Agent skill
quickstart
New user onboarding. Detect setup, explain what AgentOps does, give one next action. Under 30 seconds. Triggers: "quickstart", "get started", "onboarding", "how do I start".
Install this agent skill to your Project
npx add-skill https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/tree/main/skills/other/other/quickstart-boshu2-agentops
SKILL.md
$quickstart
One job: Tell a new user what AgentOps does and what to do first. Fast.
YOU MUST EXECUTE THIS WORKFLOW. Do not just describe it.
Execution Steps
Step 1: Detect setup
git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "GIT=true" || echo "GIT=false"
command -v ao >/dev/null && echo "AO=true" || echo "AO=false"
command -v bd >/dev/null && echo "BD=true" || echo "BD=false"
[ -d .agents ] && echo "AGENTS=true" || echo "AGENTS=false"
[ -d "$HOME/.agents" ] && echo "GLOBAL_AGENTS=true" || echo "GLOBAL_AGENTS=false"
[ -n "${CODEX_THREAD_ID:-}" ] || [ "${CODEX_INTERNAL_ORIGINATOR_OVERRIDE:-}" = "Codex Desktop" ] && echo "CODEX=true" || echo "CODEX=false"
Step 2: Show what AgentOps does
Output exactly this (no additions, no diagrams):
AgentOps is the operational layer for coding agents.
It gives your coding agent four things it doesn't have by default:
Bookkeeping — sessions capture learnings, findings, and reusable context in .agents/
Validation — $council, $pre-mortem, and $vibe challenge plans and code before shipping
Primitives — skills, hooks, and the ao CLI give you building blocks for almost any interaction
Flows — $research, $implement, $validation, and $rpi can run alone or compose end to end
Key skills: $rpi $research $validation $implement $council $pre-mortem $swarm $status
Full reference: $quickstart --catalog
Step 3: One next action
Match the first row that applies. Output only that message — nothing else.
| Condition | Message |
|---|---|
| GIT=false + AO=true + GLOBAL_AGENTS=true | "🗂 You're outside a git repo but have a global corpus at ~/.agents. Global knowledge workflow:\n 1. $harvest — scan all .agents/ across your repos and promote artifacts into ~/.agents/learnings/\n 2. $compile — mine, synthesize, and write an interlinked wiki into .agents/compiled/ (runs from cwd; set AGENTOPS_COMPILE_RUNTIME=ollama or openai and the matching API key/host)\n 3. $knowledge-activation — turn the compiled corpus into playbooks, a belief book, and runtime briefings for future sessions\n 4. $status — flywheel health snapshot\nIf instead you want to start a fresh repo-local project here, git init first." |
| GIT=false | "⚠ Not in a git repo. Run git init first.\n (If you meant to work against your global ~/.agents corpus, run $quickstart from a dir with .agents/ or see $harvest, $compile, $knowledge-activation.)" |
| AO=false + CODEX=true | "📦 Install ao CLI first:\n brew tap boshu2/agentops https://github.com/boshu2/homebrew-agentops\n brew install agentops\n ao init && ao seed\nThen: $rpi \"a small goal\" to run your first cycle.\nCodex CLI v0.115.0+ uses native hooks by default after install; older versions fall back to ao codex ensure-start." |
| AO=false | "📦 Install ao CLI first:\n brew tap boshu2/agentops https://github.com/boshu2/homebrew-agentops\n brew install agentops\n ao init --hooks && ao seed\nThen: $rpi \"a small goal\" to run your first cycle." |
| AGENTS=false + CODEX=true | "🌱 ao is installed but not initialized here.\n Run $bootstrap to set up GOALS.md, PRODUCT.md, .agents/, and hooks.\n Or manually: ao init && ao seed\nThen: $rpi \"a small goal\" to run your first cycle.\nCodex CLI v0.115.0+ uses native hooks by default after install; older versions fall back to ao codex ensure-start." |
| AGENTS=false | "🌱 ao is installed but not initialized here.\n Run $bootstrap to set up GOALS.md, PRODUCT.md, .agents/, and hooks.\n Or manually: ao init --hooks && ao seed\nThen: $rpi \"a small goal\" to run your first cycle." |
| BD=false + CODEX=true | "✅ Codex native-hooks path ready.\n Start with $rpi \"your goal\", $research <topic>, or $status\n On Codex CLI v0.115.0+, native hooks handle startup and closeout automatically after install.\n Older versions fall back to entry skills auto-running ao codex ensure-start once per thread and closeout skills auto-running ao codex ensure-stop.\n Manual escape hatch: ao codex status\n Want issue tracking? brew install boshu2/agentops/beads && bd init --prefix <prefix>" |
| BD=false | "✅ Flywheel active. Start now:\n $rpi \"your goal\" — full $discovery → $crank → $validation pipeline\n $validation — close out recent work and capture learnings\n $research <topic> — explore the codebase\n Want issue tracking? brew install boshu2/agentops/beads && bd init --prefix <prefix>" |
| BD=true + CODEX=true | "✅ Codex full stack ready.\n bd ready — see open work\n Start with $rpi \"your goal\", $research <topic>, or $status\n On Codex CLI v0.115.0+, native hooks handle startup and closeout automatically after install.\n Older versions fall back to entry skills auto-running ao codex ensure-start once per thread and closeout skills auto-running ao codex ensure-stop.\n Manual escape hatch: ao codex status" |
| BD=true | "✅ Full stack ready.\n bd ready — see open work\n $rpi \"your goal\" — start a new goal from scratch\n $status — see current session state" |
Starting a new project? Run $scaffold <language> <name> to generate project structure with best practices.
See Also
- scaffold — Project scaffolding and component generation
Examples
First-Time Setup
User says: $quickstart
What happens: Agent detects tools, shows one-line status, gives the single next action to run.
Already Set Up
User says: $quickstart
What happens: Agent detects full stack is ready and suggests $rpi "your goal" or bd ready.
Troubleshooting
| Problem | Solution |
|---|---|
| Skills not installed | bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boshu2/agentops/main/scripts/install.sh) |
| Codex on older versions (pre-v0.115.0) | Codex CLI v0.115.0+ uses native hooks by default after install. Older versions fall back to entry skills auto-running ao codex ensure-start and closeout skills auto-running ao codex ensure-stop; ao codex status is the manual escape hatch |
| Flywheel count is 0 | First session — run $rpi "a small goal" to start it |
| Want the full skill catalog | Ask: "show me all the skills" or see references/full-catalog.md |
Reference Documents
- references/getting-started.md
- references/troubleshooting.md
- references/full-catalog.md
Local Resources
references/
- references/full-catalog.md
- references/getting-started.md
- references/troubleshooting.md
scripts/
scripts/validate.sh
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