v-init

You are running /v:init — the Compound V capability + stance setup for this project. Argument (optional): {{args}} may name a stance to pre-select (balanced | conservative | cost-aware | claude-only); otherwise you recommend one.

This walkthrough IS the configurator. There is no separate shipped playground or runtime UI — the stance is set here and in routing-policy.md. A standalone HTML configurator, if it exists, is only an optional dev tool, never a shipped surface. Do not claim otherwise.

Run the steps in order. Do not batch installs — detect everything first, then walk the user through missing pieces one at a time, confirming after each.

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Step 1 — Detect capabilities

Probe each, and remember the result. Do not install anything yet.

1a. Codex CLI (and verify the EXEC flag surface)

command -v codex

If absent → Codex is not available (record it; routing will be Claude-only).

If present, verify the flags Compound V depends on live in the codex exec subcommand help — not merely in the merged top-level help. This is the check that caught the real adapter bug (PRD §3): --ask-for-approval appears in codex --help but is absent from codex exec --help, because it is a top-level/interactive flag. Asserting against the wrong help would have shipped an adapter that fails on every job.

# Assert the worker flags are in the EXEC subcommand help specifically:
codex exec --help 2>/dev/null | grep -q -- '--cd'                  || echo "MISSING --cd in exec help"
codex exec --help 2>/dev/null | grep -q -- '--sandbox'             || echo "MISSING --sandbox in exec help"
codex exec --help 2>/dev/null | grep -q -- '--skip-git-repo-check' || echo "MISSING --skip-git-repo-check in exec help"
codex exec --help 2>/dev/null | grep -q -- '--model'              || echo "MISSING --model in exec help"
codex exec --help 2>/dev/null | grep -q -- '--output-last-message' || echo "MISSING --output-last-message in exec help"
# And confirm the bug-marker flag is NOT in exec help (it must be top-level only):
if codex exec --help 2>/dev/null | grep -q -- '--ask-for-approval'; then
  echo "WARN: --ask-for-approval appears in exec help on this codex version — re-check the adapter"
fi