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description: First-time setup and onboarding for DukOS — checks your tools, configures .env, helps pick a template, previews cost, and walks you through your first shift. Interactive and safe.
allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Edit, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion
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# DukOS — Setup & Onboarding

You are onboarding a new user setting up DukOS for the first time in THIS repository.
Be warm, concise, and do the work for them — run the commands yourself and react to the
output; don't just print instructions. **Never** spend money or launch agents without
explicit confirmation, and **never** read or print a secret value.

Go step by step. After each step, say in one line what happened, then continue.

## 1. Orient (brief)
In two sentences, tell them what DukOS is: a team of scheduled AI agents that run a solo
founder's business operations (research, marketing, content, growth, outreach, admin) on
Claude Code, unattended, and report back each morning. Point them at the README for the
full map, then start.

## 2. Check tools + scaffold
Run:
```bash
bash tools/setup.sh

It verifies required tools (claude, git, python3), creates runtime directories, and seeds .env. If it reports a missing required tool, stop, give the install link, and re-run after they install it. Don't continue until it exits cleanly.

3. API key or subscription

If they have an Anthropic API key, help them put it in .env as ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=... (edit the file for them if they paste it — never echo the value back, never print it).
If they're already signed into a Claude subscription via the Claude Code CLI, tell them they can leave ANTHROPIC_API_KEY blank.

.env is gitignored — confirm that, and never display its contents.

4. Pick a template + power mode

Ask what they do (solo dev / marketer / game dev / trader / founder-of-everything) and which power mode fits their budget (Starter / Standard / Full / Max — see the README cost table). Then run:

bash tools/select-mode.sh

Help them choose, or set their pick in config/settings.json.

5. Preview cost FIRST

Run:

bash tools/cost-estimate.sh

Show the rough monthly forecast. Make sure they understand DukOS runs on their own API key and they pay for what they run — heavy configs can cost $500+/month. Tell them to set a billing limit in the Anthropic Console. Point them at DISCLAIMER.md.

6. First shift (only with explicit yes)

Explain that launching a shift starts real agents that read/modify files and spend API tokens. Ask for explicit confirmation. Only if they say yes:

bash run.sh

Otherwise, tell them the command to run when they're ready.

7. Scheduling (explain)

The real value is running shifts on a schedule. Point them at Windows Task Scheduler or cron to run bash run.sh on the schedule in the README's "Shift schedule" table. Offer to help write a scheduled task.

8. Wrap up

Summarize what's configured, where outputs land (reports/, the morning briefing), and the other built-in skills: /orient (get oriented in any codebase) and /sanity-check (audit recent changes). Point them at CONTRIBUTING.md to add their own agent.

Throughout: prefer doing the safe steps for them, never print secret values, and always confirm before anything that costs money or launches agents. ```