Bar Init — Development skill for Claude Code
Set up BAR Observatory for this project — local config + SQLite stores, idempotent.
How to install Bar Init
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/bar181-bar-observatory-bar-init/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/bar181-bar-observatory-bar-init && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bar181/bar-observatory/HEAD/commands/bar-init.md -o ~/.claude/skills/bar181-bar-observatory-bar-init/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Bar Init does
name: bar-init description: Set up BAR Observatory for this project — local config + SQLite stores, idempotent
$ARGUMENTS
Set up BAR Observatory in the current project. This is the first command to run — everything else (`/bar-report`, `/bar-interpret`, `/bar-doctor`, `/bar-query`, and the plugin's own hooks/MCP server) reads and writes the `.bar/` directory this creates.
- Determine the target directory from
$ARGUMENTS(a path), defaulting to.(the current project root — the
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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