Layouts

A project's layout decides where canonical skills live on disk. It's set once at init time and recorded in .adeptability/config.json (layout).

Consumer layout (default)

The default. Canonical skills live under .adeptability/, keeping adept's files out of the way of your actual project:

<root>/
├── .adeptability/
│   ├── config.json
│   ├── skills/<id>/SKILL.md     ← canonical skills
│   └── base/<id>/               ← last-synced base snapshots
├── .claude/                     ← materialized (generated)
└── .cursor/                     ← materialized (generated)

Create it with a plain:

adept init

Use this for any repo that consumes skills (an app, a service, your day-to-day project).

Library layout (--as-library)

For a repo whose purpose is to be a shared library. Canonical skills live at <root>/skills/ — the exact place a consumer's adept library add / adept init --from reads them — so the repo is directly consumable as a library:

<root>/
├── skills/<id>/SKILL.md         ← canonical (published) skills
└── .adeptability/
    ├── config.json              (layout: "library")
    └── base/<id>/

Create it with:

adept init --as-library

In library layout, adept:

• Places canonical skills at <root>/skills/ instead of .adeptability/skills/.
• Skips harness adoption, materialization mode, and the bundled consumer default skills — a library curates its own skills and renders to no harnesses of its own.

Publishing vs. private dev skills in a library

Inside a library project, adept skill add writes to the private dev-canonical by default (skills you use while developing the library, not published to consumers). Add --publish to place a skill into the published skills/ tree that consumers pull:

adept skill add my-published-skill --publish --edit

adept status distinguishes them: "N published, M private, K resolved from libraries."

Choosing

You are…	Layout	Command
Building an app that uses skills	Consumer	adept init
Building a skill library others depend on	Library	adept init --as-library