Setup & Isolation Skill

Purpose

Safety first. To enforce defense-in-depth and prevent broken code from polluting the repository's main or active development branches, this skill uses Git Worktrees to isolate the agent's workspace. All generation and validation occur in this sandbox.

SOP: Workspace Isolation Workflow

Step 0 - Environment Verification

Before creating a worktree, verify the project environment is ready:

1. Confirm the .agents/ directory exists at the repo root. If not, the project is not nemodev-enabled — flag this to the user.
2. Check for AGENTS.md at the repo root. This is the behavior contract that governs all downstream skills.
3. Verify Git is installed and the current directory is a Git repository.

Step 1 - Baseline Check

Verify the repository state is clean:

1. Run git status. Proceed only if the working tree is clean.
2. If there are uncommitted changes, halt and ask the user to commit or stash them.
3. Run git fetch origin to ensure you're working from the latest state.