Interactive onboarding that discovers team structure, terminology, development goals, performance and management frameworks, organizational values, and ways of working by crawling Slack, Notion…

MITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Setup

skills CLI
$ npx skills add techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit --skill setup -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit setup --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/people-management/skills/setup .claude/skills/setup && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
setup
GitHub stars
132
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
499 words
Files
7 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
29
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Interactive onboarding that discovers team structure, terminology, development goals, performance and management frameworks, organizational values, and ways of working by crawling Slack, Notion…

  • Works in 10 steps: Team Discovery → Performance & Management Frameworks → Organizational Values → …
  • Tasks that involve Email management
  • SKILL.md covers Prerequisites, Instructions, Refresh Mode and Important Notes
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Setup is an agent skill from techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit. Interactive onboarding that discovers team structure, terminology, development goals, performance and management frameworks, organizational values, and ways of working by crawling Slack, Notion, Google Drive, Gmail, and Calendar. Validates everything with the manager before persisting. Run this first before using any other skill. Also handles periodic context refreshes via /setup --refresh.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 7 other files, including reference files (for example `references/context-templates.md`, `references/discovery-phases.md` and `references/management-framework.md`).

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Email management. It works with Gmail, Google Drive, Notion and Slack. The repository describes itself as: Open-source Claude Code skills and Codex skills for AI-first work. Audit, re-engineer, and bootstrap projects with AI-first design principles. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Email management

Example prompts

  • “/setup”

Workflow steps

10 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Team Discovery
  2. Performance & Management Frameworks
  3. Organizational Values
  4. Output Preferences
  5. Manager's Own Context
  6. Triage Rules
  7. Review Calendar
  8. Skill Preferences
  9. Staleness Check
  10. Persist & Wrap Up

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2ee7841. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Setup loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~9.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 100 tokens; SKILL.md has 499 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~100
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~9.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit at commit 2ee7841, republished under its MIT licence (© techwolf-ai). 499 words, ~1,129 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/setup/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 6 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
setup
description
Interactive onboarding that discovers team structure, terminology, development goals, performance and management frameworks, organizational values, and ways of working by crawling Slack, Notion, Google Drive, Gmail, and Calendar. Validates everything with the manager before persisting. Run this first before using any other skill. Also handles periodic context refreshes via /setup --refresh.

Setup

Principle: "You are responsible." This skill discovers and proposes. The manager validates and decides what's accurate.

Interactive onboarding that builds the foundation every other skill relies on. Crawls connected sources, extracts context, and validates with the manager before saving.

If any MCP connector is unavailable, follow the connector unavailability protocol in references/operating-principles.md.

Prerequisites

Ensure these MCP connectors are available:

  • Slack: team channels, messages, terminology
  • Notion: performance docs, goals, team pages
  • Google Drive: 1:1 docs, meeting notes, strategy docs
  • Gmail: communication patterns
  • Google Calendar: recurring meetings, team rhythms

If any connector is missing, note it and proceed with what's available. Flag gaps at the end.

Instructions

Run phases sequentially. Each phase discovers, validates with the manager, then persists. Read references/discovery-phases.md for detailed instructions per phase.

Phase 1: Team Discovery

Identify the manager (name, role, teams), crawl sources for direct reports, validate the team list, discover internal terminology, find development goals and performance data, map ways of working, and identify customer/project context if applicable.

Persist: manager-context/manager-profile.md, manager-context/team/[name].md per report, manager-context/terminology.md, manager-context/sources.md

Phase 2: Performance & Management Frameworks

Discover how the org evaluates performance and managers. Search for existing framework docs, then walk the manager through defining their dimensions, rating scale, promotion readiness labels, review cadence, goal cadence, and management competencies. See references/performance-framework.md and references/management-framework.md for how skills use these frameworks.

Persist: manager-context/performance-framework.md, manager-context/management-framework.md

Phase 3: Organizational Values

Ask if the org has defined values. If yes, search for documentation, extract value names and behaviours, ask what signals to look for per value. If no, skip the values lens.

Persist: manager-context/values.md

Phase 4: Output Preferences

Present defaults (language, tone, file format, folder structure) and let the manager adjust.

Persist: manager-context/output-preferences.md

Phase 5: Manager's Own Context

Capture upward context: OKRs, who they report to, key deadlines.

Persist: manager-context/manager-goals.md

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Phase 6: Triage Rules

Capture VIP people, hot channels, deprioritise list, privacy boundaries.

Persist: manager-context/triage-rules.md

Phase 7: Review Calendar

Capture review cycle dates, calibration sessions, promotion windows, goal cadence.

Persist: manager-context/review-calendar.md

Phase 8: Skill Preferences

Capture 1:1 style and suggest a skill rhythm (daily triage, weekly health check, etc.).

Persist: manager-context/skill-preferences.md

Phase 9: Staleness Check

Flag any discovered data older than ~2 months. Ask the manager to confirm or update.

Phase 10: Persist & Wrap Up

Save all validated context. Read references/context-templates.md for file templates. Present a summary of what was captured, flag gaps, and suggest first skills to try.

Refresh Mode

When called with --refresh:

  1. Read existing manager-context/ files
  2. Re-crawl sources for changes since last update
  3. Present only what's changed (new team members, updated goals, new terminology, stale data)
  4. Update files with confirmed changes
  5. Don't re-ask about things already validated

Important Notes

Read references/operating-principles.md for shared principles (data scope, DM flagging, connector unavailability).

  • Never assume, always validate. If something looks like a team member but you're not sure, ask.
  • Flag gaps explicitly. "I couldn't find X" is more useful than silently skipping it.
  • Stale data is worse than no data. Always check recency and flag anything older than ~2 months.

© techwolf-ai, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 6 other files (references) in plugins/people-management/skills/setup of techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/context-templates.md
  • references/discovery-phases.md
  • references/management-framework.md
  • references/operating-principles.md
  • references/performance-framework.md
  • references/values-guide.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2ee7841

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Questions about Setup

What does Setup do?

Interactive onboarding that discovers team structure, terminology, development goals, performance and management frameworks, organizational values, and ways of working by crawling Slack, Notion…. Setup is an agent skill from techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit. Interactive onboarding that discovers team structure, terminology, development goals, performance and management frameworks, organizational values, and ways of working by crawling Slack, Notion, Google Drive, Gmail, and Calendar.

When should I use Setup?

Setup fits situations like: tasks that involve Email management.

How do I install Setup in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit --skill setup -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/people-management/skills/setup in techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit) into .claude/skills/setup in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Setup in Codex?

Run `npx skills add techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit --skill setup -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/people-management/skills/setup in techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit) into .agents/skills/setup in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Setup in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit --skill setup -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/setup, .gemini/skills/setup, .github/skills/setup and .opencode/skills/setup in your project.

What does Setup need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Setup is instructions for the agent only.

Does Setup access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Setup safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Setup use?

Setup is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Setup use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 8.3k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Setup?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Setup: Connect Apps with Composio (ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills, 77k stars), Composio Cloud Tools (quarqlabs/argus, 277 stars), Connect (ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills, 77k stars) and Ops Inbox (davepoon/buildwithclaude, 3.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Setup?

techwolf-ai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit, which has 132 GitHub stars. The repository holds 29 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 29, 2026.

Source: techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.