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sdd-init
Initialize Spec-Driven Development context — detects tech stack, conventions, architecture patterns, and bootstraps persistence backends. Triggers on 'sdd-init', 'init sdd', 'setup sdd', 'initialize sdd', 'setup project', 'initialize project context'. Creates/updates docs/specs/architecture.md & ontology.md (Constitution), and populates knowledge-graph.json.
Works with
Install in three steps
- 1
Download the ZIP
One file per agent, plus INSTALL.md with the exact paths below.
- 2
Claude Code: copy SKILL.md into your skills folder
.claude/skills/sdd-init/SKILL.md # this project ~/.claude/skills/sdd-init/SKILL.md # every project
- 3
Other agents: use the matching file
skill.mdc goes in Cursor’s .cursor/rules/. AGENTS.md works as GitHub Copilot instructions, a legacy .cursorrules, or a Codex / Gemini CLI instructions file.

