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title: "Kapitan init: Generate a Project Skeleton"
description: "Run the kapitan init command to scaffold a new Kapitan project skeleton from a Cruft or Copier template repository."
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# :kapitan-logo: **CLI Reference** | `kapitan init`

## `kapitan init`

Scaffolds a new **Kapitan** project skeleton in the target directory from a Cruft/Copier template (the kapicorp reference repo by default).

## Flags

The table below is generated from **Kapitan**'s argument parser at docs-build time, so it always matches the installed version. See also the [global flags](kapitan_flags.md) accepted by every command, and the [`.kapitan` dotfile](kapitan_dotfile.md) to set any of these permanently.

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