Istari Setup — Development skill for Claude Code
Interactive setup verification for istari-plan and istari-work prerequisites.
How to install Istari Setup
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/contrast-security-oss-istari-istari-setup/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/contrast-security-oss-istari-istari-setup && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Contrast-Security-OSS/istari/HEAD/commands/istari-setup.md -o ~/.claude/skills/contrast-security-oss-istari-istari-setup/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Istari Setup does
description: Interactive setup verification for istari-plan and istari-work prerequisites disable-model-invocation: true user-invocable: true
Setup Command
When the user types the `/istari-setup` command, verify all required tools and plugins are installed and properly configured.
Migrating from bd (Original Beads)
**If you have an existing beads (bd) installation:**
The istari system uses `beads_rust` (command: `br`), which is the Rust rewrite of the original Python `beads` (c
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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