| name | mycroft-maintenance |
| description | Maintain the Goose-installed Mycroft profile, source checkout, plugins, schedules, and doctor/update wrappers. |
Mycroft Maintenance
Use this skill when the user asks how Mycroft is installed, how Goose loads Mycroft, how updates work, or how to repair the local setup.
Layout
Mycroft is a Goose profile, not a separate app.
- Goose config:
~/.config/goose
- Mycroft Goose profile:
~/.config/goose/mycroft
- Mycroft source checkout:
~/.local/share/goose/mycroft/source
- Mycroft plugin checkouts:
~/.local/share/goose/mycroft/plugins
- Mycroft vault: user-selected, usually
~/Documents/Mycroft
- Spotlight vault: user-selected, usually
~/Documents/Spotlight
Update Path
Automatic updates are deterministic shell work, not agent reasoning. Setup installs a weekly system job; Goose Desktop can trigger the same path through the update-mycroft recipe.
Run:
mycroft update
This calls ~/.local/bin/mycroft-update, which fetches origin main and fast-forwards only:
~/.local/share/goose/mycroft/source~/.local/share/goose/mycroft/plugins/spotlight, when installed
Source recipes and skills are loaded directly from the checkout, so recipe and skill changes apply after the update. After source updates, the updater refreshes ~/.config/goose/mycroft/SOUL.md, regenerates ~/.config/goose/.goosehints from the source instructions plus local install paths, refreshes provider JSON files that are already installed under Goose, and runs mycroft doctor.
If a checkout is dirty or divergent, the updater skips it. If doctor fails after an update, the updater rolls app checkouts back to their pre-update commits.
Doctor
Run:
mycroft doctor
The doctor checks:
- Goose config paths
- persisted Goose provider/model
- Mycroft profile files
- Mycroft source checkout
- selected skills
- generated scheduled recipes
- QMD CLI
- Spotlight plugin, when installed
Rules
- Do not edit user vault notes during maintenance unless explicitly asked.
- Do not print secrets from
~/.config/goose/mycroft/.env or Goose's secret store.
- Do not dirty the source checkout with generated config. Generated files belong in
~/.config/goose/mycroft.
- Do not put new source-controlled skills in the profile directory. Add reusable skills to
~/.local/share/goose/mycroft/source/skills via the Mycroft repo.
