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name: configure-skills
description: "Configure this repo for the design and develop skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout. Run once before first use of the other design and develop skills."
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# Configure Skills
Scaffold the per-repo configuration that the design and develop skills assume:
- **Issue tracker**: where issues live (Gitea by default; local markdown is also supported out of the box)
- **Triage labels**: the strings used for the five canonical triage roles
- **Domain docs**: where `CONTEXT.md` and ADRs live, and the consumer rules for reading them
- **Sub-agents**: a basic instruction to delegate through Paseo's CLI
This is a prompt-driven skill, not a deterministic script. Explore, present what you found, confirm with the user, then write.
## Process
### 1. Explore
Look at the current repo to understand its starting state. Read whatever exists; don't assume:
- `git remote -v` and `.git/config`: which remote should `tea` use?
- `tea logins list --output json`: is the matching Gitea instance configured? Never print or copy tokens from tea's config.
- `AGENTS.md` and `CLAUDE.md` at the repo root: does either exist? Is there already an `## Agent skills` section in either?
- `CONTEXT.md` and `CONTEXT-MAP.md` at the repo root
- `docs/adr/` and any `src/*/docs/adr/` directories
- `docs/agents/`: does this skill's prior output already exist?
- `.scratch/`: a sign that a local-markdown issue tracker convention is already in use
- Is the `triage` skill installed? (a `triage` skill folder alongside this one, or `triage` in your available skills.) This decides whether Section B runs at all.
- Monorepo signals: a `pnpm-workspace.yaml`, a `workspaces` field in `package.json`, or a populated `packages/*` with its own `src/`. These are present only in a genuinely large multi-package repo; their absence means single-context, which is almost every repo.
### 2. Present findings and ask
Summarise what's present and what's missing. Then take the sections in order. One section, one answer, then the next.
Lead each section with the recommended answer so the user can accept it in a word. Give a one-line explainer only when the choice genuinely branches; skip the section entirely when exploration already settled it (Section B when `triage` isn't installed, Section C when there's no monorepo).
**Section A: Issue tracker.**
> Explainer: The "issue tracker" is where issues live for this repo. Skills like `to-tickets`, `triage`, and `to-spec` read from and write to it. They need to know whether to call `tea issues create` or write a markdown file under `.scratch/`. Pick the place you actually track work for this repo.
Default to **Gitea** whenever the repo has a Gitea remote. Confirm which remote/login to use if there is more than one. If the matching instance is not configured in `tea`, stop and ask the user to run `tea login add`; do not request or handle their access token.
Offer **local markdown** only when there is no Gitea remote or the user explicitly wants repository-local tickets:
- **Gitea**: issues live in the repo's Gitea Issues and all remote operations use the `tea` CLI
- **Local markdown**: issues live as files under `.scratch/<feature>/` in this repo (good for repos that are not published to Gitea)
Record the choice in `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`. The Gitea template carries a "PRs as a request surface" flag, defaulted **off**. Leave it off and don't raise it: a user who wants external PRs in the triage queue can flip the flag in the file later.
**Section B: Triage label vocabulary.** Skip this section entirely if the `triage` skill isn't installed (exploration told you), since an uninstalled skill needs no labels.
If it is installed, ask exactly one question:
> Do you want to keep the default triage labels? (recommended: **yes**)
The defaults are the five canonical roles, each label string equal to its name: `needs-triage`, `needs-info`, `ready-for-agent`, `ready-for-human`, `wontfix`. On **yes**, write them as-is. Only if the user says no, usually because their tracker already uses other names (e.g. `bug:triage` for `needs-triage`), collect the overrides so `triage` applies existing labels instead of creating duplicates.
**Section C: Domain docs.** Default to **single-context** (one `CONTEXT.md` + `docs/adr/` at the repo root). This fits almost every repo; write it without asking.
Offer **multi-context** (a root `CONTEXT-MAP.md` pointing to per-context `CONTEXT.md` files) only when exploration found monorepo signals. Then confirm which layout they want.
### 3. Confirm and edit
Show the user a draft of:
- The `## Agent skills` block to add to whichever of `CLAUDE.md` / `AGENTS.md` is being edited (see step 4 for selection rules), including the Paseo sub-agent instructions
- The contents of `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`, `docs/agents/domain.md`, and `docs/agents/triage-labels.md` (the last only when `triage` is installed)
Let them edit before writing.
### 4. Write
**Pick the file to edit:**
- If `CLAUDE.md` exists, edit it.
- Else if `AGENTS.md` exists, edit it.
- If neither exists, ask the user which one to create; don't pick for them.
Never create `AGENTS.md` when `CLAUDE.md` already exists (or vice versa); always edit the one that's already there.
If an `## Agent skills` block already exists in the chosen file, update its contents in-place rather than appending a duplicate. Don't overwrite user edits to the surrounding sections.
The block:
```markdown
## Agent skills
### Issue tracker
[one-line summary of where issues are tracked]. See `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`.
### Triage labels
[one-line summary of the label vocabulary]. See `docs/agents/triage-labels.md`.
### Domain docs
[one-line summary of layout: "single-context" or "multi-context"]. See `docs/agents/domain.md`.
### Sub-agents
Delegate sub-agent work through the Paseo CLI. Start work asynchronously in the current workspace with `paseo run --background --title "<task>" "<self-contained prompt>"`; use `--new-workspace worktree` plus the appropriate worktree mode when the task needs isolated edits. Use `paseo send <agent-id> "<follow-up>"` for follow-ups. Let Paseo's completion notification report the result instead of polling. Run `paseo --help`, `paseo run --help`, or `paseo provider ls` when launch details or provider availability are unclear.
```
Include the `### Triage labels` sub-block, and write `docs/agents/triage-labels.md`, only when `triage` is installed and Section B ran. When it isn't, both are omitted.
Then write the docs files using the seed templates in this skill folder as a starting point:
- [issue-tracker-gitea.md](./issue-tracker-gitea.md): Gitea issue tracker using `tea`
- [issue-tracker-local.md](./issue-tracker-local.md): local-markdown issue tracker
- [triage-labels.md](./triage-labels.md): label mapping (only if `triage` is installed)
- [domain.md](./domain.md): domain doc consumer rules + layout
### 5. Done
Tell the user the setup is complete and which engineering skills will now read from these files. Mention they can edit `docs/agents/*.md` directly later; re-running this skill is only necessary if they want to switch issue trackers or restart from scratch.