`/init`

A Claude Code slash command, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.

What it is

Initialize project with a CLAUDE.md guide. Set CLAUDE_CODE_NEW_INIT=1 for an interactive flow that also walks through skills, hooks, and personal memory files. If /init finds configuration from a coding agent that /import supports, it offers to carry it over with /import

Anthropic's own wording. Read off Commands, captured 2026-08-28.

Presence across releases

The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.

Changelog entries naming it

v2.1.246Project onboarding checklist gone
New projects no longer show the startup checklist suggesting you clone a repo or run /init.

named in this entry

Documentation pages

Commands reference table Claude Code CLI
Extend agents with skills mentions it Claude Code CLI
Manage multiple agents with agent view mentions it Claude Code CLI
Best practices for Claude Code mentions it Claude Code CLI
Champion kit mentions it Claude Code CLI
Communications kit mentions it Claude Code CLI
Development containers mentions it Claude Code CLI
Environment variables mentions it Claude Code CLI
Run Claude Code programmatically mentions it Claude Code CLI
How Claude Code works mentions it Claude Code CLI
Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP mentions it Claude Code CLI
How Claude remembers your project mentions it Claude Code CLI
Prompt library mentions it Claude Code CLI

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