Initialize or inspect a project, maintain sourced current facts and record durable decisions.

MITAuto-check: notes

Install Project

skills CLI
$ npx skills add AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects --skill project -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects project --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/project .claude/skills/project && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
project
GitHub stars
373
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
691 words
Files
13 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
60
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Initialize or inspect a project, maintain sourced current facts and record durable decisions.

  • Project context
  • SKILL.md covers Before changing records, Fresh setup, Facts and decisions and Vocabularies
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Remember-this requests

What it does

Project is an agent skill from AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects. Initialize or inspect a project, maintain sourced current facts and record durable decisions. Use for project context or remember-this requests; other record types retain their owners.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 14 other files, including reference files (for example `README.md`, `host-contract.json` and `references/context-resolution.md`).

The repository describes itself as: Claude Code skills for architecture, real estate, and workplace strategy. Type /skill-name and go. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Project context
  • Remember-this requests
  • Other record types retain their owners

Example prompts

  • “/project”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Bash, AskUserQuestion

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 657bfd5. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Write
    • Edit
    • Glob
    • Grep
    • Bash
    • AskUserQuestion

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Project loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 48 tokens; SKILL.md has 691 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~48
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

  • NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
    allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Bash, AskUserQuestion

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects at commit 657bfd5, republished under its MIT licence (© AlpacaLabsLLC). 691 words, ~1,489 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/project/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 12 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
project
description
Initialize or inspect a project, maintain sourced current facts and record durable decisions. Use for project context or remember-this requests; other record types retain their owners.
allowed-tools
Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Bash, AskUserQuestion

/as:project

Before acting, read the host contract, this component's declaration (skill:project), and applicable workspace semantics. Load only the required modes from the shared catalog.

<!-- architecture-studio:harness-compatibility -->

Use the host adapter for native invocation. Apply the native workspace operations with the host’s own tools and ordinary task-specific code. Operation names identify semantic scope, not function calls or a dispatcher. No Arch Studio runner, executable download or reconstructed helper is required. Resolve canonical context before existing-workspace edits; fresh setup validates its explicit target and ancestor boundary instead. Existing exact authorization persists; ask only for material missing information or missing permission.

Own PROJECT.md current facts and documents of kind decision. The agreement skill owns only its bounded Agreement section in PROJECT.md; studio owns synchronized registered status. Decision reasoning is not duplicated into the fact manifest.

Before changing records

Before persistent changes, follow the native mutation sequence: Inspect → Prepare → Verify preparation → Apply → Verify result → Complete. Inspect pending work first. Finish and verify preparation before the first canonical write: separately reread every saved original and prepared file, check its complete actual bytes, establish durable saving, and inspect actual permissions, ownership and ACLs. Merely writing recovery files does not finish verification. Apply only that verified set. Mark complete only after fresh readback validates the entire affected result and its relationships. Read-only requests and inline drafts need no publication sequence.

Fresh setup prepares the entire declared project tree with retained identities. A fact edit affects PROJECT.md only. A decision registration affects the complete decision document plus DOCUMENTS.csv. Used-vocabulary renames include the manifest, every relocated document/referring file and its register changes; determine the complete set before applying any part. Studio-owned synchronized status includes both manifests.

Fresh setup

Use project.init after confirming the exact target, immutable Project ID, display name, Type, advisory Kind/Status, client/code and Created date. Display name and Folder ID are distinct from Project ID. Ask for the firm's phases, scopes, originators and applicable stage vocabulary; defaults are proposals, not external normative codes. Standalone projects carry their template/stages in PROJECT.md; registered projects use STUDIO.md's template/stages. A valid standalone project remains valid and does not require studio creation.

The new shape is Format version 3, Document model 1. Preview the exact generated files; setup creates PROJECT.md, empty CSV registers, host instructions/skill roots and immutable folder identity, with no prose scaffold folders. It does not initialize Git, accounts or storage. No old-format converter exists. Existing live workspaces are not silently transformed. Inside a studio, studio orchestrates initialization and registration without recursive routing.

project.status reports identity and document verification; statuses and project Kind are advisory, not permission gates. Follow the receive-owned native document verification specification for the document findings; a missing capability is reported separately from observed identity. Use documents.query for decisions and dated records, tasks.list for actions and invoice.status for ledger facts. Do not infer complete state from missing/unreadable evidence.

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Facts and decisions

For project.facts (remember/update), distinguish sourced facts, choices and unresolved information. Preview each destination and preserve provenance/date. Record only confirmed changes. Approval to save a source does not approve promoting all its statements.

For project.decision (record-decision), capture one choice, context, actual options, deciders, proposed/decided status, rationale, consequences and exact sources. Allocate the next permanent decision number from registered decision records, without renumbering or reusing historical IDs. Prepare the authored Markdown with the bundled decision template; resolve its confirmed coordinates and register via documents.register, kind decision. Preserve unknowns and proposal status.

For supersession, receive a new decision document with supersedes referencing the original ID; preserve original bytes/history. Do not infer supersession from a later date alone. Query kind decision for listing; there is no separate path-based decision index.

Vocabularies

project.vocab lists/adds/renames project phase, scope or originator values. Confirm unknown values; never invent them. A used value requires coordinated placement/link updates rather than an in-place manifest rename. Stage vocabulary belongs to studio (or the standalone manifest). An explicit request may create an empty phase folder; ordinary vocabulary edits do not precreate content directories.

Tasks, time, invoices, minutes, site reports and plans retain their corresponding owners. Use stable registered document IDs plus item anchors for provenance. Every durable mutation is read back; raw conversation is not archived merely because a fact/decision is saved.

© AlpacaLabsLLC, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 12 other files (references) in skills/project of AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects.

  • SKILL.md
  • README.md
  • host-contract.json
  • references/context-resolution.md
  • templates/AGENTS.md
  • templates/CHANGES.csv
  • templates/CLAUDE.md
  • templates/DOCUMENTS.csv
  • templates/INVOICES.csv
  • templates/PROJECT.md
  • templates/TASKS.csv
  • templates/TIME.csv
  • templates/decision.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 657bfd5

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Questions about Project

What does Project do?

Initialize or inspect a project, maintain sourced current facts and record durable decisions. Project is an agent skill from AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects. Initialize or inspect a project, maintain sourced current facts and record durable decisions.

When should I use Project?

Project fits situations like: project context; remember-this requests; other record types retain their owners.

How do I install Project in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects --skill project -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/project in AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects) into .claude/skills/project in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Project in Codex?

Run `npx skills add AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects --skill project -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/project in AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects) into .agents/skills/project in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Project in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects --skill project -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/project, .gemini/skills/project, .github/skills/project and .opencode/skills/project in your project.

What does Project need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Project is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Bash, AskUserQuestion.

Does Project access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Project safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Project use?

Project is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Project use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.1k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Project?

AlpacaLabsLLC (a GitHub organization) maintains it in AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects, which has 373 GitHub stars. The repository holds 60 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.