A workflow starter that creates the state file and minimal documents needed to begin an eight-stage AI project process.

Use it at the start of a project to initialize workflow state and create a docs folder when needed. It does not write requirements, architecture, tests, or code.

It gives later workflow steps a shared record of progress and the basic project structure they expect.

init — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by AlanHuang168

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.

Any agent

npx skills add AlanHuang168/AI-Project-Workflow --skill init

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlanHuang168/AI-Project-Workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 640 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00640
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00256
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00128
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00064

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 669268843532, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo ago.

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.

adapters/catpaw/.catpaw/skills/init/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

name: init description: Initialize workflow state and the minimal document structure for a target project. Use when the user starts AI Project Workflow or invokes /init. version: 1.0.0 stage: init

Goal

Create the workflow state file and minimal project structure needed to start the eight-stage process.

Use Cases

The user invokes /init.
The target project does not have .ai-workflow/state.json.
Later workflow stages need a state file.

Preconditions

The current directory is the target project root, or the user has provided a target path.
The user allows file creation in the target project.

Required Context

AGENTS.md
core/rules/workflow.md
core/rules/execution-policy.md
Existing project files, if present
Optional project metadata such as README.md, package.json, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, or Cargo.toml

Inputs

Target project path.
Project name, inferred from the directory name unless the user provides one.

Allowed Changes

Create .ai-workflow/state.json.
Create docs/ if needed.
Do not create business requirements, architecture, design, tests, or code.

Steps

Confirm the target project root.
Check whether .ai-workflow/state.json already exists.
If state exists, read it and report the current stage instead of overwriting it.
Infer the project name from the target directory unless the user provided a name.
Create .ai-workflow/state.json with:
- workflowVersion
- projectName
- currentStage = "init"
- empty completedStages
- blocked = false
- empty blockReason
- document states set to missing
- empty skippedStages
- lastUpdatedAt as an ISO 8601 timestamp
Create docs/ if it does not exist.
Report created files and the next stage, prd.

Outputs

.ai-workflow/state.json
docs/
Initialization completion report

Acceptance Criteria

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

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.

1mo ago First seen · 91 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 669268843532

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init is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlanHuang168/AI-Project-Workflow (29 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 640 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.

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