Setup status
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Show how the apache-magpie framework is adopted in the current repo, then adjust that setup in place. Renders a Markdown adoption dashboard: install method and pin, drift, the wired agent targets, the installed skill families, and symlink health. From the same view the user can add or drop agent targets and skill families; the actual change runs through the setup skill.
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setup-status
Render a one-glance picture of how apache-magpie is adopted in this repo, then let the user reconfigure it without leaving the view. The dashboard answers the questions an operator actually asks: which install method and version are pinned, has the snapshot drifted, which agent targets are wired, which skill families are installed, and are the symlinks healthy.
This skill is the configuration view of adoption. It is read-
only on its own; every change it offers is carried out by
delegating to /magpie-setup — the one skill
that owns adoption mutation. For a deep integrity / health
check (lock parsing, per-check ✓/✗ matrix, permission-hygiene
audit, ASF comdev MCP prerequisites, stale-worktree sweep), use
/magpie-setup verify; this skill links to
it rather than duplicating its checks.
Adopter overrides
Before running the default behaviour documented below, this skill consults (in order, first hit wins):
.apache-magpie-local/setup-status.md— personal, gitignored..apache-magpie-overrides/setup-status.md— committed, project-wide.
Both files are applied if present. See
docs/setup/agentic-overrides.md
for the full lookup contract.
Hard rule: agents NEVER modify the snapshot under
<adopter-repo>/.apache-magpie/. Local modifications go in the
override file. Framework changes go via PR to
apache/magpie.
Snapshot drift
Also at the top of every run, this skill compares the gitignored
.apache-magpie.local.lock (per-machine fetch) against the
committed .apache-magpie.lock (the project pin). On mismatch the
skill surfaces the gap and proposes
/magpie-setup upgrade. The proposal is
non-blocking; surfacing the drift is itself part of this skill's
dashboard, so the comparison feeds Step 1
rather than gating the run.
Inputs
Skill directives (how the user invokes the skill):
| Input | Effect |
|---|---|
| (none) | Render the dashboard, then offer adjustments interactively. |
--no-adjust | Render only; skip the reconfigure offer. |
adjust | Skip straight to the reconfigure flow after a brief state recap. |
Collector flags (passed through to
scripts/collect_status.py):
| Flag | Effect |
|---|---|
--repo <path> | Inspect a repo other than the current git top-level. |
--format md | The Markdown dashboard (default). |
--format json | The raw machine-readable fields (collect.md); add --pretty to indent. |
The default output is the Markdown dashboard, rendered deterministically by the collector.
Prerequisites
- A git checkout (
git rev-parse --show-toplevelsucceeds), or an explicit--repo <path>. python3onPATHfor the deterministic collector (scripts/collect_status.py). No third-party packages, no network access.
This skill reads only framework-internal, on-disk state (lock
files, symlinks, .gitignore, the post-checkout hook). It reads
no external or private content, so the prompt-injection and
Privacy-LLM gate-checks do not apply.
Step 0 — Pre-flight check
- Resolve the repo root (
--repoif given, elsegit rev-parse --show-toplevel). - Apply adopter overrides and the drift preamble above.
- Adopted? If
<committed-lock>(.apache-magpie.lock) is absent, the repo is not adopted. Say so, point at/magpie-setupto adopt, and stop — there is no state to render.
Step 1 — Render the dashboard
The collector renders the dashboard itself. Run it (it never writes and never fetches):
python3 <framework>/skills/setup-status/scripts/collect_status.py
(From a normal adopter the script lives under the snapshot at
.apache-magpie/skills/setup-status/scripts/; invoke it via the
magpie-setup-status symlink's resolved path. The default output
is the Markdown dashboard; pass --format json only when tooling
needs the raw fields — see collect.md.)
OUTPUT CONTRACT — non-negotiable. Present the script's Markdown output verbatim (it is already GitHub-flavoured Markdown — let the harness render the pipe table). Do not: re-draw it as a box-drawing/ASCII table; drop the
servesbullet legend (it carries the agents each directory serves, including the wholeuniversalcluster); add a Reads column back into the table (that is what made it wrap and break); recompute the verdict; or "prettify" the layout. The script, not the agent, owns the rendering, precisely because an LLM formatting pass reliably mangles it (drops the agents-served legend, renames columns, re-introduces the wide column). If you find yourself rebuilding the table, stop and paste the script output instead.
The renderer owns the headline, the agent-target table plus its
serves legend (so the universal cluster and every registry
vendor always appear), the family roster, and the drift /
integrity summary.
Full layout reference, the health-verdict rules, and mode-aware
interpretation: render.md.
Step 2 — Interpret (lightly)
After printing the verbatim dashboard, optionally add a one-line
mode-aware note where it helps — without re-tabulating or
contradicting the script output. Example: a method:local
framework checkout commits its symlinks and has no snapshot or
local lock, so the absent snapshot is healthy there but a fault
for a normal adopter (render.md).
Step 3 — Offer adjustments
Unless --no-adjust was passed, end the dashboard with the
reconfigure offer. Detect the obvious deltas (a registry target
present on disk but not wired; an opt-in family not installed;
dangling symlinks; drift) and present each as a concrete,
confirmable change. On confirmation, delegate to
/magpie-setup with the right flags
(agents:<list>, skill-families:<list>, or upgrade) — this
skill never edits symlinks, locks, or .gitignore itself.
Full gap-detection and delegation rules: adjust.md.
Hard rules
- Read-only on its own; mutation only via setup. This skill
never writes a symlink, a lock file, or
.gitignore. Every change is delegated to/magpie-setup, preserving the framework's single source of truth for adoption mutation. - Propose before applying. Each adjustment is a proposal the
user explicitly confirms before the delegated
/magpie-setuprun starts. No silent reconfiguration. - Do not duplicate
verify. For deep integrity, permission hygiene, comdev-MCP prerequisites, and the stale-worktree sweep, point the user at/magpie-setup verifyrather than re-implementing those checks here. - Never invent state. Report only what the collector observed. If a field is unknown (e.g. upstream-tip drift needs network), say it was not checked and name the skill that does check it.
References
collect.md— the collector's JSON field reference.render.md— dashboard layout, health-verdict rules, mode-aware interpretation.adjust.md— gap detection and the delegation contract to/magpie-setup.scripts/collect_status.py— the deterministic, read-only state collector./magpie-setup— adoption mutation:adopt.md,upgrade.md, theagents.mdtarget registry, and the Golden rules./magpie-setup verify— the deep integrity / health check this dashboard complements.AGENTS.md— framework conventions and the placeholder convention.docs/setup/agentic-overrides.md— the override contract every skill consults.