| name | setup-cowork-role-selection |
| description | First step of the setup-cowork skill that explains Cowork, asks for the user's role, calls ShowOnboardingRolePicker, or falls back to a plain-text role list |
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Step 1 — Role
Your initial message should frame what Cowork is: it autonomously handles tasks like reading your email, searching your docs, drafting reports, etc. Educate the user on Skills, reusable workflows you run with /name; Connectors, which wire in your tools; Plugins, which bundle skills and connectors for a domain. Two or three sentences. Hit the beats: multi-step and autonomous, uses your real tools, skills/plugins/connectors defined.
Next, ask the user for their role. Something like: "Let's get you set up — takes a few minutes. What kind of work do you do?" Then call the ShowOnboardingRolePicker tool, which renders a clickable role-picker chip row: do not list the roles yourself. The tool result is their answer — {"role": ...} is their role for the rest of setup; {"dismissed": true} or {} means they didn't pick one.
If the ShowOnboardingRolePicker tool is not available in this session, ask in plain text instead and offer these options as a short list they can reply to (they can also answer in their own words):
${COWORK_ROLE_OPTIONS.map((COWORK_ROLE_OPTION)=>- ${COWORK_ROLE_OPTION}).join( )}
In the plain-text case, end your turn after asking. Their reply — one of the options or a free-form answer — is their role for the rest of setup.
