Context and Problem Statement

ADR 0013 (2026-09-02, proposed) kept profile-repo — the reader that records a repository’s facts in .claude/skills/repo-profile.md — and setup-repo — the writer that converges labels, issue forms, settings, topics and the Pages source from a manifest — as two skills, and named the shape to take “if the boundary keeps confusing users”: a merge, in the next major. Making a repository ready for the lifecycle skills still takes two front doors and a third invocation nothing executes (setup-repo ends on “re-run profile-repo --refresh“), and every place a newcomer meets the kit — the AGENTS.md routing line, the README’s “A new repo for these skills” row, the methodology’s two rows — spells it as “profile-repo then setup-repo”. On 2026-10-09 the owner decided the merge, under the name init: clearer for users, one command fewer (#700).

Considered Options

• One skill, init, over the two unchanged scripts, with three paths — the whole story by default, --plan that writes nothing on GitHub, --profile-only that is today’s profile-repo. Chosen.
• Keep two skills and add an /init command that runs both in sequence. Declined: it adds a front door instead of removing one, and the routing table would name three entries for one step.
• Merge under configure-repo, the name ADR 0013 pre-computed. Declined as the primary name — it is not the one the owner chose — and kept as the fallback below.

Decision Outcome

profile-repo and setup-repo become one skill, init, in three slices — init lands beside them (#701), their scripts move under skills/init/ with names and CLIs unchanged (#702), and the old skills are deleted with no alias in a feat(init)!: major (#703, ADR 0012’s no-alias rule). ADR 0013’s two arguments survive inside the one skill rather than between two: the profile path still runs without rights and degrades to TODOs, and the writer runs only on a request to set up, configure or converge (or a bare /tagout:init) — a request to read or regenerate the profile, or to check drift, takes --profile-only or --plan. init is a bare verb, a named exception to ADR 0012’s rule 1 (verb-object): its object, the repository, is implicit, the way the bare verb migrate heads its family; rules 1 and 2 stand for every other skill.

Consequences

One front door: the routing line, the README and the methodology name init alone, and the profile refresh after apply is a step of the skill rather than advice. The cost is a breaking release — every /tagout:profile-repo and /tagout:setup-repo in a user’s notes stops resolving, which the 4.0.0 notes announce — and a name Claude Code already uses: its built-in /init writes a CLAUDE.md, so the kit’s skill is typed /tagout:init, and evals/init-trigger-eval.json carries “create a CLAUDE.md for this repo” as a should-not-trigger near-miss. Reopens when the owner-run trigger bench measures that near-miss — or any built-in-/init phrasing — firing init above the 0.5 threshold after a description edit; the rename to configure-repo is then the shape to take, at the next major.