create-project SKILL.md skillA

create-project from tomzx/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add tomzx/agents/create-project@git:20261007.b35fc4b

Pins git:20261007.b35fc4b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
tomzx/agents
Path
skills/create-project/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261007.b35fc4b, committed Oct 7, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 19, 2026
Size
7,482 bytes
Repository stars
12
License
MIT

Interview the user to populate the project context files (.sdlc/context/) for a new or empty project. Use when the user says /create-project, "start a new project", "set up project context", "bootstrap an empty project", or wants to fill .sdlc/context/ by answering questions instead of editing stubs by hand.

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

# Create Project

Populates the project context files under `.sdlc/context/` by interviewing the user, so a new or empty project has full context before any feature work starts.

`initialize-sdlc-directory` creates the context files as stubs, and `sync-sdlc` fills them by analyzing existing code.
An empty project has no code to analyze, which leaves stubs.
This skill closes that gap: it asks, one topic per round, the questions the stubs need answered, and writes each file as its round completes.

`goals.md` is deliberately out of scope: `/create-goals` owns it (see Next Step).

## Prerequisites

- Apply the shared SDLC conventions in `skills/sdlc/references/shared.md`.
- Optional project root (`$1`); defaults to the current working directory.
- The user is available to answer questions (this skill is interactive; never invent answers).

## Steps

1. If the project root already contains source code (not just scaffolding like `.git/` or a README), ask the user whether `/sync-sdlc` is the better tool, since code analysis produces more accurate context than an interview.
   Proceed only if the user confirms.
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tomzx/agents/create-project@sha256:f4aeb524a396f309

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261007.b35fc4b, 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 5 versions of this file, between Aug 19, 2026 and Oct 7, 2026, about one every 12 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (7482 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

GitHub

tomzx/agents · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nw46e7hyrqshfhyi
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tomzx/agents/create-project
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f4aeb524a396f309af22e0006ac89a2bf85f8bfe2f5fe2d6da4d57dd22b0eaf8

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