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setup from sethgammon/citadel is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sethgammon/citadel/setup@git:20261012.f0d2628Pins git:20261012.f0d2628 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sethgammon/citadel
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skills/setup/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 11
- Latest version
- git:20261012.f0d2628, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 11, 2026
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- 18,183 bytes
- Repository stars
- 927
- License
- MIT
First-run experience for the harness. Three modes: Recommended (guided, ~3 min), Full Tour (guided + skill walkthrough, ~8 min), and Express (zero questions, ~30 sec). Installs hooks first, detects stack, configures harness.json, runs a live demo on real code, and prints a reference card.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# /do setup — First-Run Experience
Configures the harness for a specific project: installs hooks, detects stack, writes harness.json, and optionally demos the system on real code. Flag: `/do setup --express` skips mode selection and runs Express directly. Reference tables and layouts: docs/SETUP_REFERENCE.md.
## Orientation
**Use when:** first-run configuration of Citadel on a new project -- installs hooks, generates harness.json, scaffolds .planning/.
**Don't use when:** harness is already configured and you want to verify it (use /verify); adding a single skill to an existing project (copy SKILL.md manually).
## Protocol
### Step -1: ARCHIVE DETECTION (all modes, before anything else)
Run `ls docs/citadel/ 2>/dev/null`. If `docs/citadel/` exists and contains `.md` files with `citadel-archive: true` in frontmatter, extract the `exported-at` date and prompt once:
```
Found a Citadel archive from {exported-at date}.
Campaigns: {N} Postmortems: {N} Backlog items: {N} Research: {N}
Restore history into .planning/ during setup? [Y/n]
```
Y or Enter → set `restoreArchive = true`, restore after Step 1 (below). n → skip silently. No archive found → skip entirely, no output.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add sethgammon/citadel/setup@sha256:0f27ac18b83922baThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261012.f0d2628, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
sethgammon/citadel · 927 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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