new-workspace

Provision Knowledge-Documentation Workspace

Creates a new workspace for structured knowledge documentation. This plugin's commands (/knowledge-documentation:index-topic, /knowledge-documentation:cross-link, etc.) are globally available once installed — this skill only provisions the data scaffold (CLAUDE.md, content directories, README) that those commands read from and write to.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS is parsed as:

• First positional: workspace name (kebab-case, used as directory and GitHub repo name). Required.
• Second positional (optional): target parent path. Defaults to ~/repos/github/my-repos.
• --variant=<wiki|resource-library|process-documentation|experiment-report> (optional): which scaffold to copy. Default: wiki.
• --local-only (optional): skip GitHub repo creation and push. Default: create a public GitHub repo and push.
• --private (optional): create the GitHub repo as private. Default: public.

Examples

/knowledge-documentation:new-workspace home-network-wiki
/knowledge-documentation:new-workspace ai-tools-list --variant=resource-library
/knowledge-documentation:new-workspace ops-sops --variant=process-documentation
/knowledge-documentation:new-workspace prompt-length-study --variant=experiment-report --private

Procedure

1. Parse arguments

Extract workspace name, target parent path, variant, and flags from $ARGUMENTS. If the workspace name is missing, ask the user for it before proceeding.

2. Resolve the scaffold path

The bundled scaffold lives at ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../template/<variant>/. Confirm it exists. If the variant isn't one of wiki, resource-library, process-documentation, experiment-report, tell the user which variants are available.

3. Read ambient facts

Read ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md if it exists. Extract OS, locale, timezone, and user identity facts. These will personalise the workspace's CLAUDE.md at step 6.

4. Create the workspace directory

mkdir -p <target-parent>/<workspace-name>
cp -r ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../template/<variant>/. <target-parent>/<workspace-name>/

Do not copy any .claude/ tree. The plugin's primitives are global.

5. Personalise CLAUDE.md

Open the new workspace's CLAUDE.md and:

• Replace any placeholder identity with the facts from step 3.
• Add a short header noting the workspace name and variant.
• If ambient facts include OS/locale, embed them so downstream commands can skip re-asking.

6. Prompt for variant-specific facts

Ask the user only for facts this plugin can't infer:

• wiki: the wiki's subject/scope (write into CLAUDE.md as WIKI_SCOPE).
• resource-library: the curation topic (write as RESOURCE_TOPIC).
• process-documentation: the domain (e.g., "deployment ops", "incident response") — write as DOC_DOMAIN. Ask if authoritative sources should be listed (SOP-style grounding).
• experiment-report: the experiment series name / research area (write as EXPERIMENT_FOCUS).

7. Initialise git and (optionally) publish

cd <target-parent>/<workspace-name>
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial workspace from knowledge-documentation plugin"

Unless --local-only is set:

gh repo create <workspace-name> --<public|private> --source=. --push

Use --public by default, --private if flag was passed.

8. Print next steps

Tell the user:

• Workspace path.
• Variant chosen.
• Which plugin commands apply next (e.g., /knowledge-documentation:new-page to add content, then /knowledge-documentation:index-topic to refresh the index).
• Reminder that the workspace is data — they can delete/move it freely without losing the plugin's commands.

Notes

• The scaffold path must be resolved via ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../template/ (not ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} — that variable isn't exported in skill bash injection, only in hooks/MCP).
• Never copy .claude/commands/, .claude/agents/, or .claude/skills/ into the new workspace. If the user wants workspace-local overrides, they can add them manually later.
• Don't hard-code any personal paths or identifiers here — everything comes from user memory or prompts.