name: local-init description: This skill should be used when the user wants to initialize a new local private repository in the current directory. This sets up the .local directory for versioning private AI configuration files separately from the main repository. allowed-tools: Bash(mkdir .local), Bash(cd .local), Bash(git init --bare)

Initialize Local Private Repository

Description of private versioning pattern: !echo $HOME/.claude/agent-docs/local-files-pattern.md

mkdir .local && git -C .local init --bare: !mkdir .local && git -C .local init --bare

Configure team repo: Make sure that .git/info/exclude is ignoring these private files:

code

# Example .git/info/exclude

# Ignore private repo
.local

# Ignore private files
.cursor
.claude
CLAUDE.md
dev-local
memory-bank

Configure private repo:

•Make sure that .local/info/exclude is ignoring all files from the team repo (/*) and is whitelisting the private files (!.cursor, etc)

Configure post-checkout hook that makes the private repo branch auto-follow the team repo branch:

bash

# .git/hooks/post-checkout

current_branch=$(git symbolic-ref --quiet --short HEAD 2>/dev/null)
echo "post-checkout hook, current branch is $current_branch"

if [ -n "$current_branch" ] && [ -d ".local" ] && command -v lgit >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo "lgit - Switching to or creating branch $current_branch in .local repo"
    lgit switch "$current_branch" 2>/dev/null \
        || lgit switch -c "$current_branch"
fi