The Developer Experience Platform that eliminates onboarding friction and accelerates time-to-productivity.
For Engineering Leaders: Stop losing weeks to environment setup, secret management, and onboarding friction. Initiat transforms your developer experience from days of setup to minutes of productivity.
Every engineering team faces the same productivity killers:
- Onboarding Hell: New developers spend days (sometimes weeks) setting up environments
- Secret Sprawl: API keys scattered across Slack, emails, and sticky notes
- Environment Drift: "Works on my machine" becomes "works on my machine, sometimes"
- Knowledge Silos: Critical setup knowledge trapped in senior developers' heads
- Security Gaps: Secrets shared via insecure channels, no audit trails
The Cost: Lost productivity, frustrated developers, delayed releases, and security vulnerabilities.
Initiat solves these problems with three core capabilities:
Manage team secrets with enterprise-grade security. Secrets are encrypted on your device before transmission, and we can never decrypt them - even with full server access.
Key Features:
- Client-side encryption with Ed25519/X25519 cryptography
- Team-based access control with device approval workflows
- Audit trails for security and compliance
- Cross-platform CLI for macOS, Linux, and Windows
Learn more: Security Documentation
Define your development environment in .initiat/setup.yml and let Initiat handle the rest. Works across macOS, Linux, and Windows with explicit, GitHub Actions-style commands.
Key Features:
- Explicit command-based setup (no magic, just clear commands)
- Cross-platform support with OS-specific conditions
- Idempotent operations (safe to run multiple times)
- Integrates with secret management for secure configuration
Learn more: Setup Scripts Documentation
Organize secrets and environments by team and project. Control who can access what with device approval workflows and granular permissions.
Key Features:
- Device registration and approval workflows
- Project-based organization for teams and projects
- Role-based access control
- Secure key storage using OS keychain integration
Learn more: Command Reference
- Create account at initiat.dev
- Follow the setup instructions at initiat.dev
- Register your device:
initiat device register "my-laptop" - Get approved by your team administrator
- Start using secrets:
initiat secret set API_KEY --value "sk-..."
# Set a secret
initiat secret set API_KEY --value "sk-1234567890abcdef"
# Get a secret
initiat secret get API_KEY
# List all secrets
initiat secret list
# Initialize a project
initiat project init acme-corp/production
# Run setup script
initiat project setup- Security & Secret Management: How secrets are encrypted and protected
- Setup Scripts: Complete guide to
.initiat/setup.yml - Command Reference: All CLI commands and options
- Release Process: How to create and manage releases
- Account Setup: Create account and get started
- Support: GitHub Issues
Cryptographic Security
- Ed25519 signatures for device authentication
- X25519 key exchange for project key wrapping
- XSalsa20Poly1305 for secret value encryption
- ChaCha20Poly1305 for project key encryption
- HKDF-SHA256 for key derivation
Zero-Knowledge Architecture
- Client-side encryption before transmission
- Server cannot decrypt secrets or project keys
- Private keys stored in OS keychain
- Forward secrecy - compromising one device doesn't affect others
Learn more: Security Documentation
We welcome contributions! Here's how to get started:
- Fork the repository
- Create a feature branch (
git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature) - Make your changes with tests
- Run the test suite (
make ci) - Commit your changes (
git commit -m 'Add amazing feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin feature/amazing-feature) - Open a Pull Request
# Clone your fork
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/initiat-cli.git
cd initiat-cli
# Install dependencies
go mod tidy
# Run the setup script (installs dependencies, tools, etc.)
initiat setup run
# Run tests
make ci
# Build the CLI
go build -o initiat .Learn more: See Setup Scripts Documentation for the complete development environment setup.
This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0) - see the LICENSE file for details.
Important: This license allows you to use, modify, and distribute the software, but requires that any derivative works or network services using this software must also be open source under the same license.
- Documentation: GitHub Repository
- Issues: GitHub Issues
- Discussions: GitHub Discussions
- Website: initiat.dev
Initiat CLI - Transforming developer experience, one team at a time. 🚀