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Agent skill

Team Init

by tikalk in tikalk/adlc-team-skills

A skill your agent uses when bootstrapping team knowledge from a brownfield codebase — reverse-engineers CDRs for contribution to team-ai-directives adlc branch.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Team Init

skills CLI
$ npx skills add tikalk/adlc-team-skills --skill team-init -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install tikalk/adlc-team-skills team-init --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/tikalk/adlc-team-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/team/team-init .claude/skills/team-init && 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
team-init
GitHub stars
141
Token cost
~534 tokens
SKILL.md length
212 words
Files
2 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
44
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when bootstrapping team knowledge from a brownfield codebase — reverse-engineers CDRs for contribution to team-ai-directives adlc branch.

  • Works in 6 steps: Environment Setup → Sub-System Detection → Load Team Directives → …
  • Bootstrapping team knowledge from a brownfield codebase — reverse-engineers CDRs for contribution to team-ai-directives adlc branch
  • SKILL.md covers What this skill does, When to use, Process and Verification
  • Runs Shell scripts from its folder

What it does

Team Init is an agent skill from tikalk/adlc-team-skills. Use when bootstrapping team knowledge from a brownfield codebase — reverse-engineers CDRs for contribution to team-ai-directives adlc branch.

Its SKILL.md is about 530 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/team-init.sh`).

It sits in Development. The repository describes itself as: Agent skills for the Agentic SDLC: team lifecycle (team-boot, team-learn, team-init, team-repair), software factory, evals, CDR lifecycle with confidence scoring, and… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Bootstrapping team knowledge from a brownfield codebase — reverse-engineers CDRs for contribution to team-ai-directives adlc branch

Example prompts

  • “/team-init”

Requirements

  • A Bash shell

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Environment Setup
  2. Sub-System Detection
  3. Load Team Directives
  4. Multi-Agent Analysis
  5. Write CDRs
  6. Handoff

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2dbed36. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Shell), which the agent can run.

    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

Team Init loads about 534 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 38 tokens; SKILL.md has 212 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~38
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~534

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 passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from tikalk/adlc-team-skills at commit 2dbed36, republished under its MIT licence (© tikalk). 212 words, ~534 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/team-init/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
team-init
description
Use when bootstrapping team knowledge from a brownfield codebase — reverse-engineers CDRs for contribution to team-ai-directives adlc branch.
disable-model-invocation
true
scripts.sh
scripts/team-init.sh
scripts.ps
scripts/team-init.ps1

team-init

What this skill does

Reverse-engineer Context Directive Records (CDRs) from an existing codebase (brownfield) to document reusable patterns for contribution to team-ai-directives.

Replaces the former team-init skill. Drafts are written to the adlc orphan branch of team-ai-directives (not project-local .adlc/drafts/).

When to use

  • Brownfield projects: Existing code without team-wide directives
  • Legacy modernization: Extract reusable patterns before refactoring
  • Team onboarding: Turn implicit conventions into explicit directives
When NOT to use
  • Greenfield (session complete): Use /team-levelup to extract from session
  • Mining git history: Use /change-init for past decisions

Process

Phase 0: Environment Setup

Run: scripts/team-init.sh --setup

Resolves REPO_ROOT, TEAM_AI_DIRECTIVES, NEXT_CDR, ADLC_BRANCH.

Phase 1: Sub-System Detection

Analyze codebase for distinct sub-systems (same detection as former team-init):

  • src/auth/ → Authentication
  • services/payment/ → Payment
  • etc.
Phase 2: Load Team Directives

Read existing team-ai-directives main branch for comparison (avoid duplicates).

Phase 3: Multi-Agent Analysis
  1. Discovery Agent: Scan each sub-system for raw patterns
  2. Pattern Agent: Classify and score patterns for reusability
  3. Synthesis Agent: Cross-sub-system analysis and CDR generation
Phase 4: Write CDRs

Write to adlc branch drafts/cdr/ using the shared CDR draft template at skills/team/templates/cdr-draft-template.md.

Phase 5: Handoff

Suggest running /team-levelup to review and publish the discovered CDRs.

Verification

  • CDRs written to adlc branch drafts/cdr/
  • No CDRs in .adlc/drafts/ (old location)
  • cdr.md index regenerated in adlc branch

© tikalk, 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 1 other file (scripts) in skills/team/team-init of tikalk/adlc-team-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/team-init.sh

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2dbed36

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Categories

Questions about Team Init

What does Team Init do?

A skill your agent uses when bootstrapping team knowledge from a brownfield codebase — reverse-engineers CDRs for contribution to team-ai-directives adlc branch. Team Init is an agent skill from tikalk/adlc-team-skills. Use when bootstrapping team knowledge from a brownfield codebase — reverse-engineers CDRs for contribution to team-ai-directives adlc branch.

When should I use Team Init?

Team Init fits situations like: bootstrapping team knowledge from a brownfield codebase — reverse-engineers CDRs for contribution to team-ai-directives adlc branch.

How do I install Team Init in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Team Init in Codex?

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

Can I use Team Init 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 tikalk/adlc-team-skills --skill team-init -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/team-init, .gemini/skills/team-init, .github/skills/team-init and .opencode/skills/team-init in your project.

What does Team Init need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Team Init needs a shell for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: A Bash shell.

Does Team Init 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 Team Init safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Team Init use?

Team Init 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 Team Init use?

About 534 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Team Init?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Team Init: Vercel Composition Patterns (supabase/supabase, 111k stars), Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 296k stars), Typescript Advanced Types (rolling-scopes/rsschool-app, 10k stars) and PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Team Init?

tikalk (a GitHub organization) maintains it in tikalk/adlc-team-skills, which has 141 GitHub stars. The repository holds 44 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

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