bar181

Bar Init — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

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

Terminal

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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