Answer three questions,
and the folder is a project
Use Claude Code's own native mechanisms to turn a folder into a project that knows your working conventions, has clear sections, and ships with one reusable procedure. Set up in one pass.
- CLAUDE.md A working-conventions block (language, work type, explanation style + 2 ground rules), appended after your existing content — never overwritten
- Skill One reusable procedure — code-review or decision-record, pick one, written to the official .claude/skills/ — ready to use
- Folders Five working folders: work / archive / library / log / inbox — plain descriptive names, no number prefixes
- Interview 3 questions via AskUserQuestion (language / work type / explanation style) — click, no free-typing
- No symlink The procedure lives in the in-repo official skills dir and travels with the repo — never touches ~/.claude/
- Official All native Claude Code mechanisms — no memory system, no takeover of your global setup
- Updates Version updates pushed to the GitHub repo — no sales pitches
Paste, say one line, set up in one pass
Paste cc/init.md into a fresh Claude Code chat, say "Run LUCE setup", and it walks you through:
- 01/ Environment check
Reads your environment first (OS, existing CLAUDE.md, git repo) and prints what it found — touches nothing
- 02/ Three questions
Conversation language / what this folder is for / your preferred explanation style, via AskUserQuestion — click, no typing
- 03/ Write conventions + add a procedure
Appends working conventions to CLAUDE.md (existing content untouched), then writes one reusable procedure into the official .claude/skills/ — no symlink
- 04/ Create folders, wrap up
Creates work / archive / library / log / inbox, prints a wrap-up, done
Set up in one pass. Open a new chat, type your chosen procedure name, or just tell Claude what you want — it already knows this folder's conventions.
Three honest misfits
- 01/ People expecting a no-prompt magic stack — you still need to make judgments
- 02/ Heavy users with a mature workspace setup — this will feel too basic
- 03/ Teams wanting enterprise configuration — see Studio
Design, safety, exits
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01/ How is this different from the paid Starter Pack?
The paid Starter Pack ($49) is a stack-agnostic workflow template collection (30+ prompts, 7 SOPs). The Claude Code Project Setup Pack is the tool-setup layer: it uses native mechanisms to turn a folder into a project with working conventions. Two different layers.
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02/ Will running this lock me into anything?
No. The output is plain markdown plus your own folders and skill — all native Claude Code mechanisms. Take it anywhere, modify it, or throw it away.
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03/ I already have a CLAUDE.md — will it be overwritten?
No. On install it reads your existing
CLAUDE.mdfirst and appends a dated working-conventions block at the end. Existing content is untouched. Re-running just appends another dated section. -
04/ Does it touch my ~/.claude/ hidden setup?
No. The reusable procedure is written straight into the in-repo
.claude/skills/(Claude Code's official location for project skills); it travels with the repo, needs no symlink, and touches no hidden config. -
05/ Why Claude Code? What if I use CodeX?
There is a separate CodeX Project Setup Pack. Same folder structure; the difference is the conventions file (
AGENTS.md) and CodeX's own native mechanisms.