quickstart

/quickstart

One job: Tell a new user what AgentOps does and what to do first. Fast.

YOU MUST EXECUTE THIS WORKFLOW. Do not just describe it.

Execution Steps

Step 1: Detect setup

git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "GIT=true" || echo "GIT=false"
command -v ao >/dev/null && echo "AO=true" || echo "AO=false"
command -v bd >/dev/null && echo "BD=true" || echo "BD=false"
[ -d .agents ] && echo "AGENTS=true" || echo "AGENTS=false"
[ -d "$HOME/.agents" ] && echo "GLOBAL_AGENTS=true" || echo "GLOBAL_AGENTS=false"
[ -n "${CODEX_THREAD_ID:-}" ] || [ "${CODEX_INTERNAL_ORIGINATOR_OVERRIDE:-}" = "Codex Desktop" ] && echo "CODEX=true" || echo "CODEX=false"

Step 2: Show what AgentOps does

Output exactly this (no additions, no diagrams):

AgentOps is the operational layer for coding agents.

It gives your coding agent four things it doesn't have by default:

  Bookkeeping — sessions capture learnings, findings, and reusable context in .agents/
  Validation  — /council, /pre-mortem, and /vibe challenge plans and code before shipping
  Primitives  — skills, execution packets, and the ao CLI give you building blocks for almost any interaction
  Flows       — /research, /implement, /validate, and /rpi can run alone or compose end to end

Key skills: /rpi  /research  /validate  /implement  /council  /pre-mortem  /swarm  /status
Fresh-session orientation: `ao session bootstrap`, then `ao inject` / `ao corpus inject --query "<topic>"`
Full reference: /quickstart --catalog

Step 3: One next action

Match the first row that applies. Output that message.

Condition	Message
GIT=false + AO=true + GLOBAL_AGENTS=true	"🗂 You're outside a git repo but have a global corpus at ~/.agents. Global knowledge workflow:\n 1. /curate --mode=harvest — scan all .agents/ across your repos and promote artifacts into ~/.agents/learnings/\n 2. /compile — mine, synthesize, and write an interlinked wiki into .agents/compiled/ (runs from cwd; set AGENTOPS_COMPILE_RUNTIME=claude-cli if you have the claude CLI, no API key needed)\n 3. /inject — turn the compiled corpus into playbooks, a belief book, and runtime briefings for future sessions\n 4. /status — flywheel health snapshot\nIf instead you want to start a fresh repo-local project here, git init first."
GIT=false	"⚠ Not in a git repo. Run git init first.\n (If you meant to work against your global ~/.agents corpus, run /quickstart from a dir with .agents/ or see /curate --mode=harvest, /compile, /inject.)"
AO=false + CODEX=true	"📦 Install ao CLI first:\n brew tap boshu2/agentops https://github.com/boshu2/homebrew-agentops\n brew install agentops\n ao quick-start\nThen: /rpi \"a small goal\" to run your first cycle.\nUse /bootstrap after the core seed when you want PRODUCT.md, README.md, and PROGRAM.md."
AO=false	"📦 Install ao CLI first:\n brew tap boshu2/agentops https://github.com/boshu2/homebrew-agentops\n brew install agentops\n ao quick-start\nThen: /rpi \"a small goal\" to run your first cycle.\nUse /bootstrap after the core seed when you want PRODUCT.md, README.md, and PROGRAM.md."
AGENTS=false + CODEX=true	"🌱 ao is installed but not initialized here.\n Run ao quick-start to apply the repeatable core seed. ao quickstart is the stable alias.\n Then run /bootstrap only if you want the product/operations layer: PRODUCT.md, README.md, PROGRAM.md/AUTODEV.md, and optional hooks.\nThen: /rpi \"a small goal\" to run your first cycle."
AGENTS=false	"🌱 ao is installed but not initialized here.\n Run ao quick-start to apply the repeatable core seed. ao quickstart is the stable alias.\n Then run /bootstrap only if you want the product/operations layer: PRODUCT.md, README.md, PROGRAM.md/AUTODEV.md, and optional hooks.\nThen: /rpi \"a small goal\" to run your first cycle."
BD=false + CODEX=true	"✅ Codex plugin path ready.\n /rpi \"your goal\" — full /discovery → /crank → /validate pipeline\n /research <topic> — explore the codebase\n Default installs are hookless; native hooks are optional with install-codex.sh --with-hooks.\n Legacy explicit fallback commands remain ao codex ensure-start / ao codex ensure-stop when needed.\n Manual escape hatch: ao codex status\n Want issue tracking? brew install boshu2/agentops/beads && bd init --prefix <prefix>"
BD=false	"✅ Flywheel active. Start now:\n /rpi \"your goal\" — full /discovery → /crank → /validate pipeline\n /validate — close out recent work and capture learnings\n /research <topic> — explore the codebase\n Want issue tracking? brew install boshu2/agentops/beads && bd init --prefix <prefix>"
BD=true + CODEX=true	"✅ Codex full stack ready.\n ao reconcile --json — check git, CI, release, beads, and .agents agree\n bd ready — see open work after high-severity reconciliation findings are clear\n /rpi \"your goal\" — start a new goal from scratch\n Default installs are hookless; native hooks are optional with install-codex.sh --with-hooks.\n Legacy explicit fallback commands remain ao codex ensure-start / ao codex ensure-stop when needed.\n Manual escape hatch: ao codex status"
BD=true	"✅ Full stack ready.\n ao reconcile --json — check git, CI, release, beads, and .agents agree\n bd ready — see open work after high-severity reconciliation findings are clear\n /rpi \"your goal\" — start a new goal from scratch\n /status — see current session state"

Starting a new project? Run /scaffold <language> <name> to generate project structure with best practices.

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Examples

First-Time Setup

User says: /quickstart

What happens: Agent detects tools, shows one-line status, gives the single next action to run.

Already Set Up

User says: /quickstart

What happens: Agent detects full stack is ready and suggests ao reconcile --json, bd ready, or /rpi "your goal".

Troubleshooting

Problem	Solution
Skills not installed	bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boshu2/agentops/main/scripts/install.sh)
Hook activation	AgentOps 3.0 is hookless — there is no ao command or flag that installs hooks, and CI is the authoritative gate. Hooks are opt-in and author-it-yourself via the hooks-authoring skill.
Flywheel count is 0	First session — run /rpi "a small goal" to start it
Want the full skill catalog	Ask: "show me all the skills" or see references/full-catalog.md

Reference Documents

• references/quickstart.feature — Executable spec: detect setup (git/ao/bd/.agents), recommend a state-appropriate next action (soc-qk4b)

• references/getting-started.md

• references/troubleshooting.md

• references/full-catalog.md

See Also

• scaffold — Project scaffolding and component generation