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What's the use-case? Or more specifically, why do you not use a task? Sounds like having the semantics you want.

the use case is stupid people... esp me. when someone first uses the repo, and even when the IDE (ideally) first consumes the repo, it should run code instead of telling a human to do it

and if for some reason that code should (rarely) become stale

this is stuff like properly pointing `git.core.hooksPath`

or I could just... have it happen whenever you tried to do anything

Perhaps something like this:
```tasks.withType&lt;Task&gt;().configureEach { 
    dependsOn(myCustomInit)
}```

…then bake what you need into the custom tasks `myCustomInit`, handling inputs/outputs to get up-to-date checking.

That was about what my suggestion would have been, except for the needless `withType`, just `tasks.configureEach { dependsOn(myCustomInit) }`

Or if you do the up-to-date stuff yourself, just do it in the configuration phase.