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name: cbm-onboard\ndescription: Register maintained or ephemeral Git checkouts with codebase-memory-mcp, keep long-lived indexes current through non-clobbering Git hooks, and tear down ephemeral indexes by exact deterministic identity. Use when asked to index, onboard, register, remove, or keep a repository current in Codebase Memory.

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Onboard a repository to Codebase Memory

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Use the bundled scripts for either a long-lived maintained checkout or a\nshort-lived checkout with an explicit onboard/teardown lifecycle. Never index a\ndirectory containing several repositories.

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Requirements

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Workflow

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  1. Resolve the target Git repository. Default to the current repository.

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  2. For a long-lived maintained checkout, run:

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    <cbm-onboard-skill-directory>/scripts/cbm-onboard.sh <repo-path>\n
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    The script resolves linked worktrees to the maintained checkout, reconciles\na marked baseline inside .cbmignore, preserves custom exclusions, and adds\na managed reindex block to Git's configured post-commit, post-merge, and\npost-checkout hooks without deleting an existing shell hook. The\npost-checkout block carries a [ \"$3\" = \"1\" ] || exit 0 guard so it only\nfires on branch checkouts, not per-file checkouts. A symlinked hook is\nfollowed to the file it resolves to, which is what a dotfiles-managed hooks\ndirectory needs, and the write lands in whatever repo owns that file. A\nsymlink with no regular-file target is refused, and a .cbmignore symlink\nis refused outright. A non-shell foreign hook is left unchanged with a\nwarning because composing it would be unsafe.

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    Linked worktrees share the control checkout's Git hooks; they cannot have\nindependent hooks. Pass --this-checkout only to select the supplied\ncheckout's .cbmignore and initial index. Hook installation still resolves\nthrough Git's shared hooks directory.

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    3. \n

  3. For an ephemeral checkout, run the complete lifecycle:

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    <cbm-onboard-skill-directory>/scripts/cbm-onboard.sh \\\n  --no-hooks --this-checkout <worktree-path>\n# Use the worktree, then:\n<cbm-onboard-skill-directory>/scripts/cbm-teardown.sh <worktree-path>\n
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    --no-hooks reconciles only the selected checkout's .cbmignore, performs a\nfull index under a deterministic name derived from its canonical physical\npath, and never enters hook resolution or installation. --this-checkout is\nload-bearing for a linked worktree: without it, onboarding deliberately\nresolves to the main checkout, matching maintained-checkout behavior.

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    Teardown recomputes that exact identity and calls delete_project directly;\nit never scans projects, edits repository files or Git configuration, or\nremoves hooks or worktrees. Both a successful deletion and an exact\nalready-missing response are success, so teardown is safe to repeat.

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  4. Verify the project through the available Codebase Memory MCP interface with\nindex_status or list_projects.

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  5. Report node and edge counts when available.

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  6. Tell the user that .cbmignore is tracked and should be committed. The Git\nhooks are clone-local, so rerun onboarding after a fresh clone.

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    7. \n
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The initial index uses full mode. Maintained-checkout post-commit/post-merge/post-checkout\nindexing uses fast mode in a detached process and always exits 0, so a broken\nindex never fails a commit, merge, or checkout. Re-running onboarding is\nidempotent.

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Repositories dominated by YAML, prose, or shell may produce a thin graph; say\nso rather than refusing to index them.

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