wizard
Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through steps only they can perform. Use when provisioning infrastructure, setting up credentials or CI secrets, walking an unfamiliar third-party dashboard, or running a one-off migration or cutover. Don't invoke this for st
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/gongyijie85/mattpocock-skills-dsh/tree/main/skills/wizard
claude plugin marketplace add https://llmmart.ai/marketplace.json && claude plugin install gongyijie85-mattpocock-skills-dsh@llmmart
git clone https://github.com/gongyijie85/mattpocock-skills-dsh.git
The skills CLI installs just this skill, for any of its supported agents. Claude Code installs the whole gongyijie85/mattpocock-skills-dsh collection as a plugin from our marketplace. Git is the plain clone.
Skill manifest
Wizard
A wizard is a bash script that walks a human, step by step, through a manual procedure that's tedious to do by hand and tedious to re-explain to an AI every time. It opens each URL, says exactly what to click and copy, captures the values, writes them where they belong (.env, GitHub secrets), confirms at every stage, and shows how many stages are left. It might configure third-party services, run a one-off migration, or move the project from one state to another.
The delightful UX is already solved by template.sh: stage-by-stage progress, confirmation gates, cross-platform URL opening (including WSL), hidden secret entry, idempotent .env upserts, gh secret/gh variable writes, and a closing summary. Your job is only to scope the procedure and author its stages. The library above the STAGES marker is identical in every wizard; that consistency is the point: never hand-edit it.
A wizard is ephemeral by default: built for one run, saved to a scratch or scripts/ path, deleted when the job's done. Commit it only when the user wants a repeatable setup path that should live in the repo.
Process
1. Scope the procedure
Work out every manual step the human must take and every value that gets captured along the way. Read the repo first, don't ask cold:
- For setup:
.env,.env.example,.env.*,README,docker-compose*, framework config, and.github/workflows/*(everysecrets.*/vars.*reference is a value the wizard must produce). - For a migration or transition: the current state, the target state, and the irreversible actions between them.
Then show the user the ordered list of stages and the values each produces, and confirm: they may add, drop, or reorder.
Done when: every stage is named in order, and for each captured value you know (a) where the human gets it, (b) where it's written (.env, a GitHub secret, both, or nowhere; some stages are pure actions), and (c) whether it's secret (hidden entry) or public.
2. Map each stage's journey
For each stage, write the precise path a human follows: which URL to open, what to do there, where a value is shown, which variable it fills: e.g. "Dashboard → Developers → API keys → Reveal test key → copy". Where you don't actually know the current UI or the exact command, say so and ask the user or check the docs: never invent steps that may not exist.
Done when: every stage traces to concrete instructions a stranger could follow.
3. Author the wizard
Copy template.sh to the target path. Replace the example stage with one stage per step, in dependency order. Use the library helpers: stage, say/step, open_url, ask/ask_secret, write_env, set_secret/set_var, pause/confirm. Set TOTAL_STAGES to the number of stages you wrote.
Hold the bar the template sets: open the URL before asking for its value, use ask_secret for anything secret, write_env every persisted value, set_secret only the values CI actually needs, and confirm before any irreversible action. Each stage clears the screen so only the current step is visible: keep a stage to one focused task so nothing the human needs scrolls away. Don't touch the library above the marker.
4. Verify and hand off
bash -n <script>; runshellcheckif available.chmod +x <script>.- Don't run it end-to-end yourself: it opens browsers and blocks on human input. Trace it statically instead: every value from step 1 is captured and lands where step 1 said, and every
set_secretname exactly matches asecrets.*reference in CI. - Tell the user how to run it. If it's a repeatable setup path, commit it and link it from the README so the next person runs the script instead of asking an AI.
Files (mattpocock-skills-dsh)
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SKILL.md 4 KB
--- name: wizard description: Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through steps only they can perform. Use when provisioning infrastructure, setting up credentials or CI secrets, walking an unfamiliar third-party dashboard, or running a one-off migration or cutover. Don't invoke this for steps the agent can perform itself. --- # Wizard A **wizard** is a bash script that walks a human, step by step, through a manual procedure that's tedious to do by hand and tedious to re-explain to an AI every time. It opens each URL, says exactly what to click and copy, captures the values, writes them where they belong (`.env`, GitHub secrets), confirms at every stage, and shows how many stages are left. It might configure third-party services, run a one-off migration, or move the project from one state to another. The delightful UX is already solved by [template.sh](template.sh): stage-by-stage progress, confirmation gates, cross-platform URL opening (including WSL), hidden secret entry, idempotent `.env` upserts, `gh secret`/`gh variable` writes, and a closing summary. **Your job is only to scope the procedure and author its stages.** The library above the `STAGES` marker is identical in every wizard; that consistency is the point: never hand-edit it. A wizard is ephemeral by default: built for one run, saved to a scratch or `scripts/` path, deleted when the job's done. Commit it only when the user wants a repeatable setup path that should live in the repo. ## Process ### 1. Scope the procedure Work out every manual step the human must take and every value that gets captured along the way. Read the repo first, don't ask cold: - For setup: `.env`, `.env.example`, `.env.*`, `README`, `docker-compose*`, framework config, and `.github/workflows/*` (every `secrets.*` / `vars.*` reference is a value the wizard must produce). - For a migration or transition: the current state, the target state, and the irreversible actions between them. Then show the user the ordered list of stages and the values each produces, and confirm: they may add, drop, or reorder. **Done when:** every stage is named in order, and for each captured value you know (a) where the human gets it, (b) where it's written (`.env`, a GitHub secret, both, or nowhere; some stages are pure actions), and (c) whether it's secret (hidden entry) or public. ### 2. Map each stage's journey For each stage, write the precise path a human follows: which URL to open, what to do there, where a value is shown, which variable it fills: e.g. "Dashboard → Developers → API keys → Reveal test key → copy". Where you don't actually know the current UI or the exact command, say so and ask the user or check the docs: never invent steps that may not exist. **Done when:** every stage traces to concrete instructions a stranger could follow. ### 3. Author the wizard Copy `template.sh` to the target path. Replace the example stage with one `stage` per step, in dependency order. Use the library helpers: `stage`, `say`/`step`, `open_url`, `ask`/`ask_secret`, `write_env`, `set_secret`/`set_var`, `pause`/`confirm`. Set `TOTAL_STAGES` to the number of stages you wrote. Hold the bar the template sets: open the URL before asking for its value, use `ask_secret` for anything secret, `write_env` every persisted value, `set_secret` only the values CI actually needs, and `confirm` before any irreversible action. Each `stage` clears the screen so only the current step is visible: keep a stage to one focused task so nothing the human needs scrolls away. Don't touch the library above the marker. ### 4. Verify and hand off - `bash -n <script>`; run `shellcheck` if available. - `chmod +x <script>`. - Don't run it end-to-end yourself: it opens browsers and blocks on human input. Trace it statically instead: every value from step 1 is captured and lands where step 1 said, and every `set_secret` name exactly matches a `secrets.*` reference in CI. - Tell the user how to run it. If it's a repeatable setup path, commit it and link it from the README so the next person runs the script instead of asking an AI. -
template.sh 8.4 KB
#!/usr/bin/env bash # # A wizard walks a human through a manual procedure, step by step. # Generated by the wizard skill. # # Everything above the "STAGES" marker is the wizard library: do not hand-edit # it. Author the per-step stages below the marker. set -euo pipefail # ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Wizard library: delightful, consistent UX, identical across every wizard. # ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── if [[ -t 1 ]] && command -v tput >/dev/null 2>&1 && [[ "$(tput colors 2>/dev/null || echo 0)" -ge 8 ]]; then BOLD=$(tput bold); DIM=$(tput dim); RESET=$(tput sgr0) BLUE=$(tput setaf 4); GREEN=$(tput setaf 2); YELLOW=$(tput setaf 3); RED=$(tput setaf 1) else BOLD=""; DIM=""; RESET=""; BLUE=""; GREEN=""; YELLOW=""; RED="" fi # Author sets this at the top of the stages section. TOTAL_STAGES=0 _STAGE_INDEX=0 ENV_FILE="${ENV_FILE:-.env}" WRITTEN_ENV=() # KEYs written to ENV_FILE this run WRITTEN_SECRET=() # secret NAMEs set this run SKIPPED=() # things we couldn't do (e.g. gh missing) # _clear wipes the terminal so only the current step is on screen. No-op when # output isn't a terminal, so piped logs stay readable. _clear() { [[ -t 1 ]] || return 0 if command -v tput >/dev/null 2>&1; then tput clear; else printf '\033[2J\033[3J\033[H'; fi } # banner "Title" shows the opening frame: what this wizard does. banner() { _clear printf '\n%s%s %s%s\n' "$BOLD" "$BLUE" "$1" "$RESET" printf '%s %s stages%s\n\n' "$DIM" "$TOTAL_STAGES" "$RESET" printf '%s You drive the browser; this wizard tells you exactly what to do and\n' "$DIM" printf ' captures the values you copy back. Stop any time with Ctrl-C and re-run\n' printf ' later, since it remembers values already saved.%s\n' "$RESET" pause "Ready to start?" } # stage "Name" clears the screen, then announces a stage and shows progress. # Clearing keeps only the current step on screen. stage() { _clear _STAGE_INDEX=$((_STAGE_INDEX + 1)) printf '\n%s%s▸ Stage %s/%s · %s%s\n' \ "$BOLD" "$BLUE" "$_STAGE_INDEX" "$TOTAL_STAGES" "$1" "$RESET" } # say "..." prints a plain instruction line. say() { printf ' %s\n' "$1"; } # step "..." is a numbered-feeling action the human takes in the browser. step() { printf ' %s•%s %s\n' "$BLUE" "$RESET" "$1"; } note() { printf ' %s%s%s\n' "$DIM" "$1" "$RESET"; } warn() { printf ' %s⚠ %s%s\n' "$YELLOW" "$1" "$RESET"; } # open_url URL opens it in the human's browser, cross-platform incl. WSL. open_url() { local url="$1" printf ' %s↗ opening%s %s\n' "$GREEN" "$RESET" "$url" { if command -v wslview >/dev/null 2>&1; then wslview "$url" elif command -v explorer.exe >/dev/null 2>&1; then explorer.exe "$url" elif command -v xdg-open >/dev/null 2>&1; then xdg-open "$url" elif command -v open >/dev/null 2>&1; then open "$url" else warn "couldn't open a browser; visit it manually: $url"; fi } >/dev/null 2>&1 || warn "couldn't open a browser, so visit it manually: $url" } # pause "msg" waits for the human to confirm they've done the manual part. pause() { printf ' %s%s%s ' "$DIM" "${1:-Press Enter to continue}" "$RESET" read -r _ || true } # confirm "question" is a y/N gate; returns success on yes. confirm() { local reply="" printf ' %s? %s [y/N] ' "$YELLOW" "$1" read -r reply || true [[ "$reply" =~ ^[Yy] ]] } # _existing KEY: current value of KEY in ENV_FILE, if any. _existing() { [[ -f "$ENV_FILE" ]] || return 1 local line; line=$(grep -E "^${1}=" "$ENV_FILE" | tail -n1) || return 1 printf '%s' "${line#*=}" } # ask KEY "Prompt" reads a value into $KEY. Offers the existing .env value as # a default on re-runs (Enter keeps it). Visible input (non-secret). ask() { local key="$1" prompt="$2" current input current=$(_existing "$key" || true) if [[ -n "$current" ]]; then printf ' %s%s%s %s[Enter keeps current]%s ' "$BOLD" "$prompt" "$RESET" "$DIM" "$RESET" else printf ' %s%s%s ' "$BOLD" "$prompt" "$RESET" fi read -r input || true [[ -z "$input" && -n "$current" ]] && input="$current" printf -v "$key" '%s' "$input" } # ask_secret KEY "Prompt" is like ask, but input is hidden. ask_secret() { local key="$1" prompt="$2" current input current=$(_existing "$key" || true) if [[ -n "$current" ]]; then printf ' %s%s%s %s[Enter keeps current]%s ' "$BOLD" "$prompt" "$RESET" "$DIM" "$RESET" else printf ' %s%s%s ' "$BOLD" "$prompt" "$RESET" fi read -rs input || true printf '\n' [[ -z "$input" && -n "$current" ]] && input="$current" printf -v "$key" '%s' "$input" } # write_env KEY VALUE upserts KEY=VALUE into ENV_FILE (creates it; replaces # any existing line). Idempotent. write_env() { local key="$1" value="$2" tmp touch "$ENV_FILE" tmp=$(mktemp) grep -vE "^${key}=" "$ENV_FILE" > "$tmp" || true printf '%s=%s\n' "$key" "$value" >> "$tmp" mv "$tmp" "$ENV_FILE" WRITTEN_ENV+=("$key") printf ' %s✓ wrote%s %s → %s\n' "$GREEN" "$RESET" "$key" "$ENV_FILE" } # set_secret NAME VALUE sets a GitHub Actions repo secret via gh. Falls back # to a warning (and records it) if gh is unavailable or unauthenticated. set_secret() { local name="$1" value="$2" if command -v gh >/dev/null 2>&1 && gh auth status >/dev/null 2>&1; then if printf '%s' "$value" | gh secret set "$name" >/dev/null 2>&1; then WRITTEN_SECRET+=("$name") printf ' %s✓ set%s GitHub secret %s\n' "$GREEN" "$RESET" "$name" return fi fi SKIPPED+=("GitHub secret $name (set it manually: gh secret set $name)") warn "skipped GitHub secret $name: gh not ready; set it later" } # set_var NAME VALUE sets a GitHub Actions repo variable (non-secret). set_var() { local name="$1" value="$2" if command -v gh >/dev/null 2>&1 && gh auth status >/dev/null 2>&1; then if gh variable set "$name" --body "$value" >/dev/null 2>&1; then printf ' %s✓ set%s GitHub variable %s\n' "$GREEN" "$RESET" "$name" return fi fi SKIPPED+=("GitHub variable $name") warn "skipped GitHub variable $name, gh not ready; set it later" } # finish clears, then shows a closing summary of everything configured. finish() { _clear printf '\n%s%s ✓ Setup complete%s\n' "$BOLD" "$GREEN" "$RESET" (( ${#WRITTEN_ENV[@]} )) && note "wrote ${#WRITTEN_ENV[@]} value(s) to $ENV_FILE: ${WRITTEN_ENV[*]}" (( ${#WRITTEN_SECRET[@]} )) && note "set ${#WRITTEN_SECRET[@]} GitHub secret(s): ${WRITTEN_SECRET[*]}" if (( ${#SKIPPED[@]} )); then printf '\n'; warn "still to do by hand:" for s in "${SKIPPED[@]}"; do note " - $s"; done fi printf '\n' } # ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # STAGES: author this section. One stage() per step the human takes. # Replace the example below. Set TOTAL_STAGES to match the stages you write. # ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── TOTAL_STAGES=1 banner "Stripe setup" # ── Example stage: replace with your real steps ─────────────────────────── stage "Stripe: API keys" say "We'll grab your Stripe test keys and store them for local dev + CI." open_url "https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/apikeys" step "On the API keys page, copy the Publishable key (starts pk_test_)." ask STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY "Paste the publishable key:" step "Click 'Reveal test key' on the Secret key row, then copy it." ask_secret STRIPE_SECRET_KEY "Paste the secret key:" write_env STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY "$STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY" write_env STRIPE_SECRET_KEY "$STRIPE_SECRET_KEY" set_secret STRIPE_SECRET_KEY "$STRIPE_SECRET_KEY" # CI needs this one # ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── finish
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