# setup

Creates a project wiki with a populated Home page, starter sections and a writing guide. Useful when a team needs documentation it can actually read and navigate.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1971
- Author: nimbalyst
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/nimbalyst/nimbalyst/tree/HEAD/plugins/nimbalyst-wiki/skills/setup/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/nimbalyst-setup

## What it does

The skill works on a team project's pages on the Nimbalyst server. It reads the README, docs and the brief, searches existing pages with `searchPages`, and checks which types and relations are already defined. Then it creates missing pages, fills empty bodies and adds links through small edits that leave existing prose alone. Re-running setup should not duplicate pages, sections or links.

Before writing anything, it runs a short discovery conversation: who reads the wiki and what for, which sections are needed, which modules, initiatives and owners exist. The default proposal is a strategic project wiki with Home as a dashboard, backed by Product, Initiatives, Decisions, Team and Strategy. You can accept the draft or correct it.

Nothing happens without a prior connection: run the `connect` skill first, and `pages_status` has to report `bound`, otherwise every call goes nowhere. The writing guide sits next to the skill in `references/wiki-guide.md`, base version 8. If the team already edited that page, the skill will not overwrite it and will report that the text differs.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add nimbalyst/nimbalyst --skill setup -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add nimbalyst/nimbalyst --skill setup -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add nimbalyst/nimbalyst --skill setup -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install nimbalyst/nimbalyst setup
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add nimbalyst/nimbalyst --skill setup -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/nimbalyst/nimbalyst --path plugins/nimbalyst-wiki/skills/setup
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add nimbalyst/nimbalyst --skill setup -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/nimbalyst/nimbalyst/tree/HEAD/plugins/nimbalyst-wiki/skills/setup/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a project wiki from scratch into something readable
- fill empty pages without breaking existing prose
- check that a wiki is set up without creating duplicates
- add sections for product, initiatives and team
- move an earlier knowledge model into wiki pages

## Example prompts
- set up the wiki for this project
- check whether the wiki is set up and tell me what's missing
- add a Decisions section to the project wiki

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# Wiki setup

Leave the person with a wiki they can read and navigate: a populated Home, useful starter pages, and a writing guide. Types and relations are optional; defining them alone is not setup. For a request limited to checking setup or adding a type or relation, do only that work.

Check what exists first. Create missing pages, fill empty bodies, and add missing context or links with small edits that preserve existing prose. Never delete, rename, archive, or replace a person's content without their approval. Re-running setup must not duplicate pages, sections, or links.

The base guide is `references/wiki-guide.md` next to this file. Example relations are in `../update/references/relations.yaml`.

## 0. Which project

On a local wiki, follow "On a local wiki" at the end of this skill instead of this step.

Setup works on a team project's pages on the Nimbalyst server. Follow the `connect` skill first: `pages_status` must report `bound`, and every call below takes the same `repo` and `project` arguments. A project created with `pages_create_project` already has its Home page. Types defined here are always the team's.

## 1. Look before adding

Read only; change nothing in this step.

- Read the project's README, relevant docs and the user's brief to learn its purpose, audience, and known choices. Read the existing Home, guide, and relevant overview pages using `listPages` and `readCollabDoc`. Follow the project's guide and the update skill (`/nimbalyst-wiki:update`) for all page writing, marks, citations, and links.
- Search with `searchPages` before deciding a page is missing; reuse equivalent pages even when their titles differ. If a listing is truncated, follow its continuation before concluding something does not exist. Keep all reads and writes in the chosen project and section.
- `tracker_list_types`: the types that exist, any `extends`, and the relations (predicates) that exist.
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