CLI reference

Every npx shipflow-skills command and flag.

init

npx shipflow-skills init [target] [options]

Argument	Meaning
target	Directory to install into. Defaults to the current directory.

Option	Effect
--global	Install skills to ~/.claude/skills (Claude Code only — Copilot has no user-global skills location)
--claude-only	Project scope, but skip the Copilot (.github/skills) copy
--no-mcp	Skip seeding .mcp.json and .vscode/mcp.json (seeded by default otherwise)
-h, --help	Show help
-v, --version	Print the installed version

What init does, in order

1. Installs the 11 skills to .claude/skills/ (and .github/skills/, unless --claude-only or --global).
2. Seeds shipflow.config.md from the pristine example — only if it doesn’t already exist; re-running init never overwrites your edits.
3. Copies templates/ (the five render targets the skills fill in).
4. Seeds .mcp.json and .vscode/mcp.json from the mcp/ examples — unless --no-mcp, or --global (no target repo exists at global scope to put them in). Existing files are left untouched, never overwritten.

Bash equivalent

install.sh (needs Git Bash/WSL on Windows) supports the same flags with identical behavior — --global, --claude-only, --no-mcp — kept in lockstep with the npx CLI on purpose. See Installation for both.