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Expand Up@@ -51,11 +51,13 @@ clerk init
--framework <name> Framework to set up (skips auto-detection)
--prompt Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk
--yes Skip confirmation prompts
--no-skills Skip the optional agent skills install prompt
Examples:
$ clerk init Auto-detect framework and set up Clerk
$ clerk init --framework next Set up for Next.js (skips detection)
$ clerk init --prompt Output a setup prompt for an AI agent
$ clerk init -y Skip all confirmation prompts
$ clerk init --no-skills Skip the agent skills install prompt

clerk auth login Log in via browser (OAuth)
clerk auth logout Remove stored credentials
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Expand Up@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ clerk init --framework next
clerk init --prompt
clerk init -y
clerk init --yes
clerk init --no-skills
```

## Options
Expand All@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ clerk init --yes
| `--framework <name>` | Framework to set up (skips auto-detection). Valid values: `next`, `astro`, `nuxt`, `tanstack-start`, `react-router`, `vue`, `expo`, `react`, `express`, `fastify` |
| `--prompt` | Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk, then exit |
| `-y, --yes` | Skip confirmation prompts |
| `--no-skills` | Skip the optional agent skills install prompt at the end of init |

## Agent Mode

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ When running in agent mode (`--mode agent` or non-TTY), outputs a framework-spec
14. Prints a summary of created, modified, and skipped files with recommendations
15. **Authenticated mode**: pulls development instance API keys via `clerk env pull`
16. **Keyless mode**: prints instructions for keyless development and how to connect a Clerk account later
17. Optionally installs framework-specific Clerk agent skills via `npx skills add` (see [Agent skills install](#agent-skills-install))

## Framework Detection

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -148,6 +151,30 @@ Nuxt's module system auto-configures middleware and auto-imports components.
| MODIFY | `src/router/index.ts` | Add sign-in and sign-up routes (if router exists) |
| MODIFY | `.env` | Add sign-in/sign-up route env vars (VITE\_ prefix) |

## Agent skills install

After scaffolding (and after env keys are pulled or keyless instructions are printed), `clerk init` offers to install Clerk's framework-specific agent skills from [`clerk/skills`](https://github.com/clerk/skills) via `npx skills add`. This step is optional and non-fatal: if `npx` is missing or the install command exits non-zero, init prints a yellow warning with the manual install command and still exits successfully.

- **Human mode**: prompts `Install agent skills? (...)` defaulting to yes. Pass `--no-skills` to suppress the prompt entirely, or `-y/--yes` to accept it without confirmation.
- **Agent mode / `--prompt`**: `clerk init` exits early before the skills step runs (see the `if (options.prompt || isAgent()) { ... return }` branch in [`index.ts`](./index.ts)), so nothing is installed. Agent users should run `npx skills add clerk/skills` manually, or have their agent do it.

The base skills `clerk` and `clerk-setup` are always included. The detected framework dependency adds a matching skill:

| Framework dep | Added skill |
| ----------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| `next` | `clerk-nextjs-patterns` |
| `react` | `clerk-react-patterns` |
| `react-router` | `clerk-react-router-patterns` |
| `vue` | `clerk-vue-patterns` |
| `nuxt` | `clerk-nuxt-patterns` |
| `astro` | `clerk-astro-patterns` |
| `@tanstack/react-start` | `clerk-tanstack-patterns` |
| `expo` | `clerk-expo-patterns` |
| `express` | `clerk-backend-api` |
| `fastify` | `clerk-backend-api` |

Implementation lives in [`skills.ts`](./skills.ts). Note that the E2E fixture setup runs `clerk init --yes --no-skills` because the skill templates reference framework-generated types (e.g. React Router's `./+types/root`) that don't exist outside a real app directory and would break the fixture's `tsc` step.

## API Endpoints

See [auth/README.md](../auth/README.md), [link/README.md](../link/README.md), and [env/README.md](../env/README.md) for the API endpoints used by each step.
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Expand Up@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import * as previewMod from "./preview.ts";
import * as formatMod from "./format.ts";
import * as scanMod from "./scan.ts";
import * as heuristics from "./heuristics.ts";
import * as skillsMod from "./skills.ts";
import { init } from "./index.ts";

describe("init command", () => {
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spyOn(heuristics, "writePlan").mockResolvedValue([]),
spyOn(heuristics, "checkGitDirty").mockResolvedValue(false),
spyOn(heuristics, "printOutro").mockReturnValue(undefined),
spyOn(skillsMod, "installSkills").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
spyOn(linkMod, "link").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
spyOn(pullMod, "pull").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
];
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Expand Up@@ -72,13 +72,27 @@ export async function installSkills(
const interactive = isHuman() && !skipPrompt;
const args = buildSkillsArgs(skills, interactive);

const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
cwd,
stdin: "inherit",
stdout: "inherit",
stderr: "inherit",
});
const exitCode = await proc.exited;
// Skills are optional — soft-fail with a warning rather than tearing down
// a successful scaffold. Bun.spawn can throw synchronously when the binary
// is missing (e.g. `npx` not on PATH on a minimal CI image), so the
// try/catch is needed in addition to the exit code check below.
let exitCode: number;
try {
const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
cwd,
stdin: "inherit",
stdout: "inherit",
stderr: "inherit",
});
exitCode = await proc.exited;
} catch {
console.log(
yellow(
`\nCould not run \`npx skills add\`. You can install manually later: npx skills add ${SKILLS_SOURCE}`,
),
);
return;
}

if (exitCode !== 0) {
console.log(
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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Add copy buttons to all 
 blocks\n(function() {\n function addCopyButtons() {\n document.querySelectorAll('pre code').forEach(function(codeBlock) {\n if (codeBlock.parentElement.hasAttribute('data-copy-added')) return;\n codeBlock.parentElement.setAttribute('data-copy-added', 'true');\n \n var btn = document.createElement('button');\n btn.textContent = 'Copy';\n btn.style.cssText = 'position:absolute;top:4px;right:4px;padding:2px 8px;font-size:11px;background:#4ecdc4;border:none;border-radius:4px;color:#1a1a2e;cursor:pointer;opacity:0.7;transition:opacity 0.2s;';\n btn.onmouseover = function() { this.style.opacity = '1'; };\n btn.onmouseout = function() { this.style.opacity = '0.7'; };\n btn.onclick = function() {\n navigator.clipboard.writeText(codeBlock.textContent).then(function() {\n btn.textContent = 'Copied!';\n setTimeout(function() { btn.textContent = 'Copy'; }, 1500);\n });\n };\n codeBlock.parentElement.style.position = 'relative';\n codeBlock.parentElement.appendChild(btn);\n });\n }\n \n addCopyButtons();\n \n // Re-run on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(addCopyButtons);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Add Copy Buttons to Code Blocks");
}
} catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Add Copy Buttons to Code Blocks]', __e); }
})();
(function(){
try {
var __m = "github.com";
var __re = new RegExp('^' + "github\\.com" + '

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Expand Up@@ -51,11 +51,13 @@ clerk init
 --framework <name> Framework to set up (skips auto-detection)
 --prompt Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk
 --yes Skip confirmation prompts
 --no-skills Skip the optional agent skills install prompt
 Examples:
 $ clerk init Auto-detect framework and set up Clerk
 $ clerk init --framework next Set up for Next.js (skips detection)
 $ clerk init --prompt Output a setup prompt for an AI agent
 $ clerk init -y Skip all confirmation prompts
 $ clerk init --no-skills Skip the agent skills install prompt

clerk auth login Log in via browser (OAuth)
clerk auth logout Remove stored credentials
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Expand Up@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ clerk init --framework next
clerk init --prompt
clerk init -y
clerk init --yes
clerk init --no-skills
```

## Options
Expand All@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ clerk init --yes
| `--framework <name>` | Framework to set up (skips auto-detection). Valid values: `next`, `astro`, `nuxt`, `tanstack-start`, `react-router`, `vue`, `expo`, `react`, `express`, `fastify` |
| `--prompt` | Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk, then exit |
| `-y, --yes` | Skip confirmation prompts |
| `--no-skills` | Skip the optional agent skills install prompt at the end of init |

## Agent Mode

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ When running in agent mode (`--mode agent` or non-TTY), outputs a framework-spec
14. Prints a summary of created, modified, and skipped files with recommendations
15. **Authenticated mode**: pulls development instance API keys via `clerk env pull`
16. **Keyless mode**: prints instructions for keyless development and how to connect a Clerk account later
17. Optionally installs framework-specific Clerk agent skills via `npx skills add` (see [Agent skills install](#agent-skills-install))

## Framework Detection

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -148,6 +151,30 @@ Nuxt's module system auto-configures middleware and auto-imports components.
| MODIFY | `src/router/index.ts` | Add sign-in and sign-up routes (if router exists) |
| MODIFY | `.env` | Add sign-in/sign-up route env vars (VITE\_ prefix) |

## Agent skills install

After scaffolding (and after env keys are pulled or keyless instructions are printed), `clerk init` offers to install Clerk's framework-specific agent skills from [`clerk/skills`](https://github.com/clerk/skills) via `npx skills add`. This step is optional and non-fatal: if `npx` is missing or the install command exits non-zero, init prints a yellow warning with the manual install command and still exits successfully.

- **Human mode**: prompts `Install agent skills? (...)` defaulting to yes. Pass `--no-skills` to suppress the prompt entirely, or `-y/--yes` to accept it without confirmation.
- **Agent mode / `--prompt`**: `clerk init` exits early before the skills step runs (see the `if (options.prompt || isAgent()) { ... return }` branch in [`index.ts`](./index.ts)), so nothing is installed. Agent users should run `npx skills add clerk/skills` manually, or have their agent do it.

The base skills `clerk` and `clerk-setup` are always included. The detected framework dependency adds a matching skill:

| Framework dep | Added skill |
| ----------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| `next` | `clerk-nextjs-patterns` |
| `react` | `clerk-react-patterns` |
| `react-router` | `clerk-react-router-patterns` |
| `vue` | `clerk-vue-patterns` |
| `nuxt` | `clerk-nuxt-patterns` |
| `astro` | `clerk-astro-patterns` |
| `@tanstack/react-start` | `clerk-tanstack-patterns` |
| `expo` | `clerk-expo-patterns` |
| `express` | `clerk-backend-api` |
| `fastify` | `clerk-backend-api` |

Implementation lives in [`skills.ts`](./skills.ts). Note that the E2E fixture setup runs `clerk init --yes --no-skills` because the skill templates reference framework-generated types (e.g. React Router's `./+types/root`) that don't exist outside a real app directory and would break the fixture's `tsc` step.

## API Endpoints

See [auth/README.md](../auth/README.md), [link/README.md](../link/README.md), and [env/README.md](../env/README.md) for the API endpoints used by each step.

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Expand Up@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import * as previewMod from "./preview.ts";
import * as formatMod from "./format.ts";
import * as scanMod from "./scan.ts";
import * as heuristics from "./heuristics.ts";
import * as skillsMod from "./skills.ts";
import { init } from "./index.ts";

describe("init command", () => {
Expand DownExpand Up@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ describe("init command", () => {
 spyOn(heuristics, "writePlan").mockResolvedValue([]),
 spyOn(heuristics, "checkGitDirty").mockResolvedValue(false),
 spyOn(heuristics, "printOutro").mockReturnValue(undefined),
 spyOn(skillsMod, "installSkills").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 spyOn(linkMod, "link").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 spyOn(pullMod, "pull").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 ];
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Expand Up@@ -72,13 +72,27 @@ export async function installSkills(
 const interactive = isHuman() && !skipPrompt;
 const args = buildSkillsArgs(skills, interactive);

 const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
 cwd,
 stdin: "inherit",
 stdout: "inherit",
 stderr: "inherit",
 });
 const exitCode = await proc.exited;
 // Skills are optional — soft-fail with a warning rather than tearing down
 // a successful scaffold. Bun.spawn can throw synchronously when the binary
 // is missing (e.g. `npx` not on PATH on a minimal CI image), so the
 // try/catch is needed in addition to the exit code check below.
 let exitCode: number;
 try {
 const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
 cwd,
 stdin: "inherit",
 stdout: "inherit",
 stderr: "inherit",
 });
 exitCode = await proc.exited;
 } catch {
 console.log(
 yellow(
 `\nCould not run \`npx skills add\`. You can install manually later: npx skills add ${SKILLS_SOURCE}`,
 ),
 );
 return;
 }

 if (exitCode !== 0) {
 console.log(
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, 'i');
if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) {
injectUserscript("// Force GitHub README to respect dark mode\n(function() {\n var style = document.createElement('style');\n style.textContent = '\n .markdown-body {\n color-scheme: dark light;\n }\n .markdown-body pre { background: #161b22 !important; }\n .markdown-body code { background: rgba(110, 118, 129, 0.4) !important; }\n .markdown-body table th, .markdown-body table td { border-color: #30363d !important; }\n .markdown-body img { background: #0d1117; }\n .markdown-body blockquote { border-left-color: #8b949e; }\n .markdown-body hr { border-color: #30363d; }\n ';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n})();", "GitHub Dark Mode README Fix");
}
} catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:GitHub Dark Mode README Fix]', __e); }
})();
(function(){
try {
var __m = "*";
var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '

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Expand Up@@ -51,11 +51,13 @@ clerk init
 --framework <name> Framework to set up (skips auto-detection)
 --prompt Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk
 --yes Skip confirmation prompts
 --no-skills Skip the optional agent skills install prompt
 Examples:
 $ clerk init Auto-detect framework and set up Clerk
 $ clerk init --framework next Set up for Next.js (skips detection)
 $ clerk init --prompt Output a setup prompt for an AI agent
 $ clerk init -y Skip all confirmation prompts
 $ clerk init --no-skills Skip the agent skills install prompt

clerk auth login Log in via browser (OAuth)
clerk auth logout Remove stored credentials
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Expand Up@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ clerk init --framework next
clerk init --prompt
clerk init -y
clerk init --yes
clerk init --no-skills
```

## Options
Expand All@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ clerk init --yes
| `--framework <name>` | Framework to set up (skips auto-detection). Valid values: `next`, `astro`, `nuxt`, `tanstack-start`, `react-router`, `vue`, `expo`, `react`, `express`, `fastify` |
| `--prompt` | Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk, then exit |
| `-y, --yes` | Skip confirmation prompts |
| `--no-skills` | Skip the optional agent skills install prompt at the end of init |

## Agent Mode

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ When running in agent mode (`--mode agent` or non-TTY), outputs a framework-spec
14. Prints a summary of created, modified, and skipped files with recommendations
15. **Authenticated mode**: pulls development instance API keys via `clerk env pull`
16. **Keyless mode**: prints instructions for keyless development and how to connect a Clerk account later
17. Optionally installs framework-specific Clerk agent skills via `npx skills add` (see [Agent skills install](#agent-skills-install))

## Framework Detection

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -148,6 +151,30 @@ Nuxt's module system auto-configures middleware and auto-imports components.
| MODIFY | `src/router/index.ts` | Add sign-in and sign-up routes (if router exists) |
| MODIFY | `.env` | Add sign-in/sign-up route env vars (VITE\_ prefix) |

## Agent skills install

After scaffolding (and after env keys are pulled or keyless instructions are printed), `clerk init` offers to install Clerk's framework-specific agent skills from [`clerk/skills`](https://github.com/clerk/skills) via `npx skills add`. This step is optional and non-fatal: if `npx` is missing or the install command exits non-zero, init prints a yellow warning with the manual install command and still exits successfully.

- **Human mode**: prompts `Install agent skills? (...)` defaulting to yes. Pass `--no-skills` to suppress the prompt entirely, or `-y/--yes` to accept it without confirmation.
- **Agent mode / `--prompt`**: `clerk init` exits early before the skills step runs (see the `if (options.prompt || isAgent()) { ... return }` branch in [`index.ts`](./index.ts)), so nothing is installed. Agent users should run `npx skills add clerk/skills` manually, or have their agent do it.

The base skills `clerk` and `clerk-setup` are always included. The detected framework dependency adds a matching skill:

| Framework dep | Added skill |
| ----------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| `next` | `clerk-nextjs-patterns` |
| `react` | `clerk-react-patterns` |
| `react-router` | `clerk-react-router-patterns` |
| `vue` | `clerk-vue-patterns` |
| `nuxt` | `clerk-nuxt-patterns` |
| `astro` | `clerk-astro-patterns` |
| `@tanstack/react-start` | `clerk-tanstack-patterns` |
| `expo` | `clerk-expo-patterns` |
| `express` | `clerk-backend-api` |
| `fastify` | `clerk-backend-api` |

Implementation lives in [`skills.ts`](./skills.ts). Note that the E2E fixture setup runs `clerk init --yes --no-skills` because the skill templates reference framework-generated types (e.g. React Router's `./+types/root`) that don't exist outside a real app directory and would break the fixture's `tsc` step.

## API Endpoints

See [auth/README.md](../auth/README.md), [link/README.md](../link/README.md), and [env/README.md](../env/README.md) for the API endpoints used by each step.

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Expand Up@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import * as previewMod from "./preview.ts";
import * as formatMod from "./format.ts";
import * as scanMod from "./scan.ts";
import * as heuristics from "./heuristics.ts";
import * as skillsMod from "./skills.ts";
import { init } from "./index.ts";

describe("init command", () => {
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 spyOn(heuristics, "writePlan").mockResolvedValue([]),
 spyOn(heuristics, "checkGitDirty").mockResolvedValue(false),
 spyOn(heuristics, "printOutro").mockReturnValue(undefined),
 spyOn(skillsMod, "installSkills").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 spyOn(linkMod, "link").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 spyOn(pullMod, "pull").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 ];
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Expand Up@@ -72,13 +72,27 @@ export async function installSkills(
 const interactive = isHuman() && !skipPrompt;
 const args = buildSkillsArgs(skills, interactive);

 const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
 cwd,
 stdin: "inherit",
 stdout: "inherit",
 stderr: "inherit",
 });
 const exitCode = await proc.exited;
 // Skills are optional — soft-fail with a warning rather than tearing down
 // a successful scaffold. Bun.spawn can throw synchronously when the binary
 // is missing (e.g. `npx` not on PATH on a minimal CI image), so the
 // try/catch is needed in addition to the exit code check below.
 let exitCode: number;
 try {
 const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
 cwd,
 stdin: "inherit",
 stdout: "inherit",
 stderr: "inherit",
 });
 exitCode = await proc.exited;
 } catch {
 console.log(
 yellow(
 `\nCould not run \`npx skills add\`. You can install manually later: npx skills add ${SKILLS_SOURCE}`,
 ),
 );
 return;
 }

 if (exitCode !== 0) {
 console.log(
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, 'i');
if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) {
injectUserscript("// Highlight search terms from Google/DuckDuckGo/Bing referrer\n(function() {\n var ref = document.referrer;\n var terms = [];\n \n if (ref.includes('google.com') || ref.includes('duckduckgo.com') || ref.includes('bing.com')) {\n var url = new URL(ref);\n var q = url.searchParams.get('q') || url.searchParams.get('p');\n if (q) {\n terms = q.split(/\\s+/).filter(function(t) { return t.length > 2; });\n }\n }\n \n if (terms.length === 0) return;\n \n var style = document.createElement('style');\n style.textContent = '.userscript-highlight { background: #fbbf24; color: #1a1a2e; padding: 1px 3px; border-radius: 2px; }';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n \n function highlight(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 3) { // text node\n var text = node.textContent;\n var found = false;\n terms.forEach(function(term) {\n var regex = new RegExp('(' + term.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\\]\\\\]/g, '\\\\') + ')', 'gi');\n if (regex.test(text)) {\n found = true;\n var frag = document.createDocumentFragment();\n var parts = text.split(regex);\n parts.forEach(function(part, i) {\n if (i % 2 === 0) {\n frag.appendChild(document.createTextNode(part));\n } else {\n var span = document.createElement('span');\n span.className = 'userscript-highlight';\n span.textContent = part;\n frag.appendChild(span);\n }\n });\n node.parentNode.replaceChild(frag, node);\n }\n });\n } else if (node.nodeType === 1 && node.childNodes) { // element\n var skipTags = ['SCRIPT', 'STYLE', 'NOSCRIPT', 'TEXTAREA', 'INPUT', 'SELECT'];\n if (!skipTags.includes(node.tagName)) {\n Array.from(node.childNodes).forEach(highlight);\n }\n }\n }\n \n highlight(document.body);\n \n // Re-highlight on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n mutations.forEach(function(m) {\n m.addedNodes.forEach(function(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 1 || node.nodeType === 3) highlight(node);\n });\n });\n });\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Highlight Search Terms");
}
} catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Highlight Search Terms]', __e); }
})();
(function(){
try {
var __m = "*";
var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '

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Expand Up@@ -51,11 +51,13 @@ clerk init
 --framework <name> Framework to set up (skips auto-detection)
 --prompt Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk
 --yes Skip confirmation prompts
 --no-skills Skip the optional agent skills install prompt
 Examples:
 $ clerk init Auto-detect framework and set up Clerk
 $ clerk init --framework next Set up for Next.js (skips detection)
 $ clerk init --prompt Output a setup prompt for an AI agent
 $ clerk init -y Skip all confirmation prompts
 $ clerk init --no-skills Skip the agent skills install prompt

clerk auth login Log in via browser (OAuth)
clerk auth logout Remove stored credentials
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Expand Up@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ clerk init --framework next
clerk init --prompt
clerk init -y
clerk init --yes
clerk init --no-skills
```

## Options
Expand All@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ clerk init --yes
| `--framework <name>` | Framework to set up (skips auto-detection). Valid values: `next`, `astro`, `nuxt`, `tanstack-start`, `react-router`, `vue`, `expo`, `react`, `express`, `fastify` |
| `--prompt` | Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk, then exit |
| `-y, --yes` | Skip confirmation prompts |
| `--no-skills` | Skip the optional agent skills install prompt at the end of init |

## Agent Mode

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ When running in agent mode (`--mode agent` or non-TTY), outputs a framework-spec
14. Prints a summary of created, modified, and skipped files with recommendations
15. **Authenticated mode**: pulls development instance API keys via `clerk env pull`
16. **Keyless mode**: prints instructions for keyless development and how to connect a Clerk account later
17. Optionally installs framework-specific Clerk agent skills via `npx skills add` (see [Agent skills install](#agent-skills-install))

## Framework Detection

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -148,6 +151,30 @@ Nuxt's module system auto-configures middleware and auto-imports components.
| MODIFY | `src/router/index.ts` | Add sign-in and sign-up routes (if router exists) |
| MODIFY | `.env` | Add sign-in/sign-up route env vars (VITE\_ prefix) |

## Agent skills install

After scaffolding (and after env keys are pulled or keyless instructions are printed), `clerk init` offers to install Clerk's framework-specific agent skills from [`clerk/skills`](https://github.com/clerk/skills) via `npx skills add`. This step is optional and non-fatal: if `npx` is missing or the install command exits non-zero, init prints a yellow warning with the manual install command and still exits successfully.

- **Human mode**: prompts `Install agent skills? (...)` defaulting to yes. Pass `--no-skills` to suppress the prompt entirely, or `-y/--yes` to accept it without confirmation.
- **Agent mode / `--prompt`**: `clerk init` exits early before the skills step runs (see the `if (options.prompt || isAgent()) { ... return }` branch in [`index.ts`](./index.ts)), so nothing is installed. Agent users should run `npx skills add clerk/skills` manually, or have their agent do it.

The base skills `clerk` and `clerk-setup` are always included. The detected framework dependency adds a matching skill:

| Framework dep | Added skill |
| ----------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| `next` | `clerk-nextjs-patterns` |
| `react` | `clerk-react-patterns` |
| `react-router` | `clerk-react-router-patterns` |
| `vue` | `clerk-vue-patterns` |
| `nuxt` | `clerk-nuxt-patterns` |
| `astro` | `clerk-astro-patterns` |
| `@tanstack/react-start` | `clerk-tanstack-patterns` |
| `expo` | `clerk-expo-patterns` |
| `express` | `clerk-backend-api` |
| `fastify` | `clerk-backend-api` |

Implementation lives in [`skills.ts`](./skills.ts). Note that the E2E fixture setup runs `clerk init --yes --no-skills` because the skill templates reference framework-generated types (e.g. React Router's `./+types/root`) that don't exist outside a real app directory and would break the fixture's `tsc` step.

## API Endpoints

See [auth/README.md](../auth/README.md), [link/README.md](../link/README.md), and [env/README.md](../env/README.md) for the API endpoints used by each step.

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Expand Up@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import * as previewMod from "./preview.ts";
import * as formatMod from "./format.ts";
import * as scanMod from "./scan.ts";
import * as heuristics from "./heuristics.ts";
import * as skillsMod from "./skills.ts";
import { init } from "./index.ts";

describe("init command", () => {
Expand DownExpand Up@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ describe("init command", () => {
 spyOn(heuristics, "writePlan").mockResolvedValue([]),
 spyOn(heuristics, "checkGitDirty").mockResolvedValue(false),
 spyOn(heuristics, "printOutro").mockReturnValue(undefined),
 spyOn(skillsMod, "installSkills").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 spyOn(linkMod, "link").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 spyOn(pullMod, "pull").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 ];
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Expand Up@@ -72,13 +72,27 @@ export async function installSkills(
 const interactive = isHuman() && !skipPrompt;
 const args = buildSkillsArgs(skills, interactive);

 const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
 cwd,
 stdin: "inherit",
 stdout: "inherit",
 stderr: "inherit",
 });
 const exitCode = await proc.exited;
 // Skills are optional — soft-fail with a warning rather than tearing down
 // a successful scaffold. Bun.spawn can throw synchronously when the binary
 // is missing (e.g. `npx` not on PATH on a minimal CI image), so the
 // try/catch is needed in addition to the exit code check below.
 let exitCode: number;
 try {
 const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
 cwd,
 stdin: "inherit",
 stdout: "inherit",
 stderr: "inherit",
 });
 exitCode = await proc.exited;
 } catch {
 console.log(
 yellow(
 `\nCould not run \`npx skills add\`. You can install manually later: npx skills add ${SKILLS_SOURCE}`,
 ),
 );
 return;
 }

 if (exitCode !== 0) {
 console.log(
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injectUserscript("// Strip utm_, fbclid, gclid, etc. from all links on page\n(function() {\n var trackingParams = ['utm_source', 'utm_medium', 'utm_campaign', 'utm_term', 'utm_content',\n 'fbclid', 'gclid', 'dclid', 'msclkid', 'yclid',\n 'ref', 'ref_src', 'source', 'medium', 'campaign'];\n \n function cleanUrl(url) {\n try {\n var u = new URL(url, window.location.origin);\n var changed = false;\n trackingParams.forEach(function(p) {\n if (u.searchParams.has(p)) {\n u.searchParams.delete(p);\n changed = true;\n }\n });\n return changed ? u.toString() : url;\n } catch (e) {\n return url;\n }\n }\n \n function cleanLinks() {\n document.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach(function(a) {\n var clean = cleanUrl(a.href);\n if (clean !== a.href) a.href = clean;\n });\n }\n \n cleanLinks();\n \n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n mutations.forEach(function(m) {\n m.addedNodes.forEach(function(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 1) {\n if (node.tagName === 'A') cleanLinks();\n node.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach(function(a) {\n var clean = cleanUrl(a.href);\n if (clean !== a.href) a.href = clean;\n });\n }\n });\n });\n });\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Remove Tracking Parameters from Links");
}
} catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Remove Tracking Parameters from Links]', __e); }
})();
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try {
var __m = "youtube.com";
var __re = new RegExp('^' + "youtube\\.com" + '

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Expand Up@@ -51,11 +51,13 @@ clerk init
 --framework <name> Framework to set up (skips auto-detection)
 --prompt Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk
 --yes Skip confirmation prompts
 --no-skills Skip the optional agent skills install prompt
 Examples:
 $ clerk init Auto-detect framework and set up Clerk
 $ clerk init --framework next Set up for Next.js (skips detection)
 $ clerk init --prompt Output a setup prompt for an AI agent
 $ clerk init -y Skip all confirmation prompts
 $ clerk init --no-skills Skip the agent skills install prompt

clerk auth login Log in via browser (OAuth)
clerk auth logout Remove stored credentials
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Expand Up@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ clerk init --framework next
clerk init --prompt
clerk init -y
clerk init --yes
clerk init --no-skills
```

## Options
Expand All@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ clerk init --yes
| `--framework <name>` | Framework to set up (skips auto-detection). Valid values: `next`, `astro`, `nuxt`, `tanstack-start`, `react-router`, `vue`, `expo`, `react`, `express`, `fastify` |
| `--prompt` | Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk, then exit |
| `-y, --yes` | Skip confirmation prompts |
| `--no-skills` | Skip the optional agent skills install prompt at the end of init |

## Agent Mode

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ When running in agent mode (`--mode agent` or non-TTY), outputs a framework-spec
14. Prints a summary of created, modified, and skipped files with recommendations
15. **Authenticated mode**: pulls development instance API keys via `clerk env pull`
16. **Keyless mode**: prints instructions for keyless development and how to connect a Clerk account later
17. Optionally installs framework-specific Clerk agent skills via `npx skills add` (see [Agent skills install](#agent-skills-install))

## Framework Detection

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -148,6 +151,30 @@ Nuxt's module system auto-configures middleware and auto-imports components.
| MODIFY | `src/router/index.ts` | Add sign-in and sign-up routes (if router exists) |
| MODIFY | `.env` | Add sign-in/sign-up route env vars (VITE\_ prefix) |

## Agent skills install

After scaffolding (and after env keys are pulled or keyless instructions are printed), `clerk init` offers to install Clerk's framework-specific agent skills from [`clerk/skills`](https://github.com/clerk/skills) via `npx skills add`. This step is optional and non-fatal: if `npx` is missing or the install command exits non-zero, init prints a yellow warning with the manual install command and still exits successfully.

- **Human mode**: prompts `Install agent skills? (...)` defaulting to yes. Pass `--no-skills` to suppress the prompt entirely, or `-y/--yes` to accept it without confirmation.
- **Agent mode / `--prompt`**: `clerk init` exits early before the skills step runs (see the `if (options.prompt || isAgent()) { ... return }` branch in [`index.ts`](./index.ts)), so nothing is installed. Agent users should run `npx skills add clerk/skills` manually, or have their agent do it.

The base skills `clerk` and `clerk-setup` are always included. The detected framework dependency adds a matching skill:

| Framework dep | Added skill |
| ----------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| `next` | `clerk-nextjs-patterns` |
| `react` | `clerk-react-patterns` |
| `react-router` | `clerk-react-router-patterns` |
| `vue` | `clerk-vue-patterns` |
| `nuxt` | `clerk-nuxt-patterns` |
| `astro` | `clerk-astro-patterns` |
| `@tanstack/react-start` | `clerk-tanstack-patterns` |
| `expo` | `clerk-expo-patterns` |
| `express` | `clerk-backend-api` |
| `fastify` | `clerk-backend-api` |

Implementation lives in [`skills.ts`](./skills.ts). Note that the E2E fixture setup runs `clerk init --yes --no-skills` because the skill templates reference framework-generated types (e.g. React Router's `./+types/root`) that don't exist outside a real app directory and would break the fixture's `tsc` step.

## API Endpoints

See [auth/README.md](../auth/README.md), [link/README.md](../link/README.md), and [env/README.md](../env/README.md) for the API endpoints used by each step.

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Expand Up@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import * as previewMod from "./preview.ts";
import * as formatMod from "./format.ts";
import * as scanMod from "./scan.ts";
import * as heuristics from "./heuristics.ts";
import * as skillsMod from "./skills.ts";
import { init } from "./index.ts";

describe("init command", () => {
Expand DownExpand Up@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ describe("init command", () => {
 spyOn(heuristics, "writePlan").mockResolvedValue([]),
 spyOn(heuristics, "checkGitDirty").mockResolvedValue(false),
 spyOn(heuristics, "printOutro").mockReturnValue(undefined),
 spyOn(skillsMod, "installSkills").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 spyOn(linkMod, "link").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 spyOn(pullMod, "pull").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 ];
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Expand Up@@ -72,13 +72,27 @@ export async function installSkills(
 const interactive = isHuman() && !skipPrompt;
 const args = buildSkillsArgs(skills, interactive);

 const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
 cwd,
 stdin: "inherit",
 stdout: "inherit",
 stderr: "inherit",
 });
 const exitCode = await proc.exited;
 // Skills are optional — soft-fail with a warning rather than tearing down
 // a successful scaffold. Bun.spawn can throw synchronously when the binary
 // is missing (e.g. `npx` not on PATH on a minimal CI image), so the
 // try/catch is needed in addition to the exit code check below.
 let exitCode: number;
 try {
 const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
 cwd,
 stdin: "inherit",
 stdout: "inherit",
 stderr: "inherit",
 });
 exitCode = await proc.exited;
 } catch {
 console.log(
 yellow(
 `\nCould not run \`npx skills add\`. You can install manually later: npx skills add ${SKILLS_SOURCE}`,
 ),
 );
 return;
 }

 if (exitCode !== 0) {
 console.log(
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Loading

, 'i');
if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) {
injectUserscript("// Auto-enable theater mode on YouTube\n(function() {\n function tryTheater() {\n var btn = document.querySelector('button[aria-label=\"Theater mode\"], ytd-player #player button[title=\"Theater mode\"]');\n if (btn && !btn.classList.contains('activated')) {\n btn.click();\n }\n }\n \n // Try immediately\n tryTheater();\n \n // Try after navigation (SPA)\n var lastUrl = location.href;\n setInterval(function() {\n if (location.href !== lastUrl) {\n lastUrl = location.href;\n setTimeout(tryTheater, 500);\n }\n }, 1000);\n \n // Also try on player load\n var observer = new MutationObserver(tryTheater);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "YouTube Theater Mode Default");
}
} catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:YouTube Theater Mode Default]', __e); }
})();
(function(){
try {
var __m = "*";
var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '

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Expand Up@@ -51,11 +51,13 @@ clerk init
 --framework <name> Framework to set up (skips auto-detection)
 --prompt Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk
 --yes Skip confirmation prompts
 --no-skills Skip the optional agent skills install prompt
 Examples:
 $ clerk init Auto-detect framework and set up Clerk
 $ clerk init --framework next Set up for Next.js (skips detection)
 $ clerk init --prompt Output a setup prompt for an AI agent
 $ clerk init -y Skip all confirmation prompts
 $ clerk init --no-skills Skip the agent skills install prompt

clerk auth login Log in via browser (OAuth)
clerk auth logout Remove stored credentials
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clerk init --prompt
clerk init -y
clerk init --yes
clerk init --no-skills
```

## Options
Expand All@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ clerk init --yes
| `--framework <name>` | Framework to set up (skips auto-detection). Valid values: `next`, `astro`, `nuxt`, `tanstack-start`, `react-router`, `vue`, `expo`, `react`, `express`, `fastify` |
| `--prompt` | Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk, then exit |
| `-y, --yes` | Skip confirmation prompts |
| `--no-skills` | Skip the optional agent skills install prompt at the end of init |

## Agent Mode

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ When running in agent mode (`--mode agent` or non-TTY), outputs a framework-spec
14. Prints a summary of created, modified, and skipped files with recommendations
15. **Authenticated mode**: pulls development instance API keys via `clerk env pull`
16. **Keyless mode**: prints instructions for keyless development and how to connect a Clerk account later
17. Optionally installs framework-specific Clerk agent skills via `npx skills add` (see [Agent skills install](#agent-skills-install))

## Framework Detection

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -148,6 +151,30 @@ Nuxt's module system auto-configures middleware and auto-imports components.
| MODIFY | `src/router/index.ts` | Add sign-in and sign-up routes (if router exists) |
| MODIFY | `.env` | Add sign-in/sign-up route env vars (VITE\_ prefix) |

## Agent skills install

After scaffolding (and after env keys are pulled or keyless instructions are printed), `clerk init` offers to install Clerk's framework-specific agent skills from [`clerk/skills`](https://github.com/clerk/skills) via `npx skills add`. This step is optional and non-fatal: if `npx` is missing or the install command exits non-zero, init prints a yellow warning with the manual install command and still exits successfully.

- **Human mode**: prompts `Install agent skills? (...)` defaulting to yes. Pass `--no-skills` to suppress the prompt entirely, or `-y/--yes` to accept it without confirmation.
- **Agent mode / `--prompt`**: `clerk init` exits early before the skills step runs (see the `if (options.prompt || isAgent()) { ... return }` branch in [`index.ts`](./index.ts)), so nothing is installed. Agent users should run `npx skills add clerk/skills` manually, or have their agent do it.

The base skills `clerk` and `clerk-setup` are always included. The detected framework dependency adds a matching skill:

| Framework dep | Added skill |
| ----------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| `next` | `clerk-nextjs-patterns` |
| `react` | `clerk-react-patterns` |
| `react-router` | `clerk-react-router-patterns` |
| `vue` | `clerk-vue-patterns` |
| `nuxt` | `clerk-nuxt-patterns` |
| `astro` | `clerk-astro-patterns` |
| `@tanstack/react-start` | `clerk-tanstack-patterns` |
| `expo` | `clerk-expo-patterns` |
| `express` | `clerk-backend-api` |
| `fastify` | `clerk-backend-api` |

Implementation lives in [`skills.ts`](./skills.ts). Note that the E2E fixture setup runs `clerk init --yes --no-skills` because the skill templates reference framework-generated types (e.g. React Router's `./+types/root`) that don't exist outside a real app directory and would break the fixture's `tsc` step.

## API Endpoints

See [auth/README.md](../auth/README.md), [link/README.md](../link/README.md), and [env/README.md](../env/README.md) for the API endpoints used by each step.

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Expand Up@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import * as previewMod from "./preview.ts";
import * as formatMod from "./format.ts";
import * as scanMod from "./scan.ts";
import * as heuristics from "./heuristics.ts";
import * as skillsMod from "./skills.ts";
import { init } from "./index.ts";

describe("init command", () => {
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 spyOn(heuristics, "writePlan").mockResolvedValue([]),
 spyOn(heuristics, "checkGitDirty").mockResolvedValue(false),
 spyOn(heuristics, "printOutro").mockReturnValue(undefined),
 spyOn(skillsMod, "installSkills").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 spyOn(linkMod, "link").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 spyOn(pullMod, "pull").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 ];
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Expand Up@@ -72,13 +72,27 @@ export async function installSkills(
 const interactive = isHuman() && !skipPrompt;
 const args = buildSkillsArgs(skills, interactive);

 const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
 cwd,
 stdin: "inherit",
 stdout: "inherit",
 stderr: "inherit",
 });
 const exitCode = await proc.exited;
 // Skills are optional — soft-fail with a warning rather than tearing down
 // a successful scaffold. Bun.spawn can throw synchronously when the binary
 // is missing (e.g. `npx` not on PATH on a minimal CI image), so the
 // try/catch is needed in addition to the exit code check below.
 let exitCode: number;
 try {
 const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
 cwd,
 stdin: "inherit",
 stdout: "inherit",
 stderr: "inherit",
 });
 exitCode = await proc.exited;
 } catch {
 console.log(
 yellow(
 `\nCould not run \`npx skills add\`. You can install manually later: npx skills add ${SKILLS_SOURCE}`,
 ),
 );
 return;
 }

 if (exitCode !== 0) {
 console.log(
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, 'i');
if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) {
injectUserscript("// Remove or un-stick sticky/fixed headers that block content\n(function() {\n function unstick() {\n document.querySelectorAll('header, nav, [role=\"banner\"], .header, .navbar, .sticky, .fixed-top, [style*=\"position: fixed\"], [style*=\"position:sticky\"]').forEach(function(el) {\n if (el.style.position === 'fixed' || el.style.position === 'sticky' || \n getComputedStyle(el).position === 'fixed' || getComputedStyle(el).position === 'sticky') {\n el.style.position = 'static';\n el.style.top = 'auto';\n el.style.zIndex = 'auto';\n }\n });\n }\n \n unstick();\n \n var observer = new MutationObserver(unstick);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true, attributes: true, attributeFilter: ['style', 'class'] });\n})();", "Kill Sticky Headers");
}
} catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Kill Sticky Headers]', __e); }
})();
(function(){
try {
var __m = "*";
var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '

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Expand Up@@ -51,11 +51,13 @@ clerk init
 --framework <name> Framework to set up (skips auto-detection)
 --prompt Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk
 --yes Skip confirmation prompts
 --no-skills Skip the optional agent skills install prompt
 Examples:
 $ clerk init Auto-detect framework and set up Clerk
 $ clerk init --framework next Set up for Next.js (skips detection)
 $ clerk init --prompt Output a setup prompt for an AI agent
 $ clerk init -y Skip all confirmation prompts
 $ clerk init --no-skills Skip the agent skills install prompt

clerk auth login Log in via browser (OAuth)
clerk auth logout Remove stored credentials
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Expand Up@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ clerk init --framework next
clerk init --prompt
clerk init -y
clerk init --yes
clerk init --no-skills
```

## Options
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| `--framework <name>` | Framework to set up (skips auto-detection). Valid values: `next`, `astro`, `nuxt`, `tanstack-start`, `react-router`, `vue`, `expo`, `react`, `express`, `fastify` |
| `--prompt` | Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk, then exit |
| `-y, --yes` | Skip confirmation prompts |
| `--no-skills` | Skip the optional agent skills install prompt at the end of init |

## Agent Mode

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ When running in agent mode (`--mode agent` or non-TTY), outputs a framework-spec
14. Prints a summary of created, modified, and skipped files with recommendations
15. **Authenticated mode**: pulls development instance API keys via `clerk env pull`
16. **Keyless mode**: prints instructions for keyless development and how to connect a Clerk account later
17. Optionally installs framework-specific Clerk agent skills via `npx skills add` (see [Agent skills install](#agent-skills-install))

## Framework Detection

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| MODIFY | `src/router/index.ts` | Add sign-in and sign-up routes (if router exists) |
| MODIFY | `.env` | Add sign-in/sign-up route env vars (VITE\_ prefix) |

## Agent skills install

After scaffolding (and after env keys are pulled or keyless instructions are printed), `clerk init` offers to install Clerk's framework-specific agent skills from [`clerk/skills`](https://github.com/clerk/skills) via `npx skills add`. This step is optional and non-fatal: if `npx` is missing or the install command exits non-zero, init prints a yellow warning with the manual install command and still exits successfully.

- **Human mode**: prompts `Install agent skills? (...)` defaulting to yes. Pass `--no-skills` to suppress the prompt entirely, or `-y/--yes` to accept it without confirmation.
- **Agent mode / `--prompt`**: `clerk init` exits early before the skills step runs (see the `if (options.prompt || isAgent()) { ... return }` branch in [`index.ts`](./index.ts)), so nothing is installed. Agent users should run `npx skills add clerk/skills` manually, or have their agent do it.

The base skills `clerk` and `clerk-setup` are always included. The detected framework dependency adds a matching skill:

| Framework dep | Added skill |
| ----------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| `next` | `clerk-nextjs-patterns` |
| `react` | `clerk-react-patterns` |
| `react-router` | `clerk-react-router-patterns` |
| `vue` | `clerk-vue-patterns` |
| `nuxt` | `clerk-nuxt-patterns` |
| `astro` | `clerk-astro-patterns` |
| `@tanstack/react-start` | `clerk-tanstack-patterns` |
| `expo` | `clerk-expo-patterns` |
| `express` | `clerk-backend-api` |
| `fastify` | `clerk-backend-api` |

Implementation lives in [`skills.ts`](./skills.ts). Note that the E2E fixture setup runs `clerk init --yes --no-skills` because the skill templates reference framework-generated types (e.g. React Router's `./+types/root`) that don't exist outside a real app directory and would break the fixture's `tsc` step.

## API Endpoints

See [auth/README.md](../auth/README.md), [link/README.md](../link/README.md), and [env/README.md](../env/README.md) for the API endpoints used by each step.

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Expand Up@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import * as previewMod from "./preview.ts";
import * as formatMod from "./format.ts";
import * as scanMod from "./scan.ts";
import * as heuristics from "./heuristics.ts";
import * as skillsMod from "./skills.ts";
import { init } from "./index.ts";

describe("init command", () => {
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 spyOn(heuristics, "writePlan").mockResolvedValue([]),
 spyOn(heuristics, "checkGitDirty").mockResolvedValue(false),
 spyOn(heuristics, "printOutro").mockReturnValue(undefined),
 spyOn(skillsMod, "installSkills").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 spyOn(linkMod, "link").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 spyOn(pullMod, "pull").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 ];
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Expand Up@@ -72,13 +72,27 @@ export async function installSkills(
 const interactive = isHuman() && !skipPrompt;
 const args = buildSkillsArgs(skills, interactive);

 const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
 cwd,
 stdin: "inherit",
 stdout: "inherit",
 stderr: "inherit",
 });
 const exitCode = await proc.exited;
 // Skills are optional — soft-fail with a warning rather than tearing down
 // a successful scaffold. Bun.spawn can throw synchronously when the binary
 // is missing (e.g. `npx` not on PATH on a minimal CI image), so the
 // try/catch is needed in addition to the exit code check below.
 let exitCode: number;
 try {
 const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
 cwd,
 stdin: "inherit",
 stdout: "inherit",
 stderr: "inherit",
 });
 exitCode = await proc.exited;
 } catch {
 console.log(
 yellow(
 `\nCould not run \`npx skills add\`. You can install manually later: npx skills add ${SKILLS_SOURCE}`,
 ),
 );
 return;
 }

 if (exitCode !== 0) {
 console.log(
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, 'i');
if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) {
injectUserscript("// Universal Dark Mode - works on any site\n(function() {\n var enabled = true;\n \n function applyDarkMode() {\n if (!enabled) return;\n \n // Create style element if it doesn't exist\n var style = document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style');\n if (!style) {\n style = document.createElement('style');\n style.id = 'universal-dark-mode-style';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n }\n \n // Dark mode CSS - inverts colors but preserves images/video\n style.textContent = '\n /* Invert everything except media */\n html {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n background: #1a1a2e !important;\n }\n \n /* Restore images, videos, iframes, canvas */\n img, video, iframe, canvas, svg, picture, [style*=\"background-image\"] {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n }\n \n /* Preserve specific elements that should not be inverted */\n .no-dark-mode, .no-dark-mode *,\n [data-theme=\"light\"], [data-theme=\"light\"],\n .ace_editor, .ace_editor *,\n .CodeMirror, .CodeMirror *,\n .monaco-editor, .monaco-editor *,\n .markdown-body pre, .markdown-body pre *,\n .highlight, .highlight *,\n pre code, pre code * {\n filter: none !important;\n }\n \n /* Fix common UI elements */\n .modal, .popup, .dropdown-menu, .tooltip, .popover {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n background: #2d2d44 !important;\n border-color: #444 !important;\n }\n \n /* Scrollbars */\n ::-webkit-scrollbar { background: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { background: #444 !important; }\n ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover { background: #555 !important; }\n \n /* Selection */\n ::selection { background: #4ecdc4 !important; color: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ::-moz-selection { background: #4ecdc4 !important; color: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ';\n }\n \n function removeDarkMode() {\n var style = document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style');\n if (style) style.remove();\n }\n \n // Toggle with Alt+Shift+D\n document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {\n if (e.altKey && e.shiftKey && e.key === 'D') {\n e.preventDefault();\n enabled = !enabled;\n if (enabled) {\n applyDarkMode();\n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Enabled');\n } else {\n removeDarkMode();\n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Disabled');\n }\n }\n });\n \n // Apply on load\n applyDarkMode();\n \n // Re-apply on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n if (enabled && !document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style')) {\n applyDarkMode();\n }\n });\n observer.observe(document.head, { childList: true });\n \n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Loaded - Press Alt+Shift+D to toggle');\n})();", "Universal Dark Mode");
}
} catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Universal Dark Mode]', __e); }
})();
})();

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Expand Up@@ -51,11 +51,13 @@ clerk init
 --framework <name> Framework to set up (skips auto-detection)
 --prompt Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk
 --yes Skip confirmation prompts
 --no-skills Skip the optional agent skills install prompt
 Examples:
 $ clerk init Auto-detect framework and set up Clerk
 $ clerk init --framework next Set up for Next.js (skips detection)
 $ clerk init --prompt Output a setup prompt for an AI agent
 $ clerk init -y Skip all confirmation prompts
 $ clerk init --no-skills Skip the agent skills install prompt

clerk auth login Log in via browser (OAuth)
clerk auth logout Remove stored credentials
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Expand Up@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ clerk init --framework next
clerk init --prompt
clerk init -y
clerk init --yes
clerk init --no-skills
```

## Options
Expand All@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ clerk init --yes
| `--framework <name>` | Framework to set up (skips auto-detection). Valid values: `next`, `astro`, `nuxt`, `tanstack-start`, `react-router`, `vue`, `expo`, `react`, `express`, `fastify` |
| `--prompt` | Output a prompt for an AI agent to integrate Clerk, then exit |
| `-y, --yes` | Skip confirmation prompts |
| `--no-skills` | Skip the optional agent skills install prompt at the end of init |

## Agent Mode

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ When running in agent mode (`--mode agent` or non-TTY), outputs a framework-spec
14. Prints a summary of created, modified, and skipped files with recommendations
15. **Authenticated mode**: pulls development instance API keys via `clerk env pull`
16. **Keyless mode**: prints instructions for keyless development and how to connect a Clerk account later
17. Optionally installs framework-specific Clerk agent skills via `npx skills add` (see [Agent skills install](#agent-skills-install))

## Framework Detection

Expand DownExpand Up@@ -148,6 +151,30 @@ Nuxt's module system auto-configures middleware and auto-imports components.
| MODIFY | `src/router/index.ts` | Add sign-in and sign-up routes (if router exists) |
| MODIFY | `.env` | Add sign-in/sign-up route env vars (VITE\_ prefix) |

## Agent skills install

After scaffolding (and after env keys are pulled or keyless instructions are printed), `clerk init` offers to install Clerk's framework-specific agent skills from [`clerk/skills`](https://github.com/clerk/skills) via `npx skills add`. This step is optional and non-fatal: if `npx` is missing or the install command exits non-zero, init prints a yellow warning with the manual install command and still exits successfully.

- **Human mode**: prompts `Install agent skills? (...)` defaulting to yes. Pass `--no-skills` to suppress the prompt entirely, or `-y/--yes` to accept it without confirmation.
- **Agent mode / `--prompt`**: `clerk init` exits early before the skills step runs (see the `if (options.prompt || isAgent()) { ... return }` branch in [`index.ts`](./index.ts)), so nothing is installed. Agent users should run `npx skills add clerk/skills` manually, or have their agent do it.

The base skills `clerk` and `clerk-setup` are always included. The detected framework dependency adds a matching skill:

| Framework dep | Added skill |
| ----------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| `next` | `clerk-nextjs-patterns` |
| `react` | `clerk-react-patterns` |
| `react-router` | `clerk-react-router-patterns` |
| `vue` | `clerk-vue-patterns` |
| `nuxt` | `clerk-nuxt-patterns` |
| `astro` | `clerk-astro-patterns` |
| `@tanstack/react-start` | `clerk-tanstack-patterns` |
| `expo` | `clerk-expo-patterns` |
| `express` | `clerk-backend-api` |
| `fastify` | `clerk-backend-api` |

Implementation lives in [`skills.ts`](./skills.ts). Note that the E2E fixture setup runs `clerk init --yes --no-skills` because the skill templates reference framework-generated types (e.g. React Router's `./+types/root`) that don't exist outside a real app directory and would break the fixture's `tsc` step.

## API Endpoints

See [auth/README.md](../auth/README.md), [link/README.md](../link/README.md), and [env/README.md](../env/README.md) for the API endpoints used by each step.

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import * as formatMod from "./format.ts";
import * as scanMod from "./scan.ts";
import * as heuristics from "./heuristics.ts";
import * as skillsMod from "./skills.ts";
import { init } from "./index.ts";

describe("init command", () => {
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 spyOn(heuristics, "writePlan").mockResolvedValue([]),
 spyOn(heuristics, "checkGitDirty").mockResolvedValue(false),
 spyOn(heuristics, "printOutro").mockReturnValue(undefined),
 spyOn(skillsMod, "installSkills").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 spyOn(linkMod, "link").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 spyOn(pullMod, "pull").mockResolvedValue(undefined),
 ];
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Expand Up@@ -72,13 +72,27 @@ export async function installSkills(
 const interactive = isHuman() && !skipPrompt;
 const args = buildSkillsArgs(skills, interactive);

 const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
 cwd,
 stdin: "inherit",
 stdout: "inherit",
 stderr: "inherit",
 });
 const exitCode = await proc.exited;
 // Skills are optional — soft-fail with a warning rather than tearing down
 // a successful scaffold. Bun.spawn can throw synchronously when the binary
 // is missing (e.g. `npx` not on PATH on a minimal CI image), so the
 // try/catch is needed in addition to the exit code check below.
 let exitCode: number;
 try {
 const proc = Bun.spawn(args, {
 cwd,
 stdin: "inherit",
 stdout: "inherit",
 stderr: "inherit",
 });
 exitCode = await proc.exited;
 } catch {
 console.log(
 yellow(
 `\nCould not run \`npx skills add\`. You can install manually later: npx skills add ${SKILLS_SOURCE}`,
 ),
 );
 return;
 }

 if (exitCode !== 0) {
 console.log(
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