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name: project-scaffolding

- description: "Create repositories and maintain Copier or Cookiecutter/Cruft templates, updates, and licenses."

+ description: "Create repos and licenses; author Copier, Cookiecutter, or Cruft templates and apply their updates."

license: MIT

metadata:

kind: collection

author: Médéric HURIER (Fmind)

source: github.com/fmind/dot/tree/main/skills/project-scaffolding

created: "2026-09-02"

updated: "2026-10-04"

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# Project Scaffolding

Create the smallest useful repository or maintain its reusable template. Copier is the default for new templates; keep existing Cookiecutter/Cruft projects on their current workflow.

## Workflow

Read only the matching guide and its required resources. Use a known guide directly when shared prerequisites are not needed.

## Task guides

- - [bootstrap](references/bootstrap.md): Repository bootstrap and stack composition.

- - [cookiecutter](references/cookiecutter/GUIDE.md): Existing Cookiecutter/Cruft generation and template updates.

- - [copier](references/copier.md): New reusable templates and tracked updates.

- - [project-license](references/project-license/GUIDE.md): Repository license choice and metadata.

+ - [bootstrap](references/bootstrap.md): Create a new repository: location, visibility, stack composition, shared layer, validation, and first push.

+ - [cookiecutter](references/cookiecutter/GUIDE.md): Generate from existing Cookiecutter templates and update Cruft-tracked projects without losing local edits.

+ - [copier](references/copier.md): Author new reusable Copier templates, generate projects, and apply tracked template updates.

+ - [project-license](references/project-license/GUIDE.md): Choose, write, and declare a repository LICENSE (MIT, CC-BY-4.0, or proprietary) by namespace and content.