Agentic Project Bootstrap

Build a reusable planning and execution pipeline before feature work starts. Ground the repository in explicit product docs, milestone sequencing, protocol boundaries, parity tracking, and agent instructions that force future work through that pipeline.

Read only the references and templates that matter for the current repository. Keep the result specific to the project instead of dropping generic boilerplate unchanged.

Workflow

1. Triage The Repository

• Inspect the repo layout, README, existing docs, and any existing AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.
• Determine whether the repository is greenfield, partially documented, or already has planning artifacts that need normalization.
• Identify the product surface area, likely users, major runtime boundaries, and any protocol or persistence concerns.
• If the user names a target product direction, use it. Otherwise, derive a minimal defensible framing from the code and existing docs.

Use references/research-and-scoping.md when you need the discovery questions and evidence checklist.

2. Define The Planning Surface