Spine Init — Git skill for Claude Code
Scaffold the document spine — lay down an empty skeleton entry per unit for an existing document (bootstrap), write-and-show, no auto-commit.
How to install Spine Init
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/kiibou-chan-academic-writing-spine-init/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/kiibou-chan-academic-writing-spine-init && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kiibou-chan/academic-writing/HEAD/commands/spine-init.md -o ~/.claude/skills/kiibou-chan-academic-writing-spine-init/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Spine Init does
description: Scaffold the document spine — lay down an empty skeleton entry per unit for an existing document (bootstrap), write-and-show, no auto-commit
Scaffold this project's document spine (`docs/spine.md`, or the `Spine path:` CLAUDE.md override) with one empty skeleton entry per unit. This is the **bootstrap** for a document whose units were written before the spine existed; it fills structure only (`parent` and an anchored `source` per leaf; a bare id per parent) and leaves inten
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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