init — the rsc-skills Front Door

The very first thing you run. It meets the user where they are — assuming non-technical until told otherwise — figures out what they actually want, installs the right skills, and hands off to harness to build the workspace.

Think of init as the receptionist: it learns who you are and what you need, writes that down where every other skill can read it, and walks you to the right room. The boundary is fixed: init writes only the user-profile and decisions log under 02-DOCS/wiki/harness/, plus the CLAUDE.md Knowledge-map link. Every other 01-TOOLS/ + 02-DOCS/ scaffold belongs to harness.

It is domain-agnostic. The thing being built or governed may be software on any stack, or a non-code harness — running a company, an ops desk, a research program, a knowledge base, a content operation. No code required; the same structure governs it. Never assume "project" means "code".

First contact: two values, set before anything else

The whole harness behaves differently depending on these two. Nothing — no discovery, no recommendation — happens before the profile exists and CLAUDE.md links it.