setting-up-a-project SKILL.md skillA
setting-up-a-project from jetbrains/thinkrail is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jetbrains/thinkrail/setting-up-a-project@git:20261013.ba8d9d8Pins git:20261013.ba8d9d8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jetbrains/thinkrail
- Path
packages/pi-thinkrail-workflow/skills/setting-up-a-project/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261013.ba8d9d8, committed Oct 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 13, 2026
- Size
- 2,020 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,127
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when asked to set up, onboard, initialize, or spec a project with no spec graph, or when invoked by the app's Set-up-project card. Not for ordinary work in an already-specced project.
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
# Setting up a project — dispatcher The single entry point for turning a project into a spec graph. Figure out which situation you're in, then follow the matching skill — don't improvise the flow yourself. ## 1. Detect Look at the workspace and use the spec tools (`spec_grep` / `spec_graph`): - Is there already a spec graph (a `goal-and-requirements.md` or any `SPEC.md`)? - Is there real source code, or is the repo empty / near-empty (just a README or scaffolding)? ## 2. Route | Situation | Follow | |---|---| | **Already has specs** | Don't redo it. Briefly offer to review/extend the graph (fill obvious gaps — a missing `architecture.md`, un-specced modules). Other work routes as usual: features, behavior changes, and bug fixes through `brainstorming`; work that changes no behavior proceeds directly. Declined → stop. Accepted → **Graph extension** below. | | **No specs · empty / near-empty repo** | The **`starting-a-new-project`** skill — interview the user to turn the idea into `goal-and-requirements.md`. | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jetbrains/thinkrail/setting-up-a-project@sha256:da97c4d008476c13The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.ba8d9d8, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_seba7wt7mimt6o77)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 13, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026, about one every 46 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261013.ba8d9d8 latest | 2026-10-13 | ba8d9d8 | 2,020 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.0a41d5d | 2026-09-15 | 0a41d5d | 2,023 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.f2e4d5a | 2026-07-13 | f2e4d5a | 2,097 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2020 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
jetbrains/thinkrail · 7,127 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_seba7wt7mimt6o77 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jetbrains/thinkrail/setting-up-a-project GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/da97c4d008476c1368f39466f232530acf01cf8af19992137730381b0511700d
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