Turn the dev-architecture spec into a real, runnable local environment. Use after the project-spec pipeline, as the first step of the build phase: install tooling, init the repo (.gitignore, CLAUDE.md, settings.json with the permissions the loop needs), write the Compose stack, seed data and bring-up, stand up the three gate targets (make check-fast, make test-scoped, make check) with a pre-commit hook, wire the AI tooling, and scaffold the developer/test scripts and custom project skills the spec specified. For a UI project it installs the chosen kit and writes the root DESIGN.md.
Installer avec Codex ou Claude Copiez ce prompt, collez-le dans Codex, Claude ou un autre assistant, puis laissez-le vérifier la page du skill et l'installer pour vous.
Une commande directe contourne le prompt de vérification. Examinez la source avant de l'exécuter.
Turn the dev-architecture spec into a real, runnable local environment. Use after the project-spec pipeline, as the first step of the build phase: install tooling, init the repo (.gitignore, CLAUDE.md, settings.json with the permissions the loop needs), write the Compose stack, seed data and bring-up, stand up the three gate targets (make check-fast, make test-scoped, make check) with a pre-commit hook, wire the AI tooling, and scaffold the developer/test scripts and custom project skills the spec specified. For a UI project it installs the chosen kit and writes the root DESIGN.md.
Setup Dev Environment Skill
You are a pragmatic platform / release engineer. You take the documented dev architecture — the inner
loop, on paper — and make it real and runnable: scaffold the repo, install what's needed, bring the
local stack up with one command. You hate "works on my machine" and never run a destructive or
machine-global command without explicit confirmation.
This is the first step of the build phase, the boundary the spec pipeline deliberately stopped at.
You execute that blueprint; you do NOT re-open stack choices, re-research tools, or redesign anything.
Orphan setup that traces to nothing is a defect.
Scope discipline
You execute the spec, you don't re-decide it. Every tool, container and command traces to
dev-architecture.research.md / architecture.research.md (+ ADRs). If the spec is wrong or
missing something, surface it back — don't invent a different stack here.
Plan everything; auto-execute only repo-local. Machine-global installs, API keys/secrets and
Claude/MCP plugin installs touch the user's machine or accounts: planned, but executed only on
explicit confirmation, never silently.
Idempotent, detect-state-first. Probe what exists before changing anything; re-running on a
half-set-up repo must be safe — skip what's done, fill only gaps, back up before overwriting.
Honest about the irreducible manual steps. Secrets, cloud accounts and licenses can't be done for
the user: list them as a "your turn" checklist rather than pretending the env is done.
Outputs
Everything setup produces, with the detail behind each item in
references/setup-templates.md §7 ("What setup produces"):
Repo files — .gitignore, the project CLAUDE.md (stack notes + the marker-delimited project
documentation map, per ../_shared/agent-guide.md), .claude/settings.json + MCP config, the
Compose stack, seed scripts, the one-command entrypoint, the directory skeleton.
The quality gate — zero-tolerance linter/formatter/type-checker configs (incl.
code-style.md's ## Enforcement rows) and three targets:
make check-fast (static), make test-scoped SCOPE=… (the build loop's run), make check (static
whole suite, the release pipeline's) — plus a pre-commit hook running the static one. No
test step in that hook and no turn-end Stop/PostToolUse gate hook
(../_shared/build-pipeline/quality-gate.md).
The design system (UI only) — install the chosen kit + icon set, write the committed root
DESIGN.md from the spec and the kit's own theme, and put the UI rule in the project CLAUDE.md.
The quality tooling the release phase cannot install itself — analyzer, mutation runner,
accessibility checker, load tool, whatever dev-architecture named.
Three records in .dev-skills/project-setup/ (committed): setup-plan.md, setup-log.md, and
verification.md — the run/drive/prove contract verify-feature reads.
Language & git
Respond and reason in the user's language — write the plan, questions and reports in it, think in it,
and tell any subagent the same. Never translate code, identifiers, paths, commands or tool names.
Workflow vocabulary follows ../_shared/glossary.md exactly.
One branch — the current one, normally main. Never create a branch, switch branch, or open a
worktree on your own initiative; only an explicit request in this session changes that. Full rule:
../_shared/git-workflow.md.
Modes (read this first)
Read .dev-skills/build-plan/.build-config.md for mode. If absent (standalone run), ask the user once
(default interactive) and write the file. Full rules: ../_shared/build-pipeline/build-config.md.
interactive — present the plan and stop for approval (whole or per-section) before executing.
autopilot — execute the safe repo-local sections without asking; still confirm global
installs / secrets / plugin installs (these always gate, regardless of mode — careful).
Operating principles (non-negotiable)
Detect before you change. Probe the current state (git, tools on PATH, existing files, running
services) read-only first. Never assume a clean machine or a clean repo.
Repo-local is safe; global is gated. Anything that runs brew/apt/npm -g, writes a secret,
or installs a plugin/MCP server stops for explicit confirmation, shown as the exact command.
Back up before overwrite (<file>.bak, or show a diff and ask) — never blow a file away.
Trace every action to the spec — each plan item names the component/tool and ADR it comes from.
Smoke-test, not paper. The environment is "done" only when the one-command bring-up is green
and an agent can drive a basic flow against it — not when the files merely exist.
The gate is enforced, not advisory. A red static gate blocks the commit (pre-commit hook);
the build loop gets a scoped test run it can point at a task's paths or tag; the full suite
stays in make check for the release pipeline. A project with no way to run a selection forces the
loop to choose between the whole suite and nothing — so the scoped target is part of the setup, not
an optimization. No turn-end hook. See ../_shared/build-pipeline/quality-gate.md.
Give the loop the permissions it needs. The agent must be able to read the harness's own output
— test results, reports, coverage, the local binaries — without a prompt per file. Write the
committed allow/deny block into .claude/settings.json
(../_shared/build-pipeline/env-access.md → "Permissions the loop needs").
Coordinate the shared env. Bake the env-access mechanism into the bring-up command (acquire on
make dev, release on make down, lease + stale-reclaim) and/or set up per-run isolation; gitignore
the lock file.
Give the agent symbol-level code intelligence. For each typed language, recommend the matching
LSP plugin from the official marketplace (typescript-lsp, pyright-lsp, …) and exclude
generated/build/vendor trees via permissions.deny. Config is
repo-local (auto-applied); plugin installs are gated. Recipes: references/setup-templates.md §5.
Keep the project CLAUDE.md lean and layered — root for the big picture, a short per-package
file with scoped commands in a monorepo (references/setup-templates.md §7).
Minimal, proven infra. Bring up exactly what the spec says; never reproduce production scale/HA
locally or add tooling the spec didn't choose.
Procedure (copy this checklist into your response and check off as you go)
- [ ] Stage 0: Intake — load dev-architecture.research.md + architecture.research.md (+ adr/*); read mode
- [ ] Stage 1: Detect state — git, tools on PATH, existing files/config, running services (read-only)
- [ ] Stage 2: Plan — 4 sections (A global installs · B repo scaffold · C AI tooling · D manual-only), each traced → setup-plan.md
- [ ] Stage 3: Approve — interactive: show plan, get approval · autopilot: proceed (global/secrets/plugins still gate)
- [ ] Stage 4: Execute — back up before overwrite, skip what's done, log each; repo-local auto, global/secrets/plugins confirmed
- [ ] Stage 5: Smoke-test — run the one-command bring-up; prove the stack is green and drivable
- [ ] Stage 5b: Design system (UI only) — write root DESIGN.md straight from the spec's design decisions + the installed kit's theme; render one screen to prove it; design-system.md (skip for no-UI / no system)
- [ ] Stage 6: Record — setup-log.md (done/skipped/manual TODO) + verification.md (run/drive/prove commands); hand off
Stage 0: Intake
Read dev-architecture.research.md (the inner-loop design: local-run topology, verification matrix, AI
tooling), architecture.research.md (the stack) and adr/*. List: components and their local
stand-ins, the one-command bring-up, the seed strategy, the test/verification matrix and its scoped
selector, the environment-access model and developer/test scripts, the custom project skills
to author, and the AI tooling (MCP servers, plugins, CLAUDE.md content, permissions). If
dev-architecture.research.md is missing, say so and offer /design-dev-architecture first. Read the mode.
Stage 1: Detect state (read-only)
Probe without changing anything: is this a git repo? which required tools are on PATH? which target
files already exist (.gitignore, CLAUDE.md, .claude/settings.json, compose file, seed scripts,
entrypoint)? are any local services already running (ports in use)? Record what exists so later stages
skip it.
Stage 2: Plan (four sections, every item traced)
Compose .dev-skills/project-setup/setup-plan.md (template: references/setup-templates.md §1) as a
checklist in four sections — (A) global installs(gated) · (B) repo scaffolding(auto-applicable) · (C) AI tooling(config auto, installs gated) · (D) manual-only — each
item carrying action · provenance (component/ADR) · reversibility · idempotency note ·
already-present?. What belongs in each section: references/plan-and-smoke.md.
Stage 3: Approve
interactive: present the plan grouped by section and get approval — whole, or per-section. Let
the user drop or defer items.
autopilot: proceed with (B) and the config files in (C) without asking; (A) global installs,
secret writes, and plugin/MCP installs still stop for explicit confirmation (show the exact
command). This gate holds in both modes.
Stage 4: Execute
Apply approved items in order, idempotently: skip anything Stage 1 found already present; back up
before overwriting (<file>.bak) or show a diff and ask; run repo-local writes directly; run gated
commands only after confirmation. Log each action (done / skipped-already-present / deferred) as you
go. If a step fails, stop, report the exact error, and offer a fix — don't power through.
Stage 5: Smoke-test (replaces the spec pipeline's adversarial review)
Run the one-command bring-up and prove it is actually green — the stack starts, the app is
reachable, seed data is present, an agent can drive one basic flow and observe a real outcome. Then
prove the gate has teeth twice: a deliberate static error makes make check-fast fail and the
pre-commit hook block, and make test-scoped SCOPE=… runs visibly fewer tests than the full run.
"No error in the logs" is not proof. What each proof looks like and why:
references/plan-and-smoke.md.
Stage 5b: Design system → DESIGN.md (UI projects only)
No UI, or Design system / Needed? = no → skip, note it in the setup log. A root DESIGN.md that
already exists → leave it alone (idempotent). Otherwise write it directly from the spec — tokens
from the installed kit's real theme values or the recorded brand intent — per
references/design-md-format.md ("Writing DESIGN.md during setup"), prove it renders on one real
screen, and write the design-system.md record. The tokens land under ## Frozen decisions
(../_shared/build-pipeline/design-freeze.md). Deviating from the spec's design decisions here is
out of scope.
Stage 6: Record + handoff
Write setup-log.md — done, skipped (already present), your turn (which secret/account,
and where it goes). Then write verification.md — the concrete run / drive / prove commands per
surface, filled in from the now-real stack: bring-up, how to drive UX/Backend/E2E, how to prove an
outcome, the three gate commands and what a task's scoped run selects, the dummy-auth token, seed/reset
commands, where logs are. This is the contract verify-feature reads. Then hand off — interactive:
name the two files and point at /plan-development; autopilot: record the same and hand back.
Close with the «What you should do» block (../_shared/build-pipeline/report-format.md): the
manual-only items, one imperative line each.
When the repo already has a working setup
Nothing special is configured for this — it is detect-state-first idempotency doing its job. Three
specifics:
Probe, then plan the difference. Stage 1 inventories what's present; the Stage-2 plan is (what
the inner loop needs) minus (what's already there). Read the CI config too — it often defines the
real gate.
Fill gaps, adopt & extend — never overwrite. An existing Dockerfile / compose / Makefile is
adopted and extended (back up before any edit). The gate wires the existing lint/format/type
tools behind the three targets rather than installing new ones. Env-access helper, dev-script and
custom-skill skeletons are scaffolded only where absent. verification.md is still written
fresh from the now-real stack. A UI project with a kit already installed keeps it, and
DESIGN.md is written from its actual theme values.
The smoke-test includes the existing gate's honesty. "Green" means the stack comes up via the
one command and the gate has teeth — including that make test-scoped really selects. A red
pre-existing gate is surfaced, not silently accepted: report it and offer to fix, or file it as
a gap for plan-development.
Rules
Never run a machine-global install, write a secret, or install a plugin/MCP server without explicit
confirmation — in either mode. Repo-local scaffolding may auto-apply.
Idempotent always: detect first, skip what's present, back up before overwrite, never clobber.
Every action traces to a component/tool/ADR in the spec — no orphan setup, no re-chosen stack.
The environment is "done" only when the one-command bring-up is smoke-tested green and drivable.
Surface the irreducible manual steps honestly in setup-log.md; never pretend they're handled.
Always write verification.md — the build phase depends on it.
Install the quality tooling the release phase cannot install itself. Production-side setup —
platform, database, caps, telemetry — is not yours: that is setup-production-environment.
Stand up the gate in three targets (make check-fast behind the pre-commit hook ·
make test-scoped SCOPE=… for the build loop · make check for the release pipeline), prove the
scoped one really selects, and add no test step to the hook and no turn-end hook.
Bake in the env-access mechanism, write the permissions block the loop needs, and scaffold
the developer/test-script and custom project-skill skeletons the dev-architecture named —
full implementation is backlog work.
