setup

An onboarding wizard for configuring Ouroboros, a tool that coordinates AI-assisted development tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides first-time setup for Claude Code or GitHub Copilot CLI, including choosing a default model and registering Ouroboros for future sessions.
Why use it?
It helps set up the runtime, choose an available model, save configuration, and connect the required MCP server without editing several configuration files by hand.

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/q00/ouroboros/setup
Any agent
npx skills add Q00/ouroboros --skill setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,003 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 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 $0.00011 $0.06003
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.03002
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.01201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00600

Measured today against content hash f2e13fb62a99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

setup scanned grade D with 3 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 today.

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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

Ubuntu: sudo apt install python3.12

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh # vendor one-liner (last resort)

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh # vendor one-liner (last resort)
skills/setup/SKILL.md · 710 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 710 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/ouroboros:setup

Guided onboarding wizard that converts users into power users.

Standalone users (Codex, pip install): Use ouroboros setup --runtime codex in your terminal instead. This skill runs inside a Claude Code session. For other runtime backends, the CLI ouroboros setup command handles configuration. For full install and onboarding instructions, see Getting Started.

GitHub Copilot CLI users: Run ouroboros setup --runtime copilot (after pipx install 'ouroboros-ai[mcp]' or uv tool install 'ouroboros-ai[mcp]'). Setup will:

  1. Live-discover available models from the GitHub Copilot models API (uses gh auth token) and let you pick a default. A bundled fallback list is used when offline.
  2. Write orchestrator.runtime_backend = copilot and llm.backend = copilot plus your chosen default into ~/.ouroboros/config.yaml.
  3. Register the MCP server in ~/.copilot/mcp-config.json so the next copilot session can call ooo ... skills.

Hyphen Anthropic IDs that the Ouroboros defaults use (for example claude-opus-4-6) are auto-mapped at runtime to the dotted form Copilot CLI expects (claude-opus-4.6), so existing config files keep working when you switch backends.

Usage

ooo setup
/ouroboros:setup
/ouroboros:setup --uninstall

Note: Claude setup does two things:

  1. Runtime configuration — selects the Claude Agent SDK profile on MCP 1.x
  2. CLAUDE.md integration (optional) — per-project, adds an Ouroboros command reference block

It deliberately leaves ~/.claude/mcp.json untouched because marketplace plugin wiring owns that file. [claude] and its explicit [claude-sdk] alias use MCP 1.x. The plugin launches [mcp] in a separate MCP 2 process with the dependency-free [claude-cli] worker.


Setup Wizard Flow

When the user invokes this skill, guide them through an enhanced 6-step wizard with progressive disclosure and celebration checkpoints.

Read the full file on GitHub · 710 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. today Changed f2e13fb62a99
  2. 2d ago First seen · 710 lines · 11 tokens per session scan D 4dee8fcded7d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository Q00/ouroboros (5,747 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 6,003 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.