# please init<no value>

Initializes a git repository here, and generates please.md.

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```bash
please init
```

Runs `git init` if this directory isn't already a git repository. Then, if an AI provider is already configured, eagerly generates `please.md` — the AI-written project description please otherwise only generates lazily, the first time `please commit`, `please chat`, or agent mode needs it.

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  please.md needs an AI provider configured first (`please setup`). git init itself always runs regardless.
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  Most other please commands need an existing git repository to make sense. Run one of them in a plain folder and please asks whether to initialize one right there, instead of just refusing.
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