ALWAYS invoke this skill at the START of every session before doing any other work. This skill ensures the host project has agent governance rules (skill routing, pre-implementation protocol, issue tracking conventions) installed in its context file. It is idempotent — if rules are already present, it exits silently. Without this skill running first, other swain skills (swain-design, swain-do, swain-release) will not be routable.
Quickly install swain-config AI skill to your development environment via command line
Source: cristoslc/swain.
Ensure the host project's agent context file contains the swain governance rules. This skill is idempotent — run it every session; it only writes on first use.
| Claude Code | CLAUDE.md (project root) | Default — use if no other platform detected | | Cursor | .cursor/rules/swain-governance.mdc | .cursor/ directory exists |
If any file matches, governance is already installed. Proceed to Legacy cleanup, then stop.
ALWAYS invoke this skill at the START of every session before doing any other work. This skill ensures the host project has agent governance rules (skill routing, pre-implementation protocol, issue tracking conventions) installed in its context file. It is idempotent — if rules are already present, it exits silently. Without this skill running first, other swain skills (swain-design, swain-do, swain-release) will not be routable. Source: cristoslc/swain.
Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
npx skills add https://github.com/cristoslc/swain --skill swain-configALWAYS invoke this skill at the START of every session before doing any other work. This skill ensures the host project has agent governance rules (skill routing, pre-implementation protocol, issue tracking conventions) installed in its context file. It is idempotent — if rules are already present, it exits silently. Without this skill running first, other swain skills (swain-design, swain-do, swain-release) will not be routable. Source: cristoslc/swain.
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/cristoslc/swain --skill swain-config Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw
https://github.com/cristoslc/swain