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- TeamAI day 0 and repo lifecycle: create a team repo as admin, join an existing team as a member, manage members, roles, MCP and env, and uninstall. Loaded on demand by the teamai discovery stub.
# teamai — setup and lifecycle
You run the commands; the user only makes choices when you ask. **They may not
know Git** — never explain branches, commits or clones.
## Before anything
```bash
node --version # must be >= 20
teamai --version # install once with: npm install -g teamai-cli
```
Then pick the flow. A user **setting up a new team** becomes its admin and creates
the repo; a user **joining an existing team** needs a repo URL from their admin. A
would-be member without a URL is still the **join** flow — `join-member.md` tells
them how to ask for it. Do not send them to the create-repo flow because the URL
is missing.
| The user wants to… | Load this |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| Set up TeamAI for a team from scratch (create the repo) | `{SKILL_DIR}/references/setup-admin.md` |
| Join their team, with or without a repo URL | `{SKILL_DIR}/references/join-member.md` |
| Publish or update skills, rules, MCP, env; invite members; manage roles | `{SKILL_DIR}/references/manage-admin.md` |
| Remove TeamAI from this machine | `{SKILL_DIR}/references/uninstall.md` |
| Publish one skill or contribute a doc | `"$(teamai skill path core)/references/contribute-member.md"` |
| Anything that breaks along the way | `"$(teamai skill path core)/references/troubleshooting.md"` |
Supported Git providers are Tencent TGit, GitHub, GitLab and CNB;
`{SKILL_DIR}/references/setup-admin.md` carries the detection probe, the sign-in
and create-repo URLs, and the per-provider caveats, and points at
`{SKILL_DIR}/references/provider-tgit.md` for everything TGit-specific.
## Rules for these flows
1. **Always use a full URL** for the team repo (e.g.
`https://github.com/your-org/your-repo`). Never the `owner/repo` short form.
2. **Don't limit which AI tools get set up — cover all of them by default.**
Unless the user names specific tools, do **not** pass `--agent` to restrict the
install. Let `teamai init` set up every AI tool already installed (omitting
`--agent` gives an interactive picker; select all detected tools). **After init,
report which agents were set up** — in the user's language, which tools now
auto-start TeamAI, which detected tools were skipped and why (e.g. CodeBuddy
design), and any installed hooks that still need trust (e.g. Codex with
automatic trust disabled or unavailable). Verify the real per-tool result with
`teamai doctor` and `teamai hooks list`.
3. **`teamai init` ends with a pull.** In user scope, and in project scope for each
tool named with `--agent` (or picked in init's tool picker when a person runs it
in a terminal), the team's skills, rules and MCP servers are in place when init
exits; there is no need to run `teamai pull` after it. Run from an agent shell
(no terminal), a project-scope init without `--agent` creates no tool directory: a tool's directory appears and
fills when the user opens that tool in the project. Init also injects a
session-start hook that keeps resources synced from then on.
4. **Finish with `teamai doctor`.** Every setup or onboarding flow ends by running
it and resolving what it reports before you call the job done.
Every public command and every flag, including the flags `--help` hides, is listed in
`teamai skill get core --full` under `references/commands.md`. Do not guess a flag:
there is no member-invite flag, for instance — inviting happens on the Git
platform's website, as `manage-admin.md` describes.
## References
In the files below, `{SKILL_DIR}` is the directory `teamai skill path setup` prints; a reference file you open on its own writes that directory as `SKILL_DIR` in braces.
| File | When to load it |
|---|---|
| `{SKILL_DIR}/references/setup-admin.md` | Creating a team repo: provider detection, auth, repo creation, first push. |
| `{SKILL_DIR}/references/join-member.md` | Joining an existing team from a repo URL. |
| `{SKILL_DIR}/references/manage-admin.md` | Day-to-day admin: publishing resources, roles, projects, MCP, env, members. |
| `{SKILL_DIR}/references/uninstall.md` | Removing TeamAI from a machine or from one agent. |
| `{SKILL_DIR}/references/provider-tgit.md` | Tencent TGit: reachability probe, `gf` install and login, repo creation on init. |
`teamai skill get setup --full` prints this skill with all five appended.
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