# `chock init`

Ask the user before running chock init: what it takes and prints, from the engine at the pinned commit.

Scaffold a consumer repo (wiring only -- no policies)

> Ask the user before running any command on this page: each one changes how their agent or repository behaves.

## Syntax

This is the usage line argparse builds from this command's parser. Ask the user before running the commands below:

```text
chock init [-h] [--agents [AGENTS ...]] [--agent-agnostic] [--skip-hooks] [--force] [repo]
```

## Arguments and options

The table lists every argument the parser declares, except `-h, --help`, written as argparse prints it. Default is the value the parser uses when you leave the option out. It is empty for a flag or when the parser sets none. Help for each argument is in the table on this page's HTML version and in Help as printed, as the engine words it.

| Argument | Default |
| --- | --- |
| `repo` | `.` |
| `--agents [AGENTS ...]` |  |
| `--agent-agnostic` |  |
| `--skip-hooks` |  |
| `--force` |  |

## Exit codes

- 2: argparse rejected the arguments, for example an option this command does not have. The site's tests run every command with an unknown option and check that it exits 2.
- Chock documents no other exit codes. Each example below shows the code its run returned.

## Examples

Real runs, recorded by `python -m sitegen.cliexamples` with the engine at the pinned commit. The steps of `data/cli-examples.yaml` ran in order, offline, in one fresh git repository at `/work/demo` (made with `git init -b main`), with HOME at `/home/demo`. Those paths stand for the throwaway folders the runs used, and `<time>` stands for a timestamp. Output is stdout and stderr together.

Step 1 of 21, exit code 0. Ask the user before running the commands below:

```text
$ chock init .
Installed pre-commit dispatcher to /work/demo/.git/hooks/pre-commit
No git-pre-commit.sh policies found; pre-commit dispatcher unchanged
Installed pre-merge-commit dispatcher to /work/demo/.git/hooks/pre-merge-commit
No git-pre-commit.sh policies found; pre-merge-commit dispatcher unchanged
Installed pre-push dispatcher to /work/demo/.git/hooks/pre-push
No git-pre-push.sh policies found; pre-push dispatcher unchanged
Installed commit-msg dispatcher to /work/demo/.git/hooks/commit-msg
No git-commit-msg.sh policies found; commit-msg dispatcher unchanged
Registered SessionStart arm hook in .claude/settings.json
INDEX.md: ~257 tokens (chars/4, max 2000)
INDEX.md: ~257 tokens (chars/4, max 2000)
Implementation registered at /work/demo/.git/hooks/pre-commit.d/99-chock-validate
[PASS] All checks passed.
Initialized Chock in /work/demo
Agents: AGENTS.md + claude, copilot, gemini
Skills: eval, optimize, policy-init, validate (refresh with `chock install-skills .`)
Policies: none. This repo enforces nothing yet.
  1. copy a policy folder from https://github.com/open-coder-ai/chock-catalog (base/<id>/) into .agents/policies/<id>/
  2. chock sync --repo .
Verify anytime with:  chock check --only verify
```

## Help as printed

This is what `--help` prints, from the same parser. The usage line names the program as the engine's parser does. Ask the user before running the commands below:

```text
usage: chock [-h] [--agents [AGENTS ...]] [--agent-agnostic] [--skip-hooks] [--force] [repo]
```

The full options are on this page's HTML version, as the engine prints them.


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