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Brain bootstrap
Stand up a brain in any repo in one paste. The portable prompt that creates the full .claude/brain/ scaffolding - every state file, skill, and CLAUDE.md rule - wherever an LLM is editing your code. Works in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, anywhere.
See it in motion
Where to find it
- Desktop:
http://localhost:4000/, then Manage → Brain bootstrap in the sidebar. - Keyboard: ⌘ K, then type “Brain bootstrap”.
- On disk:
.claude/brain/brain-bootstrap-prompt.md
What it does for you
Zero-to-brain in one paste.Open the page, copy the prompt, paste it into a fresh chat with your editor's LLM. It creates CLAUDE.md, every brain file, every skill stub - calibrated to the repo it's pasted in.
Portable across every LLM editor.Same prompt works in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf. The brain convention is plain markdown; no tooling required to honor it.
Self-updating.The prompt itself lives in the brain. As the brain convention evolves the prompt evolves with it - every new repo gets the current version.
Configure
Nothing - the prompt is a single markdown file. Edit .claude/brain/brain-bootstrap-prompt.md if you want to tailor what the bootstrap creates for your house style.
Use it well
Best on a fresh repo, or a stale one where the brain has rotted. Paste at the start of a new chat (clean context) and let the LLM walk the repo and write each file. For an existing brain, prefer surgical edits - don't bootstrap over working state.