espalier-init SKILL.md skillA
espalier-init from junhanliu-dev/espalier-engineering is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add junhanliu-dev/espalier-engineering/espalier-init@git:20261020.69759d1Pins git:20261020.69759d1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- junhanliu-dev/espalier-engineering
- Path
skills/espalier-init/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261020.69759d1, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 6, 2026
- Size
- 44,500 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- MIT
Analyze any existing codebase, discover its patterns and best practices, and generate an Espalier structure (rules, skills, wiki, pipeline) so AI coders produce code matching that project's language and conventions. Greenfield repos take the two-pass Decide-Then-Bind path (/espalier-map charts the conventions, init binds them); boilerplate repos run init normally, then map the product. Wires into Claude Code, Codex, and/or GitHub Copilot (.claude/, .agents/skills/ + .codex/, .github/).
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Espalier Init Discover the actual patterns, conventions, and architecture of an existing codebase, then generate a structured constraint system that ensures AI agents produce code matching those standards. ## When to Use - "Set up Espalier for this project" - "Create Espalier structure for my codebase" - "Make AI code production-ready for this repo" - "Build agent constraints for this project" - "/espalier-init" - "/espalier-init --outside" — install with the `espalier/` tree OUTSIDE the repo (nothing espalier-related committed) ## Flags | Flag | Effect | |------|--------| | `--outside[=<dir>]` | **Outside mode (v0.30).** The `espalier/` tree lives at `<dir>/<name>/espalier/` — default `<dir>` is the project's PARENT directory + `/espalier-main`, created if missing — with its own local git repo (no remote). The project root gets a RELATIVE symlink `espalier -> ../espalier-main/<name>/espalier`, excluded via `.git/info/exclude`. Hooks go to `.claude/settings.local.json`, the instruction section to `CLAUDE.local.md`, every wiring path to the exclude file: the project repo never tracks anything espalier-related, and Stage 7 commits records into the outside repo instead of… …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add junhanliu-dev/espalier-engineering/espalier-init@sha256:c85b48db435e3879The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.69759d1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Aug 6, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 9 days.
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| git:20261020.69759d1 latest | 2026-10-20 | 69759d1 | 44,500 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261009.ad5a955 | 2026-10-09 | ad5a955 | 40,274 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260918.b0e51f7 | 2026-09-18 | b0e51f7 | 40,226 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.ae4827e | 2026-09-15 | ae4827e | 40,214 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.c4dcb35 | 2026-09-09 | c4dcb35 | 40,112 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260903.910585f | 2026-09-03 | 910585f | 39,786 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20260806.dfe2125 | 2026-08-06 | dfe2125 | 38,007 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
junhanliu-dev/espalier-engineering · 69 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
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