Setup

Setup

Check whether the CLI tools these skills depend on are installed, and help install what's missing.

When to Use

• User says "setup", "check my tools", "what do I need installed"
• A skill fails because a CLI tool isn't found
• First time using the skills after install
• User asks "why isn't X working" and the issue is a missing tool

Quick Start

# Check if the check script is available
uv --version

If uv is installed, skip exploration and go to the dependency check.

Dependency Check

Run the dependency checker and present results to the user:

# Check all plugin dependencies
uv run tests/scripts/check_deps.py

# Check with install commands shown
uv run tests/scripts/check_deps.py --fix

# Check only what a specific skill needs
uv run tests/scripts/check_deps.py --skill iac
uv run tests/scripts/check_deps.py --skill glab

# Check a tier
uv run tests/scripts/check_deps.py --tier core
uv run tests/scripts/check_deps.py --tier infrastructure

# JSON output (for programmatic use)
uv run tests/scripts/check_deps.py --json

Dependency Tiers

Not every tool is needed by every skill. Dependencies are grouped by tier:

Users only need to install tools for the skills they plan to use.

Optional: OSDU MCP Server

The OSDU MCP server provides live platform access (search, storage, schema, legal, entitlements, partition, health). Install it for skills that query the OSDU platform:

pip install osdu-mcp-server

The MCP server is pre-configured in the plugin's .mcp.json. Set the required environment variables:

export OSDU_MCP_SERVER_URL="https://your-osdu-instance.com"
export OSDU_MCP_SERVER_DATA_PARTITION="opendes"

Authentication uses automatic cloud credential discovery (Azure, AWS, GCP). No additional auth config is needed if your cloud CLI is already authenticated.

Optional: QMD (macOS/Linux only)

The QMD search engine provides hybrid search over the knowledge vault. Install it manually if you want vault search:

npm install -g @tobilu/qmd

The QMD MCP server can be configured in .mcp.json at the project root:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "qmd": {
      "command": "qmd",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

QMD is not supported on Windows. The brain skill still works without it — vault reads and writes function normally, but semantic search is unavailable.

Workflow

1. Run the check: uv run tests/scripts/check_deps.py --fix
2. Review results — grouped by tier with pass/fail per tool
3. Ask the user which missing tools to install (offer "install all missing" as an option)
4. Install with approval — run the install commands from --fix output
5. Fix PATH if needed — tools installed via uv tool install go to ~/.local/bin. If the tool is installed but not found, run:

   export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
   

   Then advise the user to add this to their shell profile (~/.zshrc, ~/.bashrc).
6. Re-check to confirm: uv run tests/scripts/check_deps.py
7. Resume the original task — if setup was triggered by a missing tool in another skill, retry the original request after installation succeeds.

Windows Notes

Maven

Maven is not available via winget. Download from https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi, extract to C:\tools\apache-maven-<version>, and add the bin directory to your PATH. Set JAVA_HOME to your JDK install path.

Trivy

Windows Defender may quarantine trivy.exe as a false positive. Fix with an admin PowerShell prompt:

Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\AquaSecurity.Trivy_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe\trivy.exe"
winget install --id AquaSecurity.Trivy --force

QMD

The qmd tool is not supported on Windows. The brain skill still works for reading and writing notes, but semantic search (qmd-query) is unavailable.

Manifest

The full dependency map is in skills/setup/deps.json. Each entry specifies:

• check — command to verify the tool is installed
• tier — which tier it belongs to
• required_by — which skills need it
• install — platform-specific install commands (darwin, linux, or * for universal)

When adding a new skill that requires a CLI tool, add the tool to deps.json.