create-adsk

create-adsk

Adopt agent skills, Cursor commands, and team profiles — versioned in your repo. Not a skills marketplace.

(create-adsk applies an ADSK profile: skills via the skills CLI plus optional Cursor commands/rules.)

Quick Start

Interactive

npx create-adsk

Follow the prompts. You pick a profile (kit depth), optionally select packs (product-value-loop, engineering-methods), then the CLI installs skills, syncs Cursor commands when the profile includes them, and writes .adsk/config.json.

Profile skills are first-party ADSK (include evals/). Packs install upstream skills as those authors ship them — often without an ADSK-style evals/ folder. Details: docs/using-adsk.md.

Profile	You get
core	Spec-driven workflow + Cursor commands
delivery	Core + solution architecture + DevOps strategy + release automation
maintainer	Delivery + skill/README/PR authoring + supply-chain gate + stock rules
skills-only	All first-party skills; no .cursor/ writes

Source: profiles.json. Contract: docs/product/create-adsk.md.

Non-interactive

npx create-adsk --profile delivery --yes

Flag	Meaning
--profile <id>	Choose a profile without prompting
--yes / -y	Skip prompts (core if --profile is omitted; packs off unless --packs / --with-optional-packs)
--packs <ids>	Comma-separated pack IDs (e.g. engineering-methods)
--with-optional-packs	Include all packs

See npx create-adsk --help for the full option list.

Commands

npx create-adsk          # init (interactive; default)
npx create-adsk update   # refresh from .adsk/config.json
npx create-adsk status   # profile + drift (exit 1 if drift)

Other useful flags: --dry-run, --scope project|global, --force-rules, --target <dir>. Pack docs: docs/engineering-methods.md, docs/product-value-loop.md.

Org rules: put company policy in .cursor/rules/org-*/ in the app — update does not overwrite those folders. Avoid --force-rules unless you intend to reset stock rules. Guide: docs/customizing-org-rules.md.

Two tools

Tool	Owns
npx skills	Skill folders in .agents/skills/
npx create-adsk	ADSK profile (skills + Cursor + .adsk/config.json)

Local kit path (optional)

Developing against a checkout instead of the published package:

npx --yes /path/to/agentic-development-starter-kit/packages/create-adsk

(npx --yes skips the npx install prompt for that path — not the same as create-adsk --yes.)

Develop in this monorepo

# from kit root
./scripts/prepare-create-adsk-snapshot.sh
cd packages/create-adsk && npm install && npm test && npm run build
node dist/cli.js --help

Releases (kit vs npm)

Kit GitHub releases (v*) and this npm package are independent.

You want…	Do this
Land code on GitHub	PR → green tier1 → merge to main
Kit changelog / GitHub Release	Merge the release-please PR when ready
New npx create-adsk on npm	Bump package.json version on main, then tag create-adsk-vX.Y.Z

Full workflow: docs/RELEASE.md. Publishing uses Trusted Publishing via .github/workflows/publish-create-adsk.yml.