team-init

A project setup command that creates a minimal `cairnkit.yaml` file, which tells cairnkit how the project and its repositories are organised.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when introducing cairnkit to a single-repository project or preparing a project for later cairnkit workflows.
Why use it?
It gives cairnkit a starting configuration without overwriting an existing one. The project does not need to be a Git repository for the basic setup.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/shenchangmin/cairnkit/team-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shenchangmin/cairnkit
Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 355 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00023 $0.00355
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00178
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured yesterday against content hash 5905d8ba678c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

team-init scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/team-init.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

/team-init

Set up cairnkit for the current project.

Steps

  1. Check for an existing cairnkit.yaml. If present, do not overwrite — report the current config and stop (re-init is an explicit, separate action).

  2. Gather minimal config:

    • project: default to the directory name; confirm with the user.
    • domain: optional; when set, it scopes business-knowledge queries. Default null.
  3. Write cairnkit.yaml at the project root (single-repo default):

    project: <name>
    domain: null
    repos:
      - name: <name>
        path: .
    

    This is the smallest valid configuration. Add multiple repos entries, a normalized project-local knowledge_root, an independent knowledge_repo.local checkout, or optional notification settings only when the project needs them.

  4. Git degradation: the host project need not be a Git repo; cairnkit runs in project-local mode. System Git is required only when an independent shared knowledge_repo.local checkout is configured. Do not error merely because the host project itself has no .git directory.

  5. Verify: run cairn --root . config show. Exit 0 with has_run: false is the expected, healthy result (config valid; no run started yet). Tell the user the flow-run entrypoint is ready.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 38 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 5905d8ba678c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

team-init is a command published in the GitHub repository shenchangmin/cairnkit (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 355 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.