set-up-stack-profile

Use when starting in a repo with no .claude/stack-profile.md, when the stack changed, or when the user asks which plugins and skills to use. Detects the stack, asks only the gaps, writes the profile,

SKILL.md

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Set Up Stack Profile

Writes .claude/stack-profile.md, the file every other skill reads first. Schema and precedence: stack-profile.md. Question wording and plugin map: wizard-reference.md.

1. Audit (change nothing)

cat .claude/stack-profile.md 2>/dev/null; cat ~/.claude/stack-profile.md 2>/dev/null
ls -a | head -50
ls pnpm-lock.yaml package-lock.json bun.lock bun.lockb yarn.lock uv.lock go.mod Cargo.toml pyproject.toml mise.toml .tool-versions .nvmrc justfile Makefile vercel.json supabase/config.toml drizzle.config.* sqlc.yaml biome.json* .golangci.y*ml 2>/dev/null
ls .github/workflows .gitlab-ci.yml 2>/dev/null; ls *.tf infra 2>/dev/null | head
grep -hE '"(react|vue|nuxt|next|hono|drizzle-orm|zod|@opentelemetry/[a-z-]+|@sentry/[a-z]+|@anthropic-ai/sdk|openai)"' package.json 2>/dev/null

Apply the detection table in stack-profile.md to the results. Result: a draft profile with each key marked detected (with the file as evidence), inherited (from ~/.claude) or gap.

2. Decide

State Action
No project profile Full run: steps 3–7.
Profile exists, nothing changed Print "already in place" with the profile and stop.
Profile exists, detection differs or keys are missing Delta run: show the diff (key: old → detected), ask only about changed and unknown keys.
profile_version older than the schema Migrate, show the diff, confirm.

Never ask what the repo already answers. A detected value is shown for confirmation in the final summary, not asked as a question.

3. Ask only the gaps

Use AskUserQuestion, at most 4 questions per round, the recommended option first and labelled (Recommended). Round order: (1) language and framework gaps, (2) backend, database, hosting, (3) tooling (package manager, lint/format, task runner, tests, CI), (4) observability, AI. Skip a round when it has no gaps. Skip questions the answer of an earlier round made moot (no backend question for frontend-only static sites unless the user said otherwise).

Recommended options come from the Adopt rows in tech-radar.md. Before recommending a version-sensitive tool, check the live version per version-protocol.md. A deviation the user picks goes into the profile's notes with the reason.

Stop at three rounds if the user answers "defaults": fill the rest from the radar and say so.

4. Write the profile

  • Write .claude/stack-profile.md (create .claude/). Frontmatter exactly per the schema; notes below list deviations and why.
  • Keys the user marked none are written as none; undecided keys are omitted.
  • Show the final file and the diff against the old one.
  • Offer (do not do unasked) a user-wide default: ~/.claude/stack-profile.md holding only taste keys (package_manager, runtime_manager, lint_format, tests, task_runner, ci, observability). Never copy project-specific keys (frontend, database, hosting) into it.
  • Suggest adding .claude/stack-profile.md to version control: it is team knowledge, not a secret.

5. Output: plugins to enable

Marketplace name is ai-development-skills; install id is <plugin>@ai-development-skills. Map profile → plugins with the table in wizard-reference.md. Always devcore. Print the exact commands:

/plugin marketplace add VelimirMueller/ai-development-skills
/plugin install devcore@ai-development-skills
/plugin install <other>@ai-development-skills

Plugins already enabled (/plugin lists them) are not repeated. Each plugin depends on devcore, so installing any of them installs it too.

6. Output: ordered skills to run

Print a numbered list, only skills that apply and whose result is not already in place. Order template and rules: wizard-reference.md. Typical start: validate-env → lint/format → TypeScript → tests → CI → security headers → logging/observability → feature skills.

7. Output: gaps no skill covers

For each profile choice with no matching skill in an installed or listed plugin (an unusual framework, a hosting provider not in the schema, other:<x> values), list it and offer extend-skillset. Do not run it unasked.

8. Verify

head -30 .claude/stack-profile.md

Expected: starts with ---, has profile_version: 1, parses as YAML, every value is in the schema's allowed list (or other:<name>). A second run of this skill prints "already in place".

Edge cases

  • Monorepo: ask once whether to write one root profile or one per package; nearest profile wins.
  • Conflicting evidence (two lockfiles): treat as a gap; ask which is canonical and suggest deleting the other.
  • No .git: still write the profile; mention that it is untracked.