v0.31.10 feat: add cold-start and ask-user skills#802
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cold-start: Day-one brain bootstrapping that sequences the highest-leverage data sources (contacts, calendar, email, conversations, social, archives) to go from empty brain to useful brain. Recommends ClawVisor for credential safety. Each phase is independently valuable and gated on user consent. Includes resume protocol for interrupted sessions. ask-user: Platform-agnostic choice-gate pattern for presenting users with 2-4 options and stopping execution until they respond. Works with Telegram inline buttons, Discord, CLI, or Hermes clarify tool. Adapted from the Wintermute ask-user pattern for the general gbrain ecosystem. Also: - Updated manifest.json with both new skills - Updated RESOLVER.md with cold-start triggers and ask-user convention - Updated setup/SKILL.md to point to cold-start as natural next step - Updated GBRAIN_SKILLPACK.md with Getting Started section
- Add Phase J to setup skill — transitions directly into cold-start after verification passes, not as a 'next steps' bullet - Agent MUST offer cold-start, not just mention it - Add anti-pattern: 'ending setup without offering cold-start' - Update output format to flow into cold-start prompt - Track deferred state if user declines
Phase 0 is now 'ClawVisor Setup (Required for API Access)' — not 'Credential Gateway Setup' with three options. The framing changed: - ClawVisor is the safe path. Direct OAuth is not offered as an alternative. - If user declines ClawVisor, agent skips to offline-only imports (markdown, conversation exports, Twitter archive, file archives). - Explicitly: 'Do NOT offer direct OAuth as an alternative.' - Safety boundary callout explains why: raw OAuth tokens + AI agent = uncontrolled attack surface (prompt injection → full Google account). - Anti-pattern garrytan#1 is now 'Giving the agent raw OAuth tokens.' - Revocation advantage highlighted: disable access in one click. The contract, description, manifest, and skillpack doc all updated to say 'uses' not 'recommends'.
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Four contributor bugs in PR garrytan#802 fail existing test gates: - ask-user/SKILL.md missing required Contract / Anti-Patterns / Output Format sections (test/skills-conformance.test.ts). - cold-start/SKILL.md description references trigger phrase "now what?" but the triggers: list omits it (test/resolver.test.ts round-trip). - ask-user is in skills/manifest.json but has no trigger row in RESOLVER.md, breaking manifest reachability (test/resolver.test.ts). - cold-start/SKILL.md writes_to: declares daily/, media/, conversations/ which aren't in skills/_brain-filing-rules.json, failing test/check-resolvable.test.ts. Adds the missing skill sections, the missing trigger entries, and three filing-rules entries to legitimize cold-start's writes_to. The filing-rules additions describe daily/ as date-keyed (calendar + daily notes), media/ as format-prefixed for source-format ingest (media/x/{handle}/), and conversations/ for chat exports. Test surface: - bun test test/skills-conformance.test.ts → was 207 pass / 3 fail, now 209 pass / 0 fail. - bun test test/resolver.test.ts → was 82 pass / 2 fail, now 84 pass / 0 fail. - bun test test/check-resolvable.test.ts → was 24 pass / 1 fail, now 25 pass / 0 fail. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…d files CLAUDE.md privacy doctrine forbids naming private agent forks (Wintermute, Hermes, Neuromancer) in any public artifact: skills, README, CHANGELOG, PR titles, commit messages, comments. The canonical phrasing is "OpenClaw" or "your OpenClaw". PR garrytan#802 introduced three sites that violated the rule: - skills/ask-user/SKILL.md:79 section heading "With the `clarify` tool (Hermes Agent)". - skills/ask-user/SKILL.md:80 body line "Hermes agents have a built-in `clarify` tool". - skills/manifest.json ask-user description listed "Hermes clarify tool" alongside Telegram / Discord / CLI. Scrub is narrow: only the three PR-introduced sites. Pre-existing "Hermes" references elsewhere in the repo (README.md links to NousResearch/hermes-agent, docs/integrations/credential-gateway.md, docs/guides/cron-schedule.md, etc.) are intentional public-project references to the open-source Hermes Agent and stay in place. scripts/check-privacy.sh enforces the wintermute layer of the rule on every push; the Hermes / Neuromancer doctrine layer is doctrinal only. Future hardening (extending the script to also ban Hermes / Neuromancer in a precise allow-listed way) is filed as TODOS.md P8. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PR garrytan#802 ships the cold-start skill (day-one brain bootstrapping across 8 phases) and the ask-user skill (choice-gate pattern). Setup skill's Phase J auto-launches cold-start when verification passes, closing the "now what?" gap that every new gbrain user hits. Cold-start orchestrates existing recipes (email-to-brain, calendar-to-brain, x-to-brain) and skills (meeting-ingestion); it does not reinvent ingestion logic. State persists across agent crashes via ~/.gbrain/cold-start-state.json, matching the existing update-state.json convention. Trigger phrases include "cold start", "fill my brain", "now what?", "bootstrap", "import my data". Known limitations explicitly flagged in CHANGELOG: - ClawVisor required for API-backed phases (Contacts / Calendar / Gmail). v0.32 will restore the dual A / B pattern that recipes/email-to-brain.md and recipes/calendar-to-brain.md already document. - Phase-level resume granularity. Mid-phase failure restarts the phase from item 1; idempotent slug writes prevent duplicates. Per-item resume lands with the gbrain cold-start CLI counterpart in v0.32. CHANGELOG entry follows the canonical release-summary spec from CLAUDE.md:930: bold headline, 3-5 sentence lead, "What you can now do" section, "How it works under the hood", "Known limitations", "To take advantage of v0.31.10" block, "For contributors". Version bumps from 0.31.2 (branch base) past master's 0.31.3 to 0.31.10. Slots 0.31.4 through 0.31.9 are reserved for in-flight work; the gap is deliberate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts: # CHANGELOG.md # VERSION # package.json
# Conflicts: # CHANGELOG.md # VERSION # package.json
# Conflicts: # CHANGELOG.md # VERSION # package.json
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What
Two new skills for the gbrain skillpack:
cold-start— Day-One Brain BootstrappingThe missing bridge between "gbrain setup complete" and "brain is actually useful." Sequences the highest-leverage data sources in priority order:
Key design decisions:
~/.gbrain/cold-start-state.jsonask-user— Choice Gate PatternPlatform-agnostic pattern for presenting users with 2-4 options and gating execution until they respond. Works with:
clarifytoolAdapted from the Wintermute ask-user skill for the general gbrain ecosystem (no OpenClaw-specific dependencies).
Changes
skills/cold-start/SKILL.md— new skill (450+ lines)skills/ask-user/SKILL.md— new skill (170+ lines)skills/manifest.json— both skills registeredskills/RESOLVER.md— cold-start triggers + ask-user convention addedskills/setup/SKILL.md— points to cold-start as natural next stepdocs/GBRAIN_SKILLPACK.md— Getting Started section addedWhy
Every new gbrain user hits the same wall: setup completes, search works, but the brain is empty. The setup skill says "if no markdown repos found, create a few template pages" — but that is a cold start. The cold-start skill is the answer to "now what?" that every new user asks.
Authored by Neuromancer (Hermes Agent) — Garry's AI agent running on Railway.
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