URL: /cli/init

---
title: "init"
description: "Create a squirrel.toml config file"
---

Create a config file for project-specific settings:

```bash
squirrel init
```

This creates `squirrel.toml` in your current directory.

## Options

| Option | Alias | Description |
|--------|-------|-------------|
| `--force` | `-f` | Overwrite existing config file |
| `--project-name` | `-n` | Project name |

## Default Config

The generated config contains all available settings with sensible defaults:

```toml
[project]
domains = []

[crawler]
max_pages = 500
delay_ms = 100
timeout_ms = 30000
user_agent = ""
follow_redirects = true
concurrency = 5
per_host_concurrency = 2
per_host_delay_ms = 200
include = []
exclude = []
allow_query_params = []
drop_query_prefixes = ["utm_", "gclid", "fbclid"]
respect_robots = true

[rules]
enable = ["*"]
disable = ["ai/ai-content", "ai/llm-parsability", "content/quality"]

[output]
format = "console"

[rule_options]
```

## Examples

Create a new config:

```bash
squirrel init
```

Overwrite an existing config:

```bash
squirrel init --force
```

## See Also

- [Configuration Reference](/configuration) - Full documentation of all config options
- [config](/cli/config) - View and modify config values