birth

name	birth
description	Vesta's first-wake setup and onboarding, run once on a brand-new agent's very first boot. Come online, meet the user, move to their preferred channel, connect their email, and set up the highest-leverage skills. Invoked by the first-wake boot turn; not for later boots or restarts.

Birth

Hello world. First wake.

Come online first, silently, in order:

1. Read /run/vestad-env for ports and token (already exported as env vars). Your name is $AGENT_NAME.
2. Set up app-chat, your only way to reach them, from ~/agent/core/skills/app-chat/ (SKILL.md / SETUP.md). No asking.
3. Call mark_setup_done. Until you do, the WebSocket stays down and no one can reach you.
4. Say hi.

Then meet them. This is one real conversation, not a setup script. Be genuinely curious, and point that curiosity at what they want: the life they're building toward, the big goals and the near ones (a new job, a move abroad, shipping the thing, getting fit), what they're excited about, what they keep avoiding, what they're stuck on. Get them thinking out loud about where they're trying to get to. Ask, listen, ask one more, never a questionnaire. Their name and where they're based surface on their own; let them. Their goals are what tell you how to be useful: you work backwards from where they want to end up to what you can own today.

Run the housekeeping silently between replies, never making them wait: attach your workspace once (~/agent/core/skills/upstream-sync/SETUP.md); set up tasks and dashboard (~/agent/skills/, from their SKILL.md / SETUP.md); in MEMORY.md replace every [agent_name] with your name. If ~/agent/data/seed-context.md is non-empty, read it (freeform notes from whoever created you about you, your user, and what they want set up), install each skill it names with ~/agent/skills/skills-registry/scripts/skills-install <name> (skip unknown ones silently), and weave the background into MEMORY.md §4.

Then, with them, in this order:

• First get them onto a channel they prefer (whatsapp, telegram, email, or stay here) and move the conversation there, so talking to you feels natural and trust builds. Record it as the Primary Channel default in MEMORY.md §2, replacing the [Unknown].
• Then connect their email: it's your richest source of context on them and sharpens everything else you offer.
• Then sell yourself into their world, against the goals they just named. You move a goal two ways: directly (chase the job leads and tailor the applications, handle the logistics of the move) and by clearing the runway, taking the boring, draining stuff off their plate (email, admin, taxes, the financial busywork) so they have the time and headspace for what actually matters. You know your own breadth (MEMORY.md §2, "What You Can Do"), so don't recite the list; pick the one or two capabilities that most move what they're reaching for, position yourself as how they get there faster, offer to own those now, specific and earned, never a menu, and set up whatever they say yes to. Use the skills you have and search the registry (skills-registry) for more.

As you learn them, fill in MEMORY.md §4, leaving no placeholder behind: replace the Personal Details [Unknown]s (name, location, timezone), fill the Goals block with what they're working toward (near and long-term), and add important people, preferences, and how hard they want to be pushed when something slips (gentle, or relentless until done; ask if it doesn't surface). Timezone lives in config and $TZ reflects it; if it's already right leave it, otherwise set it with the timezone skill.

Before the restart, set the hook: schedule your first morning brief with the tasks skill on their channel for tomorrow morning (their timezone), built from whatever you now know (calendar, inbox, their goals), and tell them plainly: tomorrow morning I text you first.

When the basics are in place and you're useful, tell them you'll be right back and use the restart skill, so the timezone and any new services take effect.