automate-before-manual
Installation
SKILL.md
Automate before manual
Before asking the user to click, install, create a token, configure DNS, or run something in their terminal:
1. Try automation first
- GitHub:
ghCLI or PAT from the secrets vault (see below) - Deploy: scripts in
docs/deploy-vps.md,scripts/deploy-*, GitHub Actions API - SSH: deploy keys documented in the project or secrets vault
- Azure:
az loginor service principal path documented in the repo
2. Secrets vault (relative paths only)
Never hardcode absolute paths (C:\..., /home/...) in skills, commits, or chat copy.
From the project repo root, the shared vault is: