Skill: Scaffold Project

Description

Creates the standard project folder structure from a composition spec. Produces the repo skeleton that all other skills and personas operate within: CLAUDE.md, .claude/ agent/skill/hook directories, ai/ context and output directories, README, and per-persona output folders. This is the structural foundation step in the ScribeVault pipeline (Select --> Compose --> Compile --> Scaffold --> Seed --> Export).

Trigger

•Invoked by the /scaffold-project slash command.
•Called programmatically by src/ during pipeline execution.
•Runs automatically as part of the project generation pipeline.

Inputs

Input	Type	Required	Description
composition_spec	YAML file path	Yes	The composition defining project identity, personas, stacks, and hooks
output_dir	Directory path	No	Where to create the project; defaults to `{output_root}/{slug}` from the spec

Process

•Parse the composition spec -- Load and validate the YAML against the CompositionSpec model.
•Create root directory -- Create {output_dir}/ if it does not exist.
•Generate CLAUDE.md -- Produce the project's top-level Claude Code constitution listing team members, stacks, hooks posture, and project structure.
•Generate README.md -- Create a minimal README linking to CLAUDE.md.
•Create .claude/ directories -- Create agents/, skills/, commands/, and hooks/ under .claude/.
•Generate agent wrappers -- For each persona with include_agent: true, write a thin .claude/agents/{persona}.md that references the compiled member prompt path and output directory.
•Create ai/ directories -- Create context/, generated/members/, team/, tasks/, and outputs/ under ai/.
•Generate project context docs -- Write ai/context/project.md (project overview with stacks, personas, hooks detail, team responsibilities, conventions), ai/context/stack.md, and ai/context/decisions.md.
•Write composition snapshot -- Serialize the composition spec to ai/team/composition.yml for reproducibility.
•Create per-persona output directories -- For each persona, create ai/outputs/{persona}/ with a README explaining the directory's purpose.

Outputs

Output	Type	Description
CLAUDE.md	File	Top-level project constitution for Claude Code
README.md	File	Project README with pointer to CLAUDE.md
.claude/agents/*.md	Files	Thin agent wrappers for each active persona
ai/context/*.md	Files	Project context, stack context, and decisions documents
ai/team/composition.yml	File	Serialized composition spec snapshot
ai/outputs/*/README.md	Files	Per-persona output directory with README

Quality Criteria

•Every persona with include_agent: true has a corresponding .claude/agents/{id}.md file.
•Every persona has an ai/outputs/{id}/ directory with a README.
•CLAUDE.md lists all personas, stacks, and the hooks posture.
•ai/context/project.md contains team responsibilities and stack conventions.
•ai/team/composition.yml round-trips through the CompositionSpec model without data loss.
•All directory structures are created regardless of whether subsequent pipeline stages run.

Error Conditions

Error	Cause	Resolution
`InvalidCompositionSpec`	YAML fails schema validation	Fix the composition YAML to match the CompositionSpec model
`OutputDirNotWritable`	Cannot create the output directory	Check filesystem permissions or choose a different path
`OutputDirExists`	Output directory already contains files	Use `--force` to overwrite or choose a clean directory

Dependencies

•src/ -- CompositionSpec data contract
•src/ -- reference implementation
•No other skills are required before scaffolding; this is the first structural step