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Projects with several folders

One project can span several folders — an app and its website, a backend and its client — each with its own branch and its own trust.

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A project doesn’t have to be one folder. When the work spans several repositories — an app and its website, a backend and its client — put them in the same project and Rinari works in all of them from one conversation.

Create a project

Open folder in the sidebar opens the New project window: name, folders and trust in one step.

The New project window: name, description, two folders with their branch and trust, and the summary before creating

  • Name and Description (optional) — what it’s for and what Rinari should know.
  • Profile — which profile the project lives in, when you have more than one.
  • Folders — Add folders picks one or more. Each row shows the folder’s Git branch, a Trust switch and buttons to remove it or make it the primary one.

The first folder is the primary one; Rinari works in all of them. Before you create it, a summary says which profile it goes to and how many folders are trusted. Create project finishes.

A project takes up to 16 folders. A folder can’t be your whole personal folder, Rinari’s own data folder, a folder inside another one in the list, or a folder that’s already part of another project.

Trust, folder by folder

Each folder has its own trust:

  • Trusting a folder lets Rinari use its instructions (RINARI.md) and hooks (.rinari/hooks.json), and edit it without asking.
  • The project’s MCP servers follow the trust of the primary folder.
  • An extra folder without trust stays outside the project: Rinari doesn’t edit it without asking or load its instructions until you trust it.

Trust is not Full access: outside these folders she still asks. Trust all switches every folder on at once.

If you open a project that isn’t trusted, Rinari asks Do you trust this folder? — Trust or Not now. See Your first project.

Branches

The Git branch appears next to each project in the sidebar. When you come back to a project and its branch changed since the last work there, Rinari says so — for example The branch changed since the last work here — instead of carrying on as if nothing happened.

Delete a project

Deleting an archived project removes the project, its conversations and what Rinari keeps about it — memory, tasks, verification, index and trust. The files in its folders are not touched. It can’t be undone.