How do I install the Setup skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add davekilleen/setup in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

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Which AI agents work with Setup?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

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davekilleen (@davekilleen) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Setup by davekilleen — Agent Skill

Name: Setup
Author: davekilleen

Setup

Run first-time Dex onboarding: build the vault structure, capture the user profile and configure MCPs. Use when `System/.onboarding-complete` is absent or the user says 'set up Dex', 'start onboarding'. Not for the post-onboarding tour; use `getting-started`. Not for a mid-life role change; use `reset`.

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Set Up Dex

If System/.onboarding-complete already exists, setup is complete. Use getting-started for the post-onboarding tour or reset for a role or preference change.

One narrow existing-vault repair is allowed: if setup is complete but System/.dex/harness-profile.json is missing or Doctor says agent harness capabilities are OFF, do not restart onboarding. Call inspect_harnesses, show the automatic / on-demand / guided / unavailable preview and each host's named limits, ask the person to confirm one or more harnesses, then call save_harness_selection(..., confirmed=true). That tool writes only the harness receipt through the sanctioned provision transaction and leaves the profile, content and onboarding marker unchanged.

Otherwise:

Call start_onboarding_session() from onboarding-mcp to initialize or resume the session.
Read core/onboarding/FLOW.md and follow it as the single source of the onboarding conversation.

This file deliberately contains no question script, so onboarding cannot fork. Change onboarding in core/onboarding/FLOW.md and onboarding-mcp, then regenerate the byte-identical .claude/flows/onboarding.md compatibility copy; never fork the question script here.

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