Team Foundation

Patterns and workflows for running clarc as a shared engineering team OS — consistent rules, private skill packs, and synchronized conventions across all developers.

When to Activate

• Setting up clarc for a team of 2+ engineers
• User runs /team-sync
• Onboarding a new developer to a team using clarc
• Distributing private rules or skills across a team
• Defining team-wide workflow conventions
• Creating a company-clarc private repository to house organization-specific rules and skills
• Troubleshooting why a team member's Claude session does not pick up the shared rules after an update

Team Installation Model

Standard Team Setup

# Team lead: create private rules + skills
mkdir -p ~/.company/private-rules ~/.company/private-skills

# Install for all team members via shared command
./install.sh --team-mode \
             --company-prefix yourco \        # replace with your company/team prefix
             --private-rules ~/.company/private-rules \
             --private-skills ~/.company/private-skills \
             typescript

# Each developer runs the same command
# → ~/.claude/rules/yourco/ (private rules)
# → ~/.claude/skills/yourco/ (private skills)

Distribution via Git

Recommended: Store team config in a private git repo:

company-clarc/
├── install-team.sh          # wrapper: calls clarc install.sh + team flags
├── private-rules/
│   ├── api-standards.md     # company API conventions
│   ├── security-policy.md   # internal security requirements
│   └── code-review.md       # review checklist
├── private-skills/
│   ├── deploy-flow/SKILL.md # company-specific deploy workflow
│   └── pr-process/SKILL.md  # internal PR process
└── README.md

install-team.sh:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
CLARC_DIR="${HOME}/.clarc"
if [[ ! -d "$CLARC_DIR" ]]; then
  git clone https://github.com/marvinrichter/clarc.git "$CLARC_DIR"
fi
bash "$CLARC_DIR/install.sh" \
  --team-mode \
  --company-prefix yourco \
  --private-rules "$SCRIPT_DIR/private-rules" \
  --private-skills "$SCRIPT_DIR/private-skills" \
  "$@"

New developer onboarding:

git clone git@github.com:yourco/company-clarc.git
cd company-clarc && ./install-team.sh typescript

Private Rules Structure

Private rules follow the same format as clarc rules:

private-rules/
├── api-standards.md      # REST/GraphQL API conventions
├── security-policy.md    # Security requirements specific to company
├── code-review.md        # Custom review checklist
├── deployment.md         # Deployment process
└── incident-response.md  # On-call and incident protocols

Each file is a plain Markdown file. Claude loads them from ~/.claude/rules/<prefix>/ automatically.

Private Skills Structure

Private skills use the standard clarc SKILL.md format:

private-skills/
├── deploy-flow/
│   └── SKILL.md          # "How to deploy at Acme"
├── feature-flags/
│   └── SKILL.md          # "Company feature flag process"
└── data-access/
    └── SKILL.md           # "Internal data access patterns"

Team Sync Workflow

Run /team-sync to:

1. Pull latest clarc — cd ~/.clarc && git pull
2. Pull team config — cd ~/company-clarc && git pull
3. Re-run team install — apply any new private rules or skills
4. Report diff — what changed since last sync

Team Conventions

Shared CLAUDE.md

Add to the project CLAUDE.md:

## Team clarc Setup

This project uses company-clarc. Install with:
  cd ~/company-clarc && ./install-team.sh typescript

Team rules are in `~/.claude/rules/yourco/`:
- api-standards.md — REST API conventions
- security-policy.md — security requirements

Private skills available: /deploy-flow, /pr-process

Preventing Rule Conflicts

• Company prefix isolates private rules: ~/.claude/rules/yourco/
• Private rules never overwrite clarc common rules
• Developers can still override any rule with their own version

Onboarding Checklist

[ ] Clone company-clarc
[ ] Run ./install-team.sh <language>
[ ] Verify: ls ~/.claude/rules/yourco/
[ ] Verify: ls ~/.claude/agents/ (should list 50+ agents)
[ ] Read CLAUDE.md in the project repository
[ ] Enable Memory Bank: mkdir .clarc (in project root)
[ ] Test: open Claude Code, run /doctor