# dev-event-kickoff

Routes an event-organizing task to one of the 72 skills in the dev-event-organizer-skills collection and restores project context so the next session starts warm.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 5000 installs · ★ 4
- Author: Samuel Berthe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/dev-event-kickoff/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/dev-event-kickoff

## What it does

This skill is the entry point. You describe a conference, meetup or hackathon problem, and it matches the task against the declared scope of a single skill in the samber/dev-event-organizer-skills collection. When nothing fits, it says so and names the gap.

Detection runs before any interview. The skill checks whether `event-context.md` exists in the project: present means a warm start, absent means a cold one. It reads recent git history to infer stage and pace, inventories existing files such as a budget spreadsheet, a submissions export, a schedule grid or a venue contract, and checks which connectors the harness exposes. A cold start gets at most 5-7 questions, one per message, with multiple-choice options. A warm start gets one question only: what is the goal of this session.

Then comes routing, exactly one skill for the immediate task. The routing tables stay unranked on purpose; ordering happens later, in the short-list. Re-run the skill at every project start even if the collection is already in daily use on another event, because a new event is a new context.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill dev-event-kickoff -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/dev-event-kickoff/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/dev-event-kickoff/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill dev-event-kickoff -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/dev-event-kickoff/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill dev-event-kickoff -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/dev-event-kickoff/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install samber/dev-event-organizer-skills dev-event-kickoff
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/dev-event-kickoff/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill dev-event-kickoff -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --path skills/dev-event-kickoff
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/dev-event-kickoff/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill dev-event-kickoff -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/dev-event-kickoff/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- map an organizer's task onto the right skill in the collection
- figure out where to start organizing an event when no skill is named
- restore project context in a new session instead of re-interviewing
- pick between sibling skills when the choice is unclear
- handle a recurring check-in on the same event

## Example prompts
- I'm running a conference for the first time, where do I start?
- Which skill do I need to budget a meetup?
- We're back on the hackathon, remind me where we left off

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: dev-event-kickoff
description: Before answering any event-organizing request that opens a new project or a new session, run this router first - it maps the task onto the 72-skill samber/dev-event-organizer-skills collection, or says plainly that none fits, and bootstraps or resumes the project's shared context so the next session starts warm. This fires on a conversational state, not on a subject - invoke it at every event project start even when the collection's skills are already in daily use on another event, at every recurring check-in on the same project, and whenever routing between siblings is unclear. Covers conference, meetup and hackathon kickoffs, "which event skill do I need", "where do I start organizing this event", event organizer skill routing, and recurring event check-ins. Use this whenever someone describes an event-organizing problem without naming a skill, even if they never say "kickoff", "routing" or "start".
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Samuel Berthe
  version: "1.0.7"
---

# Dev Event Kickoff

You are the entry point and router for the 72-skill dev-event-organizer-skills collection. Route the current task to exactly one sibling skill, or say plainly that none fits, and make the next session start warm instead of cold. Routing is the reason this skill exists; everything else serves it.

The collection is too large for its own members to see each other. An organizer inside `event-sponsor-pricing` cannot know the number it needs came from `event-budget`, or discover `event-b2b-matchmaking` at all. Solving that discovery problem is the whole job.

Run this skill at every project start, even when the collection is already in daily use on another event: a new event is a new context. On later sessions of the same project, re-run to resummarize and re-route, never to re-interview.

## 1. Detect before asking

Every fact you derive from the environment is a question the user never has to answer. Run detection first; the interview cap only survives if it does.

**Memory: Use the harness's built-in memory mechanism; separate task info in different sections, remove finished tasks, add dates to tasks, and note that interview responses may differ between tasks.**

1. Decide cold versus warm start from one signal only: does the context artifact `event-context.md` exist in the project? Present → warm start. Absent → cold start. Never ask the user which one it is.
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