setup

An interactive setup wizard for configuring PAI storage, embeddings, agent settings, and indexing. Embeddings are numerical representations used to compare the meaning of text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when installing or initially configuring PAI and its storage, embedding, agent, and indexing settings.
Why use it?
It brings the main configuration steps into one guided process instead of requiring separate manual setup.

Command

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 commands/mnott/pai/setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mnott/PAI
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 304 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.00304
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9dd520f776d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to backup — 16 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

docs/commands/setup.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

pai setup

Interactive setup wizard — configure storage, embeddings, agent config, and indexing

Aliases: install

Synopsis

pai setup

See also

pai backup · pai clear-names · pai daemon · pai db · pai end · pai help · pai identity · pai kg · pai mcp · pai memory · pai notify · pai observation · pai obsidian · pai pause · pai project · pai projects · pai registry · pai restore · pai session · pai sessions · pai shell-init · pai skill · pai task · pai topic · pai update · pai zettel

Run pai help <area> to read any of these in the terminal.

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 · 21 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9dd520f776d6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a command published in the GitHub repository mnott/PAI (45 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 304 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to backup, differing in 16 lines, and is treated as a copy.