setup-walnut SKILL.md skillA
setup-walnut from evanzhang008/open-walnut is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add evanzhang008/open-walnut/setup-walnut@git:20260815.5c9de33Pins git:20260815.5c9de33 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- evanzhang008/open-walnut
- Path
skills/setup-walnut/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260815.5c9de33, committed Aug 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 26, 2026
- Size
- 11,202 bytes
- Repository stars
- 34
- License
- MIT
Hands-on setup agent for Open Walnut. Paste into your OWN Claude Code session. It makes Walnut's Personal AI able to talk on first launch. It mirrors however THIS Claude Code is already authenticated (SSO profile, bearer token, or access keys) into Walnut, installs, starts the server, and proves it works with a real model call. It fixes auth errors itself and asks you only when it truly can't proceed. Use when a user wants to install or set up Open Walnut.
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
# Set up Open Walnut — we do it for you **Goal:** make Open Walnut's main agent (the "Personal AI") able to talk on first launch. You are doing the setup *for* the user. Be **proactive**: do everything you can yourself, write the config yourself, verify with a real model call yourself, and fix errors yourself. Ask the user a question **only** when you genuinely cannot proceed without an answer they alone have. ## Two truths that shape this skill 1. **The Personal AI needs a real model credential.** Walnut's main agent calls the model API **directly via the SDK** (Bedrock / Anthropic / OpenAI / Google / Ollama). It does **not** go through the `claude` CLI and has no OAuth path. So the Personal AI (home-page chat, triage, memory, cron) only works once one real credential is resolvable. 2. **Coding sessions already work with zero config.** The `/sessions` Claude Code sessions spawn the user's **own logged-in `claude` binary** and use its login — they need *nothing* from Walnut's config. So even before the Personal AI has a credential, the user can clone, start, and open coding sessions. Tell them this so they're never blocked: *"You can start using …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add evanzhang008/open-walnut/setup-walnut@sha256:476f0b47dacb3c26The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260815.5c9de33, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_hhwetifn3nfkig55)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 26, 2026 and Aug 15, 2026, about one every 25 days.
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| git:20260815.5c9de33 latest | 2026-08-15 | 5c9de33 | 11,202 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260703.d871422 | 2026-07-03 | d871422 | 11,161 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260626.32fee93 | 2026-06-26 | 32fee93 | 6,339 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11202 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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Source
evanzhang008/open-walnut · 34 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hhwetifn3nfkig55 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=evanzhang008/open-walnut/setup-walnut GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/476f0b47dacb3c261cda8103c285b83c2fa91adeb93cf2c67129c087c993fdc1
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