setup-guide

A setup reference for configuring Zeph, including its language-model providers, memory, tools, channels, and optional features. It shows the environment variables and TOML settings used to turn these parts on.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing an LLM provider, setting API endpoints or models, configuring embeddings, or enabling features such as Telegram, Qdrant, A2A, MCP, Candle, or the orchestrator.
Why use it?
It removes the need to guess which settings control Zeph or how provider connections are configured. It also keeps setup details for local and cloud models in one place.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/bug-ops/zeph/setup-guide
Any agent
npx skills add bug-ops/zeph --skill setup-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bug-ops/zeph

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,658 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00084 $0.02658
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01329
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00532
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00266

Measured 2d ago against content hash 65f906aadd96, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-guide scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

export ZEPH_TOOLS_SHELL_ALLOWED_COMMANDS=curl,wget
.zeph/skills/setup-guide/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup Guide

LLM Provider

Ollama (default):

export ZEPH_LLM_PROVIDER=ollama
export ZEPH_LLM_BASE_URL=http://localhost:11434
export ZEPH_LLM_MODEL=mistral:7b

Claude:

export ZEPH_LLM_PROVIDER=claude
export ZEPH_CLAUDE_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

Cloud model settings in config/default.toml:

  • llm.cloud.model (default: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929)
  • llm.cloud.max_tokens (default: 4096)

OpenAI (or any OpenAI-compatible API):

export ZEPH_LLM_PROVIDER=openai
export ZEPH_OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...

Config in config/default.toml:

[llm.openai]
base_url = "https://api.openai.com/v1"
model = "gpt-5.2"
max_tokens = 4096
embedding_model = "text-embedding-3-small"
reasoning_effort = "medium"  # low, medium, high (for reasoning models)
  • llm.openai.base_url: API endpoint (change for Together, Groq, Fireworks, etc.)
  • llm.openai.model: chat model name
  • llm.openai.max_tokens: max response tokens (default: 4096)
  • llm.openai.embedding_model: optional, enables embeddings support
  • llm.openai.reasoning_effort: optional, low/medium/high for reasoning models (o3, etc.)

Embeddings

export ZEPH_LLM_EMBEDDING_MODEL=qwen3-embedding

Used for skill matching and semantic memory. Pull model first:

ollama pull qwen3-embedding

Memory

SQLite storage:

export ZEPH_SQLITE_PATH=.zeph/data/zeph.db

Config: memory.history_limit (default: 50) — recent messages loaded into context.

Semantic Memory (Qdrant)

export ZEPH_MEMORY_SEMANTIC_ENABLED=true
export ZEPH_QDRANT_URL=http://localhost:6334
export ZEPH_MEMORY_RECALL_LIMIT=5

Start Qdrant:

docker compose up -d qdrant

When semantic memory is enabled and Qdrant is reachable, skill embeddings are persisted in a zeph_skills collection. On startup, only changed skills are re-embedded (BLAKE3 content hash comparison). The Qdrant HNSW index is used for skill matching instead of in-memory cosine similarity. If Qdrant is unavailable, the agent falls back to in-memory matching.

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 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 · 296 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 65f906aadd96

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository bug-ops/zeph (57 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 2,658 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.