feat(kernel): the operator greets first and helps pick a first team; allow two provider checks - #858
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On a first meeting (no rig but the kernel, no greeting yet in its conversation) the kernel operator writes a short welcome, asks what the person wants to do, and helps them choose first-project, first-project-claude or first-project-mixed: the folder to work in, the providers they are signed in to, a drawing from the real spec, plan then an explicit yes, and honest readiness. The advisor no longer introduces itself at startup.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughStartup instructions now define when the operator greets a person and when the advisor introduces itself. Operator guidance adds a first-team setup procedure. The kernel permission allow-list and its test include Claude and Codex authentication-status commands. ChangesFirst-Team Onboarding
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Person->>operator.agent: Provide project folder and team choices
operator.agent->>rig_CLI: Check the selected team's required provider
operator.agent->>rig_CLI: Preview the team spec
operator.agent->>Person: Explain the spec and launch plan
Person->>operator.agent: Approve the launch
operator.agent->>rig_CLI: Start the approved team
operator.agent->>rig_CLI: Check each seat's startup status
operator.agent->>Person: Provide the team address and handoff options
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The onboarding flow may skip a required identity check or discover a missing provider login only after launch begins. Both issues are limited and recoverable, but clarifying the instructions would reduce avoidable setup friction. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The added status-check permissions are a limited expansion, and existing project permission boundaries remain. Launch approval and recovery still depend partly on conversational guidance, leaving some assurance incomplete. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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…s graph The operator greets when its conversation has no greeting and nobody has written to it, runs only rig ps before greeting, and offers help with existing teams when there are some. Provider checks wait until the person has chosen a team, check only that team's provider, and say that a Claude-run operator may ask for approval. The drawing reads graph.nodes and graph.edges from rig specs preview --json and is shown before anything starts. Readiness names the startupStatus values, answers in the operator's pane count as the person's decisions, and the shared view is saved:kernel.
… launch Kernel Claude seats now also get Bash(claude auth status:*) and Bash(codex login status:*), so the operator can check the chosen team's provider without an approval prompt in front of the person. acceptEdits, the kernel-only scope and the person's own ask and deny rules are unchanged; the operator still says in one line that those rules can prompt.
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- Around line 57-63: Update the provider authentication checks in the agent
guidance to inspect every distinct provider used by the selected starter,
including providers assigned to different roles such as dev.owner and dev.check.
Request login only for providers whose authentication is missing, then recheck
those providers; remove the instruction to skip the other provider.
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- Around line 14-16: Update the pre-greeting command sequence so `rig whoami
--json` is the required identity check and `rig ps --json` is the only
additional command before greeting; keep provider checks deferred until after
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| a different provider from its owner. Then check only that team's provider | ||
| (`claude auth status` or `codex login status`). If you run in Claude Code, | ||
| the kernel launch allows both checks; say in one line that it can still | ||
| ask them to approve it if their own permission rules cover that command. | ||
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| missing, ask once for `claude auth login` or `codex login` and recheck | ||
| afterwards; don't ask for the other provider. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Check every provider used by the selected starter.
first-project-mixed assigns Claude to dev.owner and Codex to dev.check (packages/daemon/specs/rigs/launch/first-project-mixed/rig.yaml, Lines 11-31). These instructions check only one provider and say not to ask for the other. Check each distinct provider used by the selected spec, and request login only for providers that need it. Otherwise, a missing login can go undetected until launch.
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[locale-violation] ~63-~63: In American English, ‘afterward’ is the preferred variant. ‘Afterwards’ is more commonly used in British English and other dialects.
Context: ... loginorcodex login` and recheck afterwards; don't ask for the other provider. 3. *...
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Update the provider authentication checks in the agent guidance to inspect every
distinct provider used by the selected starter, including providers assigned to
different roles such as dev.owner and dev.check. Request login only for
providers whose authentication is missing, then recheck those providers; remove
the instruction to skip the other provider.
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| greeting, run only `rig ps --json`; run no provider check | ||
| (`claude auth status`, `codex login status`) until they answer, because a | ||
| person's own ask or deny rules can still make that check ask for approval. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Clarify the pre-greeting command sequence.
Line 8 requires rig whoami --json, but this says rig ps --json is the only command before greeting. State that rig whoami --json is the required identity check and rig ps --json is the only additional pre-greeting command. Keep provider checks deferred.
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-Before greeting, run only `rig ps --json`; run no provider check
+After the required `rig whoami --json` identity check, run only
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Update the pre-greeting command sequence so `rig whoami --json` is the required
identity check and `rig ps --json` is the only additional command before
greeting; keep provider checks deferred until after the greeting.
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The compact human table of rig ps --nodes shows neither field; the JSON projection carries both.
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Approved at d1e4a0d after two independent review rounds. The kernel operator now greets a person on first contact (no greeting yet in its conversation and nobody has written to it), before any provider check, then helps them pick a first-project starter: it infers their tool from the kernel's own runtimes or asks, checks only the chosen team's provider, draws the team from rig specs preview --json (members, runtimes, edges), runs rig up --plan in the person's own folder (not the kernel's workspace root), and launches only on their yes, reading readiness from rig ps --nodes --json startupStatus. The advisor no longer introduces itself. The kernel's Claude launch allowlist gains exactly two read-only entries, Bash(claude auth status:) and Bash(codex login status:), so those checks don't stop the first conversation at an approval prompt; it stays kernel-only and acceptEdits, a person's own ask or deny rules still apply, and the existing grant test now asserts both entries for every Claude kernel seat in all three variants.
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What a user gets
Right after install, the person opens the OpenRig view and finds the kernel operator has already said hello. It asks what they want to do and helps them pick a small first team. No starter team has to exist first.
What changes (guidance in three files, plus two kernel allowances)
operator/agent/startup/context.md: the first action now decides whether this is a first meeting.rig ps --json, and no provider check, so the first thing the person sees is never an approval prompt.kernel, the welcome offers a first team. With other rigs, it names them and offers help with them.operator/agent/guidance/role.md: a new section, "Helping someone start their first team":rig specs preview <starter> --kind rig --json(graph.nodesandgraph.edges);rig up <starter> --cwd <folder> --plan, then launch only on a yes;startupStatus(pending,ready,attention_required,failed), includingStatus: partial/Startup attention;advisor/lead/startup/context.md: the advisor no longer introduces itself at startup. It waits, and answers briefly when the person writes to it. The operator is the one agent that greets.packages/daemon/src/adapters/kernel-authority.ts:KERNEL_CLAUDE_ALLOWgainsBash(claude auth status:*)andBash(codex login status:*), two read-only status checks. That lets a Claude-run operator check the chosen provider without an approval prompt.acceptEdits, and non-kernel seats get no--settingsat all.allowentries and never resets the person'saskordeny, so their own rules still apply and can still prompt.kernel-authority.test.ts's sharedassertGrantnow asserts both entries for every Claude kernel seat, across the three kernel variants and fresh, resume and fork.The operator text relies on the default kernel view showing the operator in every kernel variant, which #854 (merged) does. The shared view is named as
saved:kernel. The authentication section now probes a provider when a team needs it, not at startup.Checks
role.md, which is unchanged.git diff --checkis clean.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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