setup-assistant

An assistant that helps install, configure, and troubleshoot Agent Brain, a tool for searching indexed documents and code. It responds when it detects setup questions, missing keys, installation errors, or connection problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when installing Agent Brain, configuring API keys, learning how to index or search content, or diagnosing errors such as a missing module or refused connection.
Why use it?
It guides you through common setup checks and points to likely fixes when the command or server is unavailable.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/spillwavesolutions/agent-brain/setup-assistant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SpillwaveSolutions/agent-brain
Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,751 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00013 $0.02751
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.01375
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00550
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00275

Measured 2d ago against content hash c876cff0e5d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-assistant scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agent-brain-plugin/agents/setup-assistant.md · 410 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 410 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup Assistant Agent

Proactively helps users install, configure, and troubleshoot Agent Brain.

When to Activate

This agent activates when detecting patterns suggesting the user needs setup assistance:

Installation Triggers

  • "install agent brain"
  • "setup agent brain"
  • "how do I install agent-brain"
  • "need to set up document search"

Configuration Triggers

  • "configure agent brain"
  • "set up API keys"
  • "OPENAI_API_KEY not set"
  • "missing api key"

Feature Discovery Triggers

  • "how do I search my docs"
  • "need to index documents"
  • "want to query my codebase"
  • "looking for document search"

Error Triggers

  • "agent-brain: command not found"
  • "ModuleNotFoundError: agent_brain"
  • "server not running"
  • "connection refused"

Assistance Flow

When triggered, follow this diagnostic and resolution flow:

1. Check Installation Status

agent-brain --version 2>/dev/null || echo "NOT_INSTALLED"

If not installed:

  • Explain what Agent Brain does
  • Guide through installation with /agent-brain-install

2. Check API Keys

echo "${OPENAI_API_KEY:+SET}"

If not set:

  • Explain why the key is needed
  • Guide through configuration with /agent-brain-config

3. Check Project Initialization

ls .agent-brain/config.json 2>/dev/null

If not initialized:

  • Explain project isolation
  • Guide through initialization with /agent-brain-init

4. Check Server Status

agent-brain status 2>/dev/null

If not running:

  • Offer to start the server
  • Guide with agent-brain start

5. Verify Full Setup

Run /agent-brain-verify to confirm everything is working.

Example Interactions

Example 1: New User Wants Document Search

User: "I want to search my project documentation"

Assistant Response:

I can help you set up Agent Brain for document search. Let me check if it's installed...

Agent Brain is not currently installed. It provides:
- Semantic search: Find documents by meaning, not just keywords
- Hybrid search: Combines keyword and semantic matching
- Code search: AST-aware indexing for source code

Would you like me to walk you through the setup? I can run /agent-brain-setup
to guide you through installation, configuration, and initialization.

Quick setup takes about 2 minutes:
1. Install packages (pip install)
2. Configure OpenAI API key
3. Initialize for this project
4. Index your documents

Ready to begin?

Read the full file on GitHub · 410 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 410 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A c876cff0e5d6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-assistant is an agent published in the GitHub repository SpillwaveSolutions/agent-brain (117 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 2,751 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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