Init Project

Init Project is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by UfoMiao in zcf.

6.1K stars424 forkson UfoMiao/zcfAdded 2026/08/15Repository updated 2026/08/12

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Install Init Project

Copy Init Project 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/UfoMiao/zcf/tree/main/templates/skills/en/init-project ~/.claude/skills/init-project

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/UfoMiao/zcf.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: templates/skills/en/init-project/SKILL.md in UfoMiao/zcf
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/init-project
Collection: One of 20 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Init Project does

Init Project scans a repository and generates root-level and module-level CLAUDE.md files with vision, architecture overviews, module indexes, and Mermaid diagrams. Use it to initialize or incrementally update project context so Claude Code can navigate and understand a codebase.

Init Project is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Init Project comes from a repository tagged agent, ai, ai-agent, bmad-method and ccr.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Usage

/init-project <PROJECT_SUMMARY_OR_NAME>

Objective

Initialize project AI context using a mixed strategy of "concise at root + detailed at module level":

Generate/update CLAUDE.md at repository root (high-level vision, architecture overview, module index, global standards).
Generate/update local CLAUDE.md in identified module directories (interfaces, dependencies, entry points, tests, key files, etc.).
✨ For improved readability, automatically generate Mermaid structure diagrams in the root CLAUDE.md and add navigation breadcrumbs to each module CLAUDE.md.

Orchestration Instructions

Step 1: Call the get-current-datetime sub-agent to obtain the current timestamp.

Step 2: Call the init-architect sub-agent once, with input:

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

Commands Init Project provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/init-project

Frequently asked about Init Project

What else does UfoMiao publish alongside Init Project?
Init Project is one of 20 skills that DirSkills catalogs from UfoMiao/zcf, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include BMad Init, BMad Init and Feature Development. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Init Project does, and is maintained by UfoMiao in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the UfoMiao/zcf page.
How does Init Project compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Init Project ranks #447 by stars among the 2451 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 Init Project against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.