do-init

Init Maverick Project

Set up the current repository for Maverick — install the CLI if needed, validate the Maverick GitHub App, write the project-level config, scaffold docs and project skills, run the cybersecurity audit, then commit everything and open a pull request for the user to approve.

Execution Context

This skill runs in its own forked context (context: fork) — you are executing it directly; there is no separate agent to dispatch. Follow the process below exactly and end with the structured result in the Return section. Do not modify the user's project source code, perform git operations beyond what the process prescribes, or provision infrastructure.

Process

1. Ensure the Maverick CLI is installed and matches the plugin

Run command -v maverick to check whether the CLI is already on PATH.

If maverick is not on PATH, dispatch the /maverick:do-install skill and wait for it to complete. After the install returns, re-run command -v maverick to confirm the binary is now resolvable. If it still is not (e.g. ~/.local/bin is not on the user's PATH), report the install message verbatim to the user and stop — they need to fix PATH and re-invoke /maverick:do-init manually.

If maverick is on PATH, verify the installed CLI matches the loaded plugin. A stale binary from an earlier plugin version can be missing subcommands the rest of this skill depends on (e.g. maverick integration, maverick preflight).

• Read the installed CLI version: maverick --version
• Read the plugin version: grep -Po '(?<=^version = ")[^"]+' "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/pyproject.toml"
• If they differ, dispatch /maverick:do-install to refresh the CLI. That skill always runs uv tool install --force from the plugin root, so it overwrites whatever is currently installed. After it returns, re-run maverick --version and confirm it now matches the plugin version. If it still does not, surface the mismatch to the user and stop.
• If the versions already match, skip to step 2.

do-init cannot complete without a CLI version that matches the plugin. The remaining steps invoke maverick directly and depend on subcommands that may have been added in newer versions.

2. Preflight — verify the Maverick GitHub App exists

Run:

uv run maverick preflight do-init

This runs the same gh_app_configured runtime check the issue-driven workflows enforce. If it exits non-zero, halt do-init immediately and report the stderr output verbatim to the user. The remaining steps make file changes and open a PR; running them on a machine without a working GitHub App is wasted work because nothing downstream of do-init will function until the App is set up.

Maverick does not create the GitHub App. That is a manual human action. If preflight fails, surface this to the user verbatim:

The Maverick GitHub App is not configured. Maverick cannot create it for you — you need to do this manually before re-running /maverick:do-init.

1. Create a new GitHub App at https://github.com/settings/apps/new with these permissions: contents: read, metadata: read, pull-requests: write, issues: write.

2. Generate and download a private key for the App. Save it to ~/.maverick/maverick-gh-app.pem (or any path you prefer).

3. Install the App on the repo(s) you want Maverick to operate on. Note the installation_id from the install URL.

4. Add a gh_app block to ~/.maverick/config.json:

   {
     "gh_app": {
       "app_id": <integer>,
       "installation_id": <integer>,
       "private_key_path": "~/.maverick/maverick-gh-app.pem"
     }
   }
   

5. Verify with maverick gh-app status — it should print "configured": true.

6. Re-run /maverick:do-init.

3. Initialise the project config

Run:

uv run maverick init

This detects the project's tech stack, writes .maverick/config.json with the detected modules and a fresh integration block (init: true, all other flags false), and prints a summary of what was detected. If a config already exists, the command preserves any integration flags that are already true — re-running is safe.

4. Initialise project-level overrides

Write .maverick/settings.json containing {} if the file does not already exist. This is where project-specific overrides go later; an empty object is the correct default. Do not overwrite an existing file.

5. Scaffold the technical documentation

Dispatch /maverick:do-docs. The greenfield mode of that skill flips integration.tech_docs_scaffolded to true automatically when it completes.

6. Generate project skills

Dispatch /maverick:do-upskill. It iterates every topic in topics.json and writes per-topic skills under docs/maverick/skills/, then flips integration.upskill to true.

7. Run the cybersecurity review

Dispatch /maverick:do-cybersecurity-review. It scans the existing codebase for common security risks (secrets, dependency vulnerabilities, auth/input-validation patterns), writes findings to docs/security-audit.md, and flips integration.cybersecurity_reviewed to true. The review is surface-only — it reports, it does not modify code. Any FAIL findings should be tracked as follow-up issues by the user.

8. Commit changes and open a pull request

The earlier steps wrote a number of new and modified files. Commit them on a fresh branch and open a PR for the user to approve.

1. Sanity-check the working tree. Run git status --porcelain. The only changed paths should be:

   • .maverick/config.json, .maverick/settings.json
   • docs/maverick/skills/... (from do-upskill)
   • docs/... content created by do-docs greenfield
   • docs/security-audit.md (from do-cybersecurity-review)

   If git status shows changes outside these paths, abort and report to the user — they have unrelated uncommitted work that should be handled first.

2. Resolve base + branch. Capture the current branch as the PR base:

   base="$(git branch --show-current)"
   

   Choose a branch name chore/maverick-init. If a branch with that name already exists locally or on origin, abort and tell the user — a previous init attempt may be in-flight.

3. Create the branch and stage maverick paths only.

   git checkout -b chore/maverick-init
   git add .maverick/
   [ -d docs/maverick ] && git add docs/maverick/
   [ -f docs/security-audit.md ] && git add docs/security-audit.md
   # Stage anything else under docs/ that do-docs greenfield created.
   git add -u docs/ && git add docs/
   

   Do not use git add -A or git add . — the goal is to stage only what do-init produced, not anything the user happened to leave in the tree.

4. Commit with a conventional message:

   git commit -m "chore: initialise Maverick"
   

5. Push and open the PR:

   git push -u origin chore/maverick-init
   gh pr create --base "$base" \
       --title "chore: initialise Maverick" \
       --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
   ## Summary
   
   This PR was generated by `/maverick:do-init`. Review the changes and merge when ready.
   
   ### What's in this PR
   - `.maverick/` — project config and integration tracking
   - `docs/maverick/skills/` — generated project-specific skills
   - `docs/security-audit.md` — initial cybersecurity audit findings (review FAIL items)
   - Other `docs/` content scaffolded by `do-docs`
   
   ### Verify after merge
   ```bash
   uv run maverick integration get
   

   EOF )"

6. Capture the PR URL from the gh pr create output and pass it through to the report in the next step.

9. Report

Print a final summary to the user:

• Detected modules (from step 3's output)
• Whether docs were scaffolded greenfield or already existed
• How many project skills were generated
• The number of security-audit findings at each severity, and the path to the audit report
• The current integration state: uv run maverick integration get
• The PR URL from step 8
• A one-line note that PR code review now runs locally as the agent-code-reviewer subagent during do-issue-solo / do-epic. If the project later wants the optional CI-side gate (multi-machine workflows, untrusted environments, audit needs), point the user at mav-bp-remote-code-review for the manual scaffold steps.

The integration checklist gives the user (and any future Maverick session) a clear view of what's been completed and what's still pending.