Conductor Setup

Overview

This skill transforms a standard repository into a Conductor-managed project. It establishes the "Source of Truth" by creating structured documentation for the product vision, technical standards, and development workflows.

Workflow Overview

The setup process follows these sequential phases:

1. •Project Discovery: Determines if the project is New (Greenfield) or Existing (Brownfield).
2. •Product Definition: Collaborative creation of product.md and product-guidelines.md.
3. •Tech Stack: Definition of the project's technical foundation in tech-stack.md.
4. •Configuration: Selection of code style guides and customization of workflow.md.
5. •Track Generation: Creation of the first unit of work (Track) with a spec.md and plan.md.

State Management

Conductor tracks setup progress in conductor/setup_state.json. If the session is interrupted, you MUST check this file to resume from the last_successful_step.

• •2.1_product_guide → Resume at Product Guidelines.
• •2.2_product_guidelines → Resume at Tech Stack.
• •2.3_tech_stack → Resume at Code Styleguides.
• •2.4_code_styleguides → Resume at Workflow.
• •2.5_workflow → Resume at Initial Track Generation.
• •3.3_initial_track_generated → Setup complete.

Implementation Details

Refer to the following protocols for detailed procedural instructions:

1. Initialization and Resolution

• •Resolution Protocol: references/resolution-protocol.md - How to find Conductor artifacts.
• •Project Discovery: references/project-discovery.md - Brownfield vs Greenfield detection logic.

2. Product Documentation

• •Product and Tech Stack: references/product-setup.md - Interactive questioning and document generation.

3. Standards and Workflow

• •Configuration: references/configuration.md - Copying templates and customizing the development cycle.

4. Planning the First Track

• •Track Generation: references/track-generation.md - Creating the first spec.md and plan.md.

Mandatory Constraints

• •TDD Integration: When generating plan.md, you MUST adhere to the TDD principles defined in workflow.md (Red/Green/Refactor tasks).
• •Universal File Resolution: ALWAYS use the protocol in references/resolution-protocol.md to find or verify files.
• •Git Hygiene: Setup concludes with a commit of all conductor/ files.

Assets

Templates used during setup are located in assets/templates/:

• •workflow.md: The base development workflow.
• •code_styleguides/: Language-specific style guides (Python, TypeScript, Go, etc.).