Grace Init

Grace Init is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by osovv in grace-marketplace.

239 stars54 forkson osovv/grace-marketplaceAdded 2026/09/03Repository updated 2026/08/29

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Install Grace Init

Copy Grace Init into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/osovv/grace-marketplace/tree/main/skills/grace/grace-init ~/.claude/skills/grace-init

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/osovv/grace-marketplace.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/grace/grace-init/SKILL.md in osovv/grace-marketplace
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/grace-init
Collection: One of 15 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2793 skills

What Grace Init does

Grace Init bootstraps a GRACE 4 project by creating the canonical .grace context, graph, verification, and changes folders from templates. Use it when starting a new project or setting up GRACE artifacts for the first time.

Grace Init is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Grace Init comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-code-generation, ai-engineering, autonomous-agents and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

AGENTS.md
.grace/context/requirements.xml
.grace/context/technology.xml
.grace/context/principles.xml
.grace/context/deployment.xml
.grace/context/ux-guidelines.xml
.grace/graph/index.xml
.grace/graph/main.xml
.grace/verification/index.xml
.grace/verification/main.xml
.grace/changes/active/
.grace/changes/archive/

Every XML artifact uses graceVersion="4.0". Semantic anchors are XML tags, never attributes. Do not create dummy C-* change bundles. Do not overwrite existing .grace artifacts without explicit confirmation.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Grace Init

What else does osovv publish alongside Grace Init?
Grace Init is one of 15 skills that DirSkills catalogs from osovv/grace-marketplace, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Grace Ask, Grace CLI and Grace Execute. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Grace Init does, and is maintained by osovv in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the osovv/grace-marketplace page.
How does Grace Init compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Grace Init ranks #2425 by stars among the 2793 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Grace Init against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.