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OPS on-demand: This skill should be used when the user asks to "/ops:setup", "configure ops", or…

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PublisherLifecycle-Innovations-Limited
Repositoryclaude-ops
Skill namesetup
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  • Markdown instructions

    A SKILL.md file the model loads on demand, so it only costs tokens when a request actually matches.

  • Works with any LLM

    AI skills are plain Markdown, not provider-specific code, so this works with GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or a local model.

  • 22 bundled files

    Scripts, templates, and references the model can read while it works. Files are read-only and never executed.

  • Open source

    Published by Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited on GitHub. Read the source before you install it.

Installation

Install the Setup AI skill in TypingMind to use it with any LLM, or drop it into another agent that reads SKILL.md.

1

Install in TypingMind

TypingMind installs a skill straight from its GitHub folder — it reads SKILL.md, bundles the resource files, and stores the result locally.

  1. Open the app and go to Plugins → Skills.
  2. Choose "Install from GitHub".
  3. Paste the skill folder URL below and confirm.
    https://github.com/Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops/tree/main/claude-ops/skills/setup
  4. Enable the skill in any chat where you want it available.
Plugins → Skills → Add skill → From GitHub URL, then paste the folder URL and press Continue.
2

Install in another agent

Any agent that reads the Agent Skills format can use this skill — copy the folder into that agent's skills directory.

Claude Code — .claude/skills
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops.git /tmp/claude-ops
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/claude-ops/claude-ops/skills/setup .claude/skills/setup
Restart Claude Code after copying so it picks up the new skill.

Use it in TypingMind

Enable Setup in any TypingMind chat and the model takes it from there. Its name and description sit in the system prompt, and the moment a request matches, the model loads the full instructions itself — you never invoke it by hand, and it costs no tokens until it is actually used.

The model loads Setup on its own as soon as a request matches it.

Works with any AI model

AI skills are plain Markdown instructions rather than provider-specific code, so Setup is not tied to the model it was written for. Install it once in TypingMind and use it with GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Mistral, Llama, or a local model you run yourself — all on your own API keys.

  • Loaded only when it is needed

    The system prompt carries just the name and description. The instructions are fetched on the first matching request, so an idle skill costs nothing.

  • Switch models mid-chat

    Because the skill is instructions rather than code, changing model does not break it — the next model reads the same SKILL.md.

Skill instructions

This is the SKILL.md content the model loads. Read it before installing — a skill is instructions your model will follow.

OPS ► SETUP WIZARD

Load ops-rules before acting. Public repo (no personal data). Outbound: one draft → one approval → one send. If AskUserQuestion / Workflow are missing, follow Rule 10 in ops-rules (Hermes: numbered options / two-turn Telegram card; delegate_task).

You are running an interactive configuration wizard for the claude-ops plugin. The user wants you to walk them through every step needed to get the plugin working: installing CLIs, setting env vars, configuring channels, populating the project registry, and saving preferences.


RULE ZERO — EVERY BASH CALL USES run_in_background: true

This is non-negotiable. EVERY SINGLE Bash tool call in this entire setup wizard MUST set run_in_background: true. There are ZERO exceptions. This applies to:

  • Credential scans, CLI installs, OAuth flows, npm/brew installs
  • Daemon starts, daemon reloads, launchctl commands
  • Keychain writes, Doppler queries, Chrome history queries
  • Autolink scripts, sync/backfill, smoke tests
  • File writes, config writes, env appends
  • ANY command, no matter how fast you think it will be

While background commands run, immediately continue to the next independent step or ask the user the next question. Handle results when the <task-notification> arrives. The setup wizard must NEVER show (ctrl+b to run in background) — if the user sees that prompt, you violated this rule.

RULE ONE — SILENT BASH CALLS

Every Bash tool call MUST include a short description parameter (5-10 words, e.g. "Install missing CLIs", "Scout keychain for Telegram creds", "Reload daemon"). This is what the user sees instead of the raw command. Keep setup clean and quiet — the user should see progress titles, not shell scripts.


Other hard rules:

  • This is a conversation, not a script dump. Use AskUserQuestion for every decision — never ask in prose when a structured selector will do.
  • Confirm actions via AskUserQuestion where the user hasn't already opted in (e.g., "Configure all" covers everything — no per-action confirmation needed after that).
  • Skip sections the user declines. Don't nag.
  • NEVER auto-skip a channel or integration. Every channel/service the user selected must get an explicit AskUserQuestion with skip as one of the options. If a credential isn't found, present the [Paste manually] / [Deep hunt] / [Skip] options. If a smoke test fails, ask the user whether to retry, reconfigure, or skip. The ONLY acceptable way to skip is the user choosing a "Skip" option. Do not silently move past a service because scanning found nothing — that's when the user needs to be asked the most.
  • Show what's already configured first, so the user only fills gaps.
  • Never show the user's real name or email in output unless the user explicitly provided it in THIS session. Do not read from memory, existing configs, or environment variables to populate display names.
  • Max 4 options per AskUserQuestion call. The tool schema enforces <=4 items in the options array. When a step lists >4 choices, filter already-configured items first, then batch the rest into multiple sequential calls of <=4 options each, grouped logically. Use [More options...] as the last option to bridge between batches.
  • Run ALL diagnostic/probe commands in parallel when possible. Use multiple Bash tool calls in a single message. Never run sequential probes when they're independent (e.g., gog auth status AND ops-wa-accounts --list AND keychain scouts should all run simultaneously).
  • All writes go to one of these paths — and nothing else:
    • $PREFS_PATH — per-user preferences + secrets. Resolves to ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/plugins/data/ops-ops-marketplace}/preferences.json. Lives in Claude Code's plugin data dir so it survives plugin reinstalls and version bumps. Never committed to git.
    • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/registry.json — per-user project registry (gitignored in the source repo). mkdir -p its parent if missing.
    • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/.mcp.json — leave empty ({"mcpServers":{}}). MCP servers start on demand in host config, not at plugin load. Never hardcoded tokens.
    • The user's shell profile (~/.zshrc etc.) — append-only, never rewrite.
  • At the top of every wizard step, make sure $PREFS_PATH's parent directory exists: mkdir -p "$(dirname "$PREFS_PATH")". Claude Code creates ~/.claude/plugins/data/ops-ops-marketplace/ on plugin install but don't assume.

Arguments

The setup wizard accepts these flags (parsed from $ARGUMENTS):

  • --fast — Zero-prompt fast path. When credentials are found by the Universal Credential Auto-Scan, auto-select "Configure all" / "Set up everything" everywhere without asking. Only fall back to interactive prompts when a section has no credentials at all.
  • --profile <name> — Pre-select a curated integration subset. Valid names:
    • developer — GitHub, AWS, Sentry, Linear, Doppler, Daemon.
    • founder — All comms (Telegram, WhatsApp, Email, Slack, Calendar), plus Doppler, Linear, Daemon.
    • marketer — Klaviyo, Meta Ads, GA4, Search Console, Shopify, Email (sending), Doppler.
  • --re-setup — Skip Step 1's "what do you want to configure" prompt and route directly to broken/unconfigured sections based on /ops:status. Equivalent to auto-detected incremental mode.

Precedence: --profile narrows the section set first, --fast then auto-confirms within those sections, --re-setup further filters to only broken/unconfigured ones.

Profile → sections mapping

ProfileSections enabled
developer2 (CLIs), 2c (Daemon), 3g (Doppler), 3h (Vault), plus GitHub + AWS + Sentry + Linear integration paths
founder2, 2c, 3a (Telegram), 3b (WhatsApp), 3c (Email), 3d (Slack), 3f (Calendar), 3g (Doppler), 3k-home (Home Automation), 3n (Notifications)
marketer2, 2c, 3j (Marketing — Klaviyo/Meta Ads/GA4/GSC), 3i (Shopify), 3c (Email), 3g (Doppler)

Incremental re-setup

When Step 0b detects an existing $PREFS_PATH with ≥1 configured section AND no explicit arguments were passed, default Step 1's prompt to "Re-setup broken only" (instead of "Set up everything"). Skip every section where /ops:status reports green for that section's key integrations.

Progress panel

After every section completes (or is skipped), print a single line progress panel:

Progress: {configured}/{total} configured · {working} working · {pending} pending

Where:

  • configured = sections where credentials are present in preferences.json.
  • working = configured sections whose most recent /ops:status smoke test returned green.
  • pending = sections the user selected but hasn't configured yet.
  • total = total sections considered for this run (filtered by --profile if used).

Agent Teams support

If CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1 is set, use Agent Teams when multiple "Deep hunt" credential agents are needed simultaneously. This enables:

  • Credential scouts run in parallel across Doppler, keychains, browser profiles, and password managers
  • Agents share findings (e.g., Doppler agent finds a partial config → keychain agent knows to skip that service)
  • You can steer mid-hunt: "found the Telegram token, stop hunting for that one"

Team setup (only when flag is enabled, multiple deep hunts triggered):

TeamCreate("setup-hunters")
Agent(team_name="setup-hunters", name="hunt-telegram", model="haiku", ...)
Agent(team_name="setup-hunters", name="hunt-sentry", model="haiku", ...)
Agent(team_name="setup-hunters", name="hunt-shopify", model="haiku", ...)

Each agent reports back its findings. Merge results and present to the user for confirmation.

If the flag is NOT set, use independent fire-and-forget subagents with run_in_background: true.


Setup agent delegation pattern

When the user asks a complex integration-specific question during setup (e.g., "how does /ops:ecom handle multi-store setups?"), the setup agent can load the related skill's SKILL.md for deeper context:

bash
cat "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/ops-ecom/SKILL.md"

Each sub-step below includes a > **Deep-dive:** pointer to the related skill file. Follow these pointers instead of duplicating operational details in this wizard.


Step 0 — Preflight (runs in background while you read)

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-setup-preflight &>/dev/null &

Preflight data: All probe results are cached at /tmp/ops-preflight/. Before running ANY diagnostic command, check if the result already exists there:

  • CLI status: cat /tmp/ops-preflight/clis.txt
  • Slack: cat /tmp/ops-preflight/slack.json
  • Telegram: cat /tmp/ops-preflight/telegram.txt
  • gog/Gmail: cat /tmp/ops-preflight/gog-gmail.json
  • gog/Calendar: cat /tmp/ops-preflight/gog-cal.json
  • WhatsApp: cat /tmp/ops-preflight/bridge-health.json
  • MCP servers: cat /tmp/ops-preflight/mcp-servers.txt
  • GitHub: cat /tmp/ops-preflight/gh-auth.txt
  • AWS: cat /tmp/ops-preflight/aws-identity.json
  • Projects: cat /tmp/ops-preflight/projects.txt
  • Existing registry: cat /tmp/ops-preflight/existing-registry.json
  • Existing prefs: cat /tmp/ops-preflight/existing-prefs.json
  • Doppler: cat /tmp/ops-preflight/doppler.json

Wait for /tmp/ops-preflight/.complete to exist before reading (it should be ready within 2-3 seconds). NEVER re-run a probe that already has cached results — read the cache file instead.


Step 0b — Detect current state

Run the detector and parse its JSON output (or read from preflight cache if available):

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-setup-detect 2>/dev/null

If CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT is unset, fall back to the latest installed cache dir at ~/.claude/plugins/cache/ops-marketplace/ops/<latest-version>/. Store the resolved path as PLUGIN_ROOT for the rest of the session.

Also resolve PREFS_PATH once and reuse it everywhere:

bash
PREFS_PATH="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/plugins/data/ops-ops-marketplace}/preferences.json"
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$PREFS_PATH")"

Print a compact status header to the user, one line per category:

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 OPS ► SETUP WIZARD
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 Shell:       <detected shell> → <detected profile_file>   (e.g. bash → ~/.bashrc, zsh → ~/.zshrc, fish → ~/.config/fish/config.fish)
 Core CLIs:   ✓ jq  ✓ git  ✓ gh  ✓ aws  ✓ node
 Channels:    ✓ bridge  ✓ gog  ○ telegram (no token)
 Secrets:     ✓ doppler (project: my-app, config: dev)
 MCPs:        ✓ linear  ✓ sentry  ○ slack  ○ vercel
 Registry:    19 projects
 Preferences: not set
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Use ✓ for present/set, ○ for missing/unset, ✗ for broken.

Incremental re-setup routing

If Step 0b finds $PREFS_PATH with ≥1 configured section and no --fast/--profile argument was passed:

  1. Read /ops:status snapshot to build a per-section health map (green/red/missing).
  2. Filter the Step 1 selector options to only sections where status is red or missing.
  3. Change the default option label to "Re-setup broken only (Recommended)".
  4. Add "Add new section" as a secondary option for users who want to configure a previously-skipped section.

Fresh installs (no preferences.json at all) continue to see the full selector with "Set up everything" as the default.


Step 1 — Ask which sections to configure

When --profile <name> was passed: Skip this step entirely. Use the profile → sections mapping from the Arguments section to activate the curated subset and proceed to Step 2.

When --re-setup was passed (or incremental mode auto-detected from Step 0b): Skip this step. Activate only sections reporting red/missing and proceed to Step 2.

Otherwise: proceed with the standard selector below.

First, offer a quick "set up everything" option:

How would you like to run setup?
  [Set up everything — install CLIs, configure all channels, MCPs, registry, daemon, preferences (Recommended)]
  [Pick sections — choose which parts to configure]
  [Re-run a specific section — I know what I need]

If the user selects "Set up everything", select ALL sections across all batches and run them in order (Step 2 → 2b → 2c → 3 → 4 → 5 → 5b → 6 → 6.5 → 7), skipping any already fully configured. Within each step, use the "Configure all" fast-path where available.

If the user selects "Re-run a specific section", use sequential AskUserQuestion calls (paginated 4 options per page per Rule 1) to let the user pick from the section names (cli, daemon, statusline, channels, mcp, registry, prefs, deploy-fix, env, ecom, mktg, voice, revenue, network), then jump directly to that step. The deploy-fix section routes to Step 6.5; network routes to Step 3q-network.

If the user selects "Pick sections", proceed with the batched selection below.

Use AskUserQuestion with multiSelect: true. Offer only sections that need attention (skip ones already green). Because AskUserQuestion allows max 4 options, batch into logical groups:

Batch 1 — Core setup (run early so the daemon can pre-warm caches while you finish):

OptionHeaderDescription
Install CLIscliInstall missing command-line tools via Homebrew
Background daemondaemonInstall ops-daemon early — pre-warms briefing cache while remaining setup runs
Configure MCPsmcpEnable Linear, Sentry, Vercel, Gmail MCP servers
Build registryregistryRegister projects Claude should manage

Batch 2 — Channels & plugins:

OptionHeaderDescription
Configure channelschannelsSet tokens for Telegram, WhatsApp, Email, Slack
Companion pluginspluginsCo-install required deps: desktop-act, GSD, gstack, Superpowers, feature-dev
Save preferencesprefsOwner name, timezone, default priorities
Shell envenvExport CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT in shell profile

Batch 3 — Extras (only show if not already configured):

OptionHeaderDescription
Configure ecommerceecomSet Shopify store URL + admin token, ShipBob
Configure marketingmktgSet Klaviyo, Meta Ads, GA4, Search Console keys
Configure voicevoiceSet Bland AI, ElevenLabs, Groq API keys
Configure revenuerevenueSet Stripe + RevenueCat keys for live MRR tracking

Batch 4 — Auto-fix subsystem + auxiliary daemons:

OptionHeaderDescription
Deploy auto-fixdeploy-fixConfigure post-merge + build-failure auto-fix (Step 6.5a)
Recap marqueemarqueetmux digest of parallel Claude sessions (Step 6.5b)
Task* remindertask-remPostToolUse nudge to use TaskCreate/TaskUpdate (Step 6.5c)
Account rotationrotatorMulti-account Claude rotator toggle (Step 6.5d)

Present each batch as a separate AskUserQuestion call. Skip batches where all items are already green. Collect all selections across batches and run each selected section in order.


Additional resources

Channel, CLI, and edge-case detail lives in references/ next to this skill. Read those files before acting on a matching channel or sub-command. Do not skip them.

Bundled files

The model reads these on demand while the skill is loaded. They are exposed as readable files and are never executed.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Setup AI skill do?

OPS on-demand: This skill should be used when the user asks to "/ops:setup", "configure ops", or…

Why use Setup on TypingMind?

Because you install it once and use it with any model. Setup is plain Markdown rather than provider-specific code, so the same skill runs on GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or a local model — and you can switch model mid-chat without it breaking. TypingMind runs on your own API keys, so you pay providers directly instead of a per-seat subscription, and your skills and chats stay in your own storage.

How do I install Setup in TypingMind?

Open Plugins → Skills → Install from GitHub in TypingMind and paste https://github.com/Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops/tree/main/claude-ops/skills/setup. TypingMind reads its SKILL.md and bundles its files and installs it as a skill you can enable per chat.

Which AI models can use Setup?

Any model you connect in TypingMind. AI skills are plain Markdown instructions rather than provider-specific code, so GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and local models can all load this skill when a request matches it.

How many AI models can I use with Setup?

As many as you like. As long as a model supports skills, you can use Setup with it — GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Mistral, Llama and more — all on TypingMind with your own API keys.

Is the Setup AI skill free?

Yes. It is published on GitHub by Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited under the MIT license. You only pay your own AI provider for the tokens you use.

What are AI skills?

An AI skill is a reusable instruction bundle that teaches an AI model how to do one specific task. It follows the open Agent Skills format: a SKILL.md file with a name and description, plus any scripts, templates or reference files the model may need. The model reads the instructions only when your request matches the skill, so an installed skill costs nothing until it is used.

How are AI skills different from plugins or MCP servers?

A plugin or MCP server gives a model new tools to call — code that runs somewhere and returns a result. An AI skill gives the model knowledge and process instead: how to approach a task, which steps to follow, what good output looks like. Skills are plain Markdown, so they need no server, no API key and no runtime, and they work with any model.

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