bootstrapping-organization SKILL.md skillB

bootstrapping-organization from tkhq/tk is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add tkhq/tk/bootstrapping-organization@git:20261027.efc1ce8

Pins git:20261027.efc1ce8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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SKILL.md skill
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tkhq/tk
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skills/bootstrapping-organization/SKILL.md
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git:20261027.efc1ce8, committed Oct 27, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 29, 2026
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7,401 bytes
Repository stars
62
License
Apache-2.0

Prepare an existing Turnkey organization for agents with tk: install the binary, save and verify a root profile, create the agent, provisioner, and human-approver tags, and pick an approval model. Use once per organization before provisioning any agent; not for creating the organization itself or for adding a later agent.

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

# Bootstrapping an organization

Result: a verified root profile on the operator's machine, three disjoint
user tags, a tagged human approver, and a recorded approval-model choice.
The organization itself is created in the Turnkey dashboard at
https://app.turnkey.com; nothing here creates an agent.

## Reference

- [authentication](../../docs/authentication.md): profiles, `login`, and the environment bundle.
- [resources](../../docs/resources.md): `user`, `user tag`, and `policy` command records.

## Rules

- The root credential is the operator's. It never becomes an agent's runtime
  credential and never leaves the operator's machine.
- Tags are disjoint: a user carries at most one of `agent`, `provisioner`,
  `human-approver`.
- Pick the approval model before any policy is written; the choice decides
  which policy set the later workflows apply.
- Every `tk` command takes `--message-format json`; branch on `reason` and
  `status` as [cli-convention.md](../references/cli-convention.md) describes.

## Instructions

Inputs from the user: the name of the root profile (`admin` below) and
which human approves. The organization id comes from step 1.
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tkhq/tk/bootstrapping-organization@sha256:0e1fe906fd1e9664

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.efc1ce8, 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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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
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  • 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 recursive delete of root, home or parent
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Source

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tkhq/tk · 62 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

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GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tkhq/tk/bootstrapping-organization
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0e1fe906fd1e96645fa8beae17215a228b467de89286f6da76ad53f5899537c7

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