| name | scout-shared-data-setup |
| description | Prepare a user-selected synchronized folder for Alex ACT Scout component evidence and shared knowledge-base records. Use when meditation, component-evidence, or scout-knowledge-base needs its OneDrive-backed infrastructure configured. |
Scout Shared Data Setup
Prepare the shared storage required by component-evidence, meditation, and
scout-knowledge-base without inventing a local fallback location.
When To Use
Use this skill when:
component-evidence is not configured on the current device;
meditation cannot record approved skill use because its ledger is missing;
scout-knowledge-base has no initialized shared root; or
- a new device needs to join the existing synchronized data location.
Boundaries
- Ask the user for an explicit synchronized root. Do not guess OneDrive,
SharePoint, or any other cloud path.
- Preview before creating folders or writing the local configuration.
- This setup creates only the evidence ledger and knowledge-base structure.
- It does not create usage events, usefulness outcomes, knowledge records, or
a Brain Compiler assessment.
- The local configuration contains only the chosen evidence-root path.
Commands
Use the same shared root on every device, expressed through that device's local
sync path:
node <this-skill>/scripts/scout-shared-data-setup.cjs status --shared-root <absolute-synchronized-root>
node <this-skill>/scripts/scout-shared-data-setup.cjs bootstrap --shared-root <absolute-synchronized-root>
node <this-skill>/scripts/scout-shared-data-setup.cjs bootstrap --shared-root <absolute-synchronized-root> --apply
The bootstrap command:
- Configures
component-evidence for
<shared-root>/component-evidence-data.
- Creates
component-evidence/events.ndjson.
- Creates the shared
<shared-root>/knowledge-base folders and index.md.
- Reports whether
<shared-root>/component-evidence-data/assessment.json
exists.
Generate a missing assessment separately with Alex ACT Brain Compiler before
recording meditation usage. Setup does not run external analyzers or invent
structural-importance data.
Meditation Handoff
When meditation detects missing shared infrastructure:
- Explain that usage capture is unavailable until a synchronized root is
configured.
- Use this skill to preview the requested root.
- Show the exact folders and local configuration that would be created.
- Obtain approval before running
bootstrap --apply.
- Resume meditation after an assessment is available.