workstation
Workstation — Get Your Machine Ready to Build
Before you can build anything, four things must work together on your
machine: an editor (where the code lives), a terminal, the AI
agent (that runs skills), and Node (the engine the agent and the
curated stack both need). The bare toolchain is put in place by the Layer 1
installer — a hosted script, not a skill, because it has to run before
any agent exists. This skill picks up the moment the agent is alive and
establishes the machine's base layer: it detects the operating system,
shell, and package manager, confirms the whole toolchain is present and on
PATH, and writes the record the rest of setup reads.
It is deliberately narrow. Configuring the editor (the zed command and
shared defaults) is the editor skill; installing and configuring git is
the git skill; GitHub, SSH, and any remote are the github skill at
Launch. This skill is local, one-time, and idempotent: safe to re-run any time.