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Manifest is the repo framework for GTM engineering: one conventional, version-controlled repository holding everything your go-to-market runs on, readable by humans and coding agents alike. cargo-ai cdk init scaffolds that repo. A Manifest repo has six layers: The layer that executes (infra/) needs a Cargo workspace. The rest (context, skills, evals, outputs, the context linter) work in any repo with no account at all.

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cdk init

Options:
  • --name <name> — repo name written into package.json (default: the directory name)
  • --cookbook <name> — cookbook to install into the new repo, skipping the “Start from” question (cargo-ai cdk cookbook list names them)
  • --force — scaffold into a non-empty directory (existing files are still kept, never overwritten)
Every repo is scaffolded from the same base, getcargohq/cargo-manifest. What varies is what you layer on top of it — a cookbook, either with --cookbook here or cargo-ai cdk add later. Everything is one command group now: cargo-ai manifest was removed in @cargo-ai/cli 1.0.70, because it scaffolded the same repo from the same base as cargo-ai cdk init and the split only made you guess which one to run. The standalone cargo-cdk bin takes the same subcommands.

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Adding a cookbook

A cookbook is a worked CDK example — resources, the procedure that operates them, and the inputs it will ask you for. add installs one into a repo that already exists, splitting it the way the repo is laid out: infra/ to the CDK project, the rest to .claude/skills/.
add never deploys. It reports every file it would overwrite and stops unless you pass --overwrite, then prints what the cookbook still needs from you. Omit the address to pick from the catalog.

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Growing the repo

Once the repo exists, add to it the way you add any other code:
  • Skills — npx skills add getcargohq/gtm-skills installs one-job GTM skills your agent can run; npx skills add getcargohq/cargo-skills teaches it this CLI.
  • Resources — declare models, plays, tools and agents in infra/ with the CDK, then cargo-ai cdk plan and cargo-ai cdk deploy.
  • A cookbook — cargo-ai cdk add cookbook/<name> installs a worked example into the repo you already have.