# Setup

> Verify the knowledge artifact-root configuration and extraction prerequisites, or provision the video-pipeline dependencies. Use when: 'set up knowledge', 'configure knowledge', 'is knowledge ready', or 'where do knowledge artifacts land'. Actions: check (read-only verification, default) | apply (resolve what check found) | apply install-deps (provision the extraction node deps + Chromium).

- Skill: `melodic-software/setup-14` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add melodic-software/setup-14`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/melodic-software/setup-14/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: DevOps & Infra
- Author: melodic-software (https://skillmd.com/u/melodic-software)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/melodic-software/setup-14

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## Purpose

Bring the knowledge plugin to a working state: confirm the effective `library_dir` against this
repository's artifact convention, and verify (or provision) the extraction pipelines'
prerequisites. `library_dir` is a personal `userConfig` option. Claude Code prompts for it when
the plugin is enabled, stores non-sensitive options in user settings, and ignores project/local
`pluginConfigs` entries on current releases.

Official contract: <https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins-reference#user-configuration>.

Check-centric per the uniform setup contract (`docs/PLUGIN-PHILOSOPHY.md`
"Setup is explicit and repeatable" in the marketplace repository): `check` inspects and
reports, `apply` resolves what `check` found, and the extraction-dependency provisioning is a
distinct opt-in subaction. The `library_dir` option is Claude-Code-owned; this skill never
writes it, only reports and routes.

Action routing: no argument or `check` runs the check; `apply` runs the check first, then the
`library_dir` guidance; `apply install-deps` additionally provisions the extraction dependencies
below. All actions are non-interactive when the action is given, never prompt.

## `check` (read-only)

Report a PASS/FAIL/INFO table with one remediation line per FAIL. Do not edit settings, write
config, or install anything.

1. **`library_dir` vs repository convention.** Read the rendered `${user_config.library_dir}`
   value (default `.` = repository root). Inspect the consumer's `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md`,
   `.claude/rules`, and existing artifact directories for a declared knowledge/artifact
   convention, the team source of truth. Do not infer `library_dir` from `.claude/topic-docs.yaml`
   or its `memory_dir`: topic-docs governs lifecycle working documents, while `library_dir` owns the
   knowledge corpus. Mapping both to `.work` would nest the video-digest pipeline's own
   `.work/<watch-epic>/...` layout as `.work/.work/...`. PASS when the personal value matches the
   convention (or the portable `.` default with no distinct convention). FAIL on a mismatch
   (remediation: Claude Code's plugin configuration prompt for `knowledge`) or a machine-absolute
   path (not portable for repository work).
2. **Extraction node deps**. INFO. Probe whether
   `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/node_modules/@melodic/video-digestion` exists (the video-digest and
   course-digest pipelines share it). Missing is INFO, not FAIL: each ingest skill self-provisions
   on first run, and `apply install-deps` pre-provisions. Remediation: `apply install-deps`.
3. **Playwright Chromium**. INFO. Probe whether the browsers path
   (`PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH`, else `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/ms-playwright`) holds a `chromium-*`
   or `chromium_headless_shell-*` build (course-digest frame capture). Missing is INFO with
   remediation `apply install-deps`.
4. **OS-level media tools**. INFO. Probe `yt-dlp --version` (video acquisition), `ffmpeg
   -version` (frame extraction, watch/course actions), and `magick -version` (ImageMagick 7,
   contact sheets. Watch/course actions). Each absence is INFO with the platform install command
   from the ingest skill's Prerequisites; this skill never installs system packages. `book-distill`
   (PDF) needs none of these.

## `apply` (idempotent)

Run `check`, then resolve each finding. Re-running after everything passes changes nothing and
reports "already configured".

1. **`library_dir` mismatch. Guidance only.** `library_dir` is a personal `userConfig` scalar;
   never hand-edit `pluginConfigs` or write Claude Code settings. Reconfigure through Claude
   Code's native flow, per the marketplace's plugin-reconfiguration convention
   (<https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/blob/main/docs/conventions/plugin-reconfiguration/README.md>,
   which owns the verified-version record): interactive `/plugin configure knowledge@<marketplace>`
   any time, or headless `claude plugin install knowledge@<marketplace> -s <scope> --config library_dir=<value>`
   (repeatable per key) — against an already-installed plugin it prints `already installed` and
   still writes the value. Do **not** uninstall to reconfigure: that drops the plugin's entire
   stored `pluginConfigs` entry, resetting every option in the README's Options reference to its
   manifest default. `-s` defaults to `user`; pass the scope `claude plugin list` reports, and run
   from that project's directory for a `project`/`local` scope, or the write lands at a scope that
   does not load. Afterwards rerun `check` in a **fresh session** — the rendered
   `${user_config.*}` is injected at skill load, so a same-session check still reports the OLD
   value; report the observed effective value, never an unobserved change.
   For a root outside the project and home directories, recommend the portable value forms from the
   README's option table (`~` prefix or `${NAME}` / `%NAME%` env-var reference) instead of a literal
   machine path, which guardrail hardcoded-path checks rightly block.
2. **`apply install-deps`. Provision the extraction dependencies.** Only with this subaction, run
   both idempotent provisioners (each installs the vendored node dependencies into
   `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}`, and course-digest additionally provisions Chromium into
   `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/ms-playwright`):

   ```bash
   node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/video-digest/extraction/setup-deps.mjs"
   node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/course-digest/extraction/setup-deps.mjs"
   ```

   A stored fingerprint gates reinstalls, so re-running is safe and cheap. After provisioning,
   re-run the `check` node-deps and Chromium probes and report their actual results, never claim
   provisioned on the script exit codes alone.
3. **OS-level media tools. Guidance only.** For a missing `yt-dlp`, `ffmpeg`, or ImageMagick 7,
   give the platform install command from the ingest skill's Prerequisites. This skill never
   installs system packages.
4. **Confirm.** Report the observed `library_dir`, the repository convention and any mismatch, and
   whether extraction dependencies were provisioned or intentionally skipped. Note that
   `/knowledge:book-distill` writes to its explicitly named target skill rather than this seam.

## Output

Report the observed personal value, the repository convention, any mismatch, the state of each
prerequisite, and the exact next action (`/plugin configure knowledge` for `library_dir`,
or `apply install-deps` for provisioning). A `library_dir` change takes effect in a fresh session,
not this one. Do not claim it this session.

## Boundaries

- Do not run an ingestion pipeline. Provisioning dependencies is not the same as running one.
- Do not write the plugin cache, Claude Code user settings, or `pluginConfigs`.
- Do not invent organization-specific paths or environment-variable prefixes.