kb-setup · diff
git:20261010.717c51d to git:20261010.4e87e24
10 added, 4 removed. Audit A to A.
---
name: kb-setup
- description: "Checks and installs the knowledge base prerequisites — uv, mempalace, graphify, the graphify patch, the MemPalace config and the git excludes — then tells the user to restart the session. Handles 'kb setup', 'set up memory', 'install the knowledge base', 'set up mempalace', 'prerequisites missing', and a knowledge base that will not start."
+ description: "Checks and installs the knowledge base prerequisites — uv, mempalace, graphify, the graphify patch, the MemPalace config, the git excludes and the `env.GM_PYTHON` line in `~/.claude/settings.json` — then tells the user to restart the session. Handles 'kb setup', 'set up memory', 'install the knowledge base', 'set up mempalace', 'prerequisites missing', and a knowledge base that will not start."
disable-model-invocation: true
---
# Set up the knowledge base
1. Check what is present.
```bash
bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/py.sh" "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/kb_setup.py" --check
```
Show the table row for row. Done when the user can see every row and its
status.
2. If any row reads MISSING, install the fixes the script can perform.
```bash
bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/py.sh" "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/kb_setup.py" --install
```
- The script prints what it is about to do and then does it. Done when the
- command exits and its output is on screen.
+ The script prints what it is about to do and then does it. Report one of
+ those edits to the user by name: it writes `env.GM_PYTHON` into
+ `~/.claude/settings.json`, an absolute path to a Python 3.11 or newer, which
+ is what starts the MemPalace MCP server through the plugin's launcher. Done
+ when the command exits, its output is on screen and that edit has been
+ named.
3. Run the check again. For any row still MISSING, pass on the fix printed
beside it — `uv` itself is installed by the user from the one-liner the
script prints for their platform, after which step 2 can run again. Done when
every row reads OK.
4. Tell the user to restart the session so the hooks and the two MCP servers
- load; a running session keeps the servers it started with. Done when every
+ load; a running session keeps the servers it started with, and the `env`
+ block in `~/.claude/settings.json` takes effect in the next session, so the
+ MemPalace MCP server starts correctly only after a restart. Done when every
row reads OK and that message has been given.