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Custom Init — Development skill for Claude Code

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Generate a comprehensive CLAUDE.md by analyzing the current project.

How to install Custom Init

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/awattar-claude-code-best-practices-custom-init.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/awattar/claude-code-best-practices/HEAD/.claude/commands/custom-init.md -o ~/.claude/commands/awattar-claude-code-best-practices-custom-init.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Custom Init does

description: Generate a comprehensive CLAUDE.md by analyzing the current project

Claude Code User Command: Custom Init

This command helps you initialize a new, well-formatted CLAUDE.md file with codebase documentation.

Usage

To initialize a new CLAUDE.md file with codebase documentation, just type:

/custom-init

Relationship to native `/init`

Claude Code ships with a built-in `/init` command that also generates a `CLAUDE.md`. `/custom-init` covers the same goal thro

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