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Quick start ​

Binnacle is one local daemon and a set of agent skills. Install it, start it, then set the project up with binn init.

Install ​

bash
npm i -g @it-bbox/binnacle
binn daemon start

binn daemon start serves the dashboard at http://127.0.0.1:7717 by default; with autostart off, it takes another free port from BINNACLE_PORT. For a one-off run without installing, use npx -p @it-bbox/binnacle binn.

A new project ​

  1. git init — create the repository.
  2. binn init — one plan of everything it sets up, confirmed once.
  3. /binnacle:roadmap — the vision and the epics.
  4. /binnacle:product — the first Product session.

Then each epic goes /grill-with-docs → /to-spec → /to-tickets, and each ticket /binnacle:task run <ticket>, in a session of its own. In a harness other than Claude Code, each /binnacle:<action> is binnacle-<action>: see Working from another harness.

An existing project ​

  1. binn audit — read-only findings; it writes nothing.
  2. binn init — the same one plan.
  3. /binnacle:roadmap — epics proposed from the code, the history and the docs.
  4. /binnacle:product — the first Product session.

Nothing is moved or rewritten without your yes.

Where to go next ​

Apache-2.0