init

A lightweight MCP server and CLI tool that bootstraps new projects with boilerplate files. It embeds template files (LICENSE, CONTRIBUTING.md) at compile time and writes them to a target directory, refusing to overwrite any existing files.

Installation

go build -o init .
cp init /usr/local/bin/init

Or with just:

just install

Usage

MCP Server

Register as an MCP server in your Claude configuration:

claude mcp add --transport stdio init -- /usr/local/bin/init

The server exposes a single init tool that accepts a directory parameter and writes the embedded template files there.

CLI

init --cli --directory /path/to/new/project

Returns JSON with the list of files created:

{"directory": "/path/to/new/project", "files_created": ["/path/to/new/project/LICENSE", "/path/to/new/project/CONTRIBUTING.md"]}

Customizing Templates

Edit the files in files/ and rebuild. The go:embed directives in main.go bundle them into the binary. To add new templates, add a new embedded file variable and append it to the embeddedFiles slice with the desired destination filename.