feat(core): add setup to install the Microlink skill

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Summary

• Add microlink setup, which detects installed coding agents and installs the Microlink skill for them.
• Claude Code, OpenCode, and GitHub Copilot get a link to ~/.agents/skills/microlink. Codex and Cursor read that shared skill directly.
• A successful run ends with Installed! use /microlink to start using it. An existing skill the CLI did not write is left untouched.

Test plan

• npx microlink.io setup --help shows the setup command
• npx microlink.io setup installs ~/.agents/skills/microlink/SKILL.md and links it for detected agents
• Re-running setup updates a skill the CLI owns
• A hand-written skill at that path is not overwritten
• pnpm exec ava test/cli.mjs in packages/core

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added a setup command that detects supported coding agents and installs the Microlink skill for them.
  • Setup reports the installation location when no agents are detected and avoids overwriting unrecognized existing skills.
  • Added the command to the CLI help and documentation.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The CLI adds microlink setup to fetch and install the Microlink skill, detect coding agents, and connect their skill directories. The command reports setup errors and rejects positional arguments.

Changes

Microlink skill setup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Skill installation and agent connection packages/core/bin/setup.js, packages/core/test/cli.mjs	The setup flow fetches and validates the skill, installs it in ~/.agents/skills/microlink, and connects detected agents with separate skill directories. It checks directory ownership and tests installation, agent detection, and existing unmanaged skills.
CLI command and documentation packages/core/bin/help.js, packages/core/bin/run.js, README.md, packages/core/test/cli.mjs	Help, global usage, and the README document setup. The CLI handles help, rejects arguments, and reports success or errors. Tests cover command help and argument rejection.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as microlink setup CLI
  participant Setup as setup
  participant Agents as Agent configuration and PATH
  participant Fetch as fetch
  participant Canonical as Canonical skill directory
  participant SkillDirs as Agent skill directories
  CLI->>Setup: Call setup with host options
  Setup->>Agents: Detect configured agents
  Setup->>Fetch: Request SKILL_URL
  Fetch-->>Setup: Return skill content
  Setup->>Canonical: Write skill and ownership marker
  Setup->>SkillDirs: Create symlink or managed copy

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e97cb

For users with symlinked agent configuration directories, setup can report that the skill is connected even though the agent cannot load it. Correct the link target before merging unless this limitation is explicitly accepted.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e97cb

Setup makes remotely supplied instructions available to coding agents on the developer’s machine. Its existing-file protections reduce accidental overwrites, but the downloaded instructions are not tied to a verified version, and interrupted installation can leave incomplete files visible.

Retained concerns

• High · security · inferred: A mutable remote skill becomes locally trusted agent instruction content after only a front-matter check. A changed or compromised upstream file could reach several agent integrations on a subsequent setup run; downstream agent controls are unknown.
• Medium · reliability · inferred: Installation does not publish a complete skill atomically: interruption can leave a managed but missing or truncated skill, while a failed later agent connection leaves earlier installations in place. That weakens the integrity and consistency of agent-visible instructions during failure or concurrent setup.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — One fetched skill can affect the shared home-directory installation and the detected Claude Code, OpenCode, and GitHub Copilot skill locations. The code does not establish what authority those agents grant to skill instructions.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — An actor able to change the upstream skill file could supply instruction text that passes the prefix check and is installed on a user’s next setup run. Whether an agent would act on harmful text, and with what privileges, is not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The fixed URL, timeout, response check, front-matter check, and destination ownership checks constrain installation. None of the inspected fetch path verifies a fixed revision or digest of the downloaded instructions.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Direct writes and marker-first creation permit incomplete agent-visible state after interruption. A later successful sequential run can repair managed content, but a failed run does not restore the previous version or remove earlier connections.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Bind installed content to a reviewed immutable revision or verified digest rather than accepting any body with the expected prefix from a mutable branch.
• proposed — Stage and atomically publish complete skill files, with an explicit recovery policy for failed agent connections, so consumers do not observe partly updated instructions.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding a core setup command that installs the Microlink skill.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 4…
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• Patch coverage: 53 uncovered changes across 1 file (242 of 295 lines covered, 82.03%).

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