Install Groundwork

One command installs the skill. The installer detects your harness and drops the files where they belong.

1. Install the skill

Works anywhere the open skills installer runs: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and 50+ more.

npx skills add IgniticAB/groundwork

Open the agent, type groundwork, and the menu appears.

Target a specific harness

npx skills add IgniticAB/groundwork -a claude-code
npx skills add IgniticAB/groundwork -a cursor -a codex

Install globally

npx skills add IgniticAB/groundwork -g

2. Use it

Three ways to invoke a command:

• By name. groundwork init, groundwork audit, groundwork plan.
• By natural language. "Set up this repo for AI-first development" triggers init. The skill's description routes to the right command.
• By slash shortcut (Claude Code only). /gw init, /gw audit. Ships with the skill.

On a fresh repo:

groundwork init

On a repo with stale context files:

groundwork document

3. Add the CLI for CI (optional)

The skill authors context. The CLI guards it. Twelve deterministic rules, no LLM, JSON output. Wire it into CI and pre-commit so context drift never ships.

npx @ignitic/groundwork detect --fail-on P0

Every flag and the twelve rules: the CLI page. Pull skill updates with npx @ignitic/groundwork skills update.