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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"`create --no-install` reports \"TanStack Intent configured\" but writes no AGENTS.md","articleBody":"`tanstack create --no-install` prints that Intent was configured, and then the closing text tells you\nyour agent config was wired up — but no `AGENTS.md` is written. Nothing in the output suggests\nanything was skipped.\n\n```console\n$ pnpm dlx @tanstack/cli create my-app --no-install --no-git --no-toolchain --no-examples\n┌  Creating a new TanStack app in my-app...\n◇  Dependency installation skipped\n◇  TanStack Intent configured\n└  Your TanStack app is ready in 'my-app'.\n\nNext steps:\n\nWorking with an AI agent? Your agent config (AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md) was wired up by TanStack Intent\nwith explicit skill mappings for the libraries you installed. ...\n\n$ ls my-app/AGENTS.md\nls: my-app/AGENTS.md: No such file or directory\n```\n\nThe same command without `--no-install` does exactly what it says:\n\n```console\n$ pnpm dlx @tanstack/cli create my-app --no-git --no-toolchain --no-examples\n$ grep -c '^  - id:' my-app/AGENTS.md\n31\n```\n\nThe underlying behaviour makes sense — Intent discovers skills by walking installed `node_modules`,\nso with `--no-install` there is nothing on disk to find yet:\n\n```console\n$ cd my-app && pnpm dlx @tanstack/intent list --debug\n  packages: 0\n  skills: 0\nNo intent-enabled packages found.\n```\n\nSo it's really the reporting that's off, not the logic. Two things that would help:\n\n1. When the Intent step discovers zero packages, report that instead of `TanStack Intent configured`\n   — something like \"skipped — no dependencies installed yet\".\n2. With `--no-install`, drop the \"your agent config was wired up\" claim from the closing text, and\n   point at the follow-up instead: `pnpm install && pnpm dlx @tanstack/intent install --map`.\n\nIt's easy to miss, because the message is confident and a missing file is quiet — I only caught it\nwhile verifying that skill mappings were complete. Anyone who scaffolds with `--no-install` (to\nreview the dependency set, or to run installs through their own tooling) ends up with an agent config\nthat silently never existed.\n\n**Environment:** `@tanstack/cli` 0.70.0, `@tanstack/intent` 0.3.6, pnpm 11.17.0, node 24.18.0,\nmacOS 26.5.1 (arm64)\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/shivss26","@type":"Person","name":"shivss26"},"datePublished":"2026-07-28T17:28:50Z","url":"https://github.com/TanStack/cli/issues/495"}