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adopt-existing is agent-read markdown (skill) from llopresto87/cypress: Source-first growth of an existing single- or multi-repository project into CYPRESS's unified docs/graph knowledge system. Use from initialize when code already exists, or for a graph refresh after material code changes. Scout executable evidence, model subsystem nodes, build project-specific architecture/product/API/data/dependency/prompt/operations leaves, connect them for progressive discovery, and validate navigation. Never trust centralized prose without source corroboration, invent specs o.

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What the file says

# Adopt an existing project

Turn a generic installed seed into a project-specific knowledge plant.
Follow `docs/graph/protocols/initialize.md`; this skill supplies the existing-project
discovery and authoring discipline.

## Invariants

- `docs/graph/` is the only maintained knowledge root. The router, nodes,
  LLM wiki, provenance, plans, runbooks, contracts, and deep dives are
  layers of one graph, not separate documentation systems.
- Executable source outranks prose. Manifests, entry points, routes,
  schemas, migrations, config, deployment, tests, CI, prompts, and evals
  are primary evidence. Existing docs are corroborating evidence only.
- Make additive knowledge changes. Preserve application code and unrelated
  existing files. Never delete or relocate competing AI configurations.
- Do not run builds or application test suites during adoption. Extract
  their exact commands and label them `discovered, not executed`. An
  inherited suite is untrusted until it has been proven by mutation (see
  `docs/graph/protocols/test-first.md` — prove RED by mutation); record it as discovered,
  never as passing.
- Do not fetch, pull, switch, commit, or push. Record repository revision
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A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10204 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

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llopresto87/cypress · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main

API

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