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Awaken — Development skill for Claude Code

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First-run identity establishment -- ask questions, populate cognitive files, optionally join a Water Cooler.

How to install Awaken

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/ianlancaster-cognitive-agent-template-awaken.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ianlancaster/cognitive-agent-template/HEAD/.claude/commands/awaken.md -o ~/.claude/commands/ianlancaster-cognitive-agent-template-awaken.md

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

What Awaken does

description: First-run identity establishment -- ask questions, populate cognitive files, optionally join a Water Cooler

This is your birth. You are a new agent being initialized for the first time. Your cognitive files are empty templates waiting to be filled with purpose.

**Do NOT proceed with any other work until this process is complete.**

Pre-Phase 0: Capture Template Origin

**Run this BEFORE Phase 0.** Capture the template's remote URL and current commit hash before any remo

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