torben
36da0855cf
Files changed: - .gitignore - CHANGES.md - README.md - VERSION - incoming/.gitkeep - instructions/bootstrap.md - raw/CONTRACT.md - tools/CONTRACT.md - tools/chemenu/commands/docs_verify.py
85 lines
3.8 KiB
Markdown
85 lines
3.8 KiB
Markdown
---
|
|
type: types/instruction.md
|
|
name: bootstrap
|
|
description: Prepare a fresh clone for work - create the tools venv and publish the skills into the harness directories, which are generated and not committed.
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
# Bootstrap a fresh clone
|
|
|
|
`.agents/skills/` and `.claude/skills/` are generated copies of the skill directories under
|
|
`instructions/`, and both are gitignored. A fresh clone therefore has no skills at all until
|
|
they are published: the agent harness will not offer `wiki-ingest`, `wiki-query`,
|
|
`wiki-manage`, `wiki-lint` or `wiki-status` before this runs.
|
|
|
|
## When to run
|
|
|
|
- After cloning the repository.
|
|
- After `instructions/<name>/SKILL.md` is added, renamed, or edited.
|
|
- Whenever `tools/wikitool instructions verify` reports a missing or drifted copy.
|
|
|
|
## Steps
|
|
|
|
1. **Create the tool environment** (once per clone):
|
|
|
|
```bash
|
|
cd tools
|
|
python3 -m venv .venv
|
|
.venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
|
|
cd ..
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
2. **Publish the skills:**
|
|
|
|
```bash
|
|
tools/wikitool instructions sync
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
3. **Verify:**
|
|
|
|
```bash
|
|
tools/wikitool instructions verify
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
Expected: `OK`. If it reports drift, re-run `sync` - the source under `instructions/` always
|
|
wins, and a copy is never edited directly.
|
|
|
|
4. **Check for personalization.** A clone predating the personalization files has no
|
|
`USER.md`/`SOUL.md`, and `tools/wikitool doctor` reports `personalization: FAIL` for it.
|
|
That is a one-off catch-up, not a bootstrap step that repeats: run **only** the
|
|
Personalization step (6) of [setup-instance.md](setup-instance.md), not the whole
|
|
procedure - this clone already has its git repo, author identity and content. A clone that
|
|
already carries both files needs nothing here.
|
|
|
|
5. **Offer to record the environment.** `ENVIRONMENT.md` is gitignored, so a fresh clone never
|
|
has one, and every session in it re-asks which harness is in use, which MCP servers are
|
|
reachable, and which remote `publish` talks to. Copy `ENVIRONMENT.md.template` to
|
|
`ENVIRONMENT.md`, fill in what is already known from this clone (`git remote -v`, the
|
|
harness you are running in, `tools/wikitool instructions list`), ask the user for the rest,
|
|
and drop the `wikitool:template-unfilled` line.
|
|
|
|
**Optional, and it stays optional.** Skip it and everything still works - `doctor` reports
|
|
`environment: absent (optional)`, not a failure. Skip it *silently*, though, and the next
|
|
session pays for it again. Never guess an entry: a wrong remote or an MCP server that is not
|
|
there is worse than the empty section it replaced, because it gets believed.
|
|
|
|
6. **Restart the agent session** if it was already running. Harnesses read the skill
|
|
directories at startup, so skills published mid-session are not picked up.
|
|
|
|
7. **Expect a lingering `session-id` WARN.** A `tools/wikitool doctor` run at this point reports
|
|
`OK` throughout except `session-id: WARN` - that check is scoped to the working session, not
|
|
the clone, so a freshly bootstrapped checkout with no `WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID` exported yet
|
|
always shows it. This is expected, not a Bootstrap gap: exporting it here would only be true
|
|
for this one-off setup run, not for whichever session picks up the actual work next, in a new
|
|
shell after step 6's restart. Run [session-setup.md](session-setup.md) at the start of that
|
|
session instead.
|
|
|
|
## Scope
|
|
|
|
This does not apply to anything under `kb/`, `raw/` or `reports/`; those are committed and
|
|
present immediately after a clone. If the wiki content looks wrong after cloning, that is a
|
|
lint question, not a bootstrap one.
|
|
|
|
This also does not apply to a fresh instance created via `tools/wikitool dist export` - it has
|
|
no git history, no author identity, and no generated indexes yet. That is
|
|
[setup-instance.md](setup-instance.md), a longer procedure this one is a single step of.
|