor/rules/, .clinerules/conventions.md, CONVENTIONS.md for Aider), plus the bundled skills in its native skills directory and permissions — except Aider, which is conventions-only (it has no skills or hooks mechanism). To narrow to specific agents, pass --agents claude,gemini (any subset). If the user only uses Claude, suggest --agents claude.

4. Verify output. The paths below are Claude Code's; each other selected agent gets the equivalent in its own dir (.gemini/, .cursor/, .agents/ for Codex, .github/ for Copilot) plus its native conventions file. Confirm these landed:

   • ./CLAUDE.md at the repo root (with project-wide content)
   • .claude/rules/<glob-stem>.md for each path-scoped rule bucket klaussy-repo-conventions detected (zero or more files; some repos won't have any)
   • .claude/skills/<repo>-<skill>/SKILL.md for 16 skills (review, precommit, plan, debug, implement, refactor, test, fix, pr, commit, explain, humanize, new-worktree, adr-generator, security-audit, slop-coded)
   • .claude/settings.json
   • .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md (only if the repo didn't already have one)
   • .gitignore updated with klaussy output exclusions

5. Report. Tell the user which skills were created (point at <repo>-plan and <repo>-review as the high-leverage ones), summarize what's in CLAUDE.md and any .claude/rules/*.md files, and suggest reviewing them before committing.

When NOT to use

• The repo is already klaussified at the same klaussy version — klaussy init will be a near-no-op; suggest the klaussy-update skill instead if the user actually wants to refresh.
• The user wants a different scaffold tool (cookiecutter, an org-internal generator) — klaussy targets Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Antigravity, Cline, and Aider, and may not fit other setups.
• The repo is empty or has no committed code yet — klaussy infers conventions from the existing code; an empty repo gets generic boilerplate that the user may want to defer until there's something to detect from.