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Initialize a project through deep questioning - PROJECT.md, REQUIREMENTS.md, a phased ROADMAP.md and .planning/ state

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$ npx -y skills add crenshawdev/cadence --skill cad-new-project --agent claude-code

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cad-new-project.SKILL.md
name: cad-new-project
description: "Initialize a project through deep questioning - PROJECT.md, REQUIREMENTS.md, a phased ROADMAP.md and .planning/ state"
argument-hint: "[--research] [--brief <file>]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Write
  - Edit
  - Grep
  - Glob
  - AskUserQuestion
  - Task

<objective> Start a project properly: question deeply until the idea is concrete, then write PROJECT.md and REQUIREMENTS.md, derive a phased ROADMAP.md with falsifiable per-phase success criteria, and initialize .planning/ (config copied from the engine template, STATE.md cursor). Research is off by default; `--research` or config `workflow.research` enables a single research pass. `--brief <file>` reads a design brief an earlier conversation produced and questions only what it leaves open. </objective>

<execution_context> @${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/cadence-core/workflows/new-project.md </execution_context>

<process> Execute end-to-end. </process>

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Appearance is cheap. Verification is the work. Cadence is for developers using Claude Code on software they will still own after the session ends. Claude can write a convincing plan, produce working code, and tell you the job is finished.

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cad-new-project installs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf with the skills CLI, using each agent's flag shown on this page. Flowy's auto-invocation, which fires a skill when your prompt matches, runs in Claude Code only.