guildmaster

An agent and CLI that manages skills for the AgentCulture mesh.

guildmaster is a sibling to steward (resident-agent alignment), culture (the IRC-based agent mesh), and daria (the awareness agent) in the Organic Development framework. Its mission is skill and skillversion management plus an overview surface for the mesh: per the settled division of labor (issue #1), guildmaster becomes the skills supplier/manager while steward retreats to agent-alignment. It onboards as a consumer first — vendoring the canonical skills like every other sibling — before taking over the upstream ledger, broadcast, and version tracking.

The repo and the Culture agent are named guildmaster; the CLI ships as guild-cli on PyPI and installs the guild binary.

Install

# From PyPI (Trusted Publishing):
uv tool install guild-cli

# From source (dev):
uv sync
uv run guild --version

Commands

All verbs are read-only, offline, and deterministic — safe to call in agent loops. Add --json to any of them for structured output.

Verb	What it does
guild whoami	Report this agent's identity — suffix + backend (from culture.yaml) + version. The smallest identity probe.
guild learn	Survey the repo: the CLI verbs, the vendored skills under .claude/skills/, and a pointer to CLAUDE.md.
guild explain <topic>	Explain one topic in depth — print a vendored skill's SKILL.md, or a verb's summary.

uv run guild whoami
uv run guild learn
uv run guild explain cicd

Supplier verbs — teach & onboard

As the mesh's skills supplier, guildmaster propagates skills to sibling agents through two agent-first write verbs. Both default to dry-run (render the issues and the ledger/verification diffs); --apply files them.

Verb	What it does
guild teach --skill <name> … --to <agent> …	Teach a chosen set of skills to a chosen set of mesh agents.
guild onboard --agent <owner/repo>	Welcome a brand-new sibling with the full canonical kit, an identity-setup section, ledger registration, and a verification record.

Agent-major, not skill-major. A run files one GitHub issue per target agent, bundling a per-skill section for every skill that agent receives — not one issue per skill. New-vs-resync framing is auto-detected per (skill, agent) from the docs/skill-sources.md ledger. Skills must be chosen explicitly (--skill, repeatable, or --all) — there is no implicit default.

These supersede a separate announce-skill-update verb. teach is the single render-and-post engine; onboard is "teach the whole canonical kit" plus ledger registration, the identity section, and a verification record. There is no standalone broadcast verb (cf. issue #10, which asked for one — guildmaster fulfills the broadcast role via these two verbs instead).

Before → after. Today guildmaster has no broadcast verb of its own — steward runs the live broadcaster, and teaching a set of skills or standing up a new sibling is manual (hand-rendered briefs, hand-edited ledger, no verification). After: one command propagates a skill set, or onboards a sibling end-to-end. Going live is gated on the staged steward→guildmaster cutover — see docs/cutover.md.

Inventory verbs — overview & show

guildmaster owns the mesh's inventory surfaces (the read-only "what kit + config does an agent have?" view) per issue #12. Both are read-only — no --apply, no mutation, no drift verdict (judgment stays with steward overview / steward doctor).

Verb	What it does
guild overview [--scope all|self <agent>|mesh]	The supplier view: the canonical skill set + versions/origins, the docs/skill-sources.md ledger, and drift signals (uncovered skills, per-agent kit gaps). Feeds teach / onboard. --scope mesh instead surveys every agent's vendored skills live off the filesystem and flags what's missing/stale per agent.
guild show <path-or-suffix>	One agent's full config in one view — its detected prompt file (CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / GEMINI.md), its parallel culture.yaml, and its .claude/skills index.

uv run guild overview                       # whole ledger + canonical set
uv run guild overview --scope self daria    # one agent's kit + gaps
uv run guild overview --scope mesh          # live survey: every agent's skills + missing/stale
uv run guild show ../culture                 # config by path
uv run guild show daria                      # config by registered suffix
uv run guild show ../culture --json          # structured config object

guild show resolves a registered suffix via the Culture server manifest (culture_server_yaml in .claude/skills.local.yaml); pass an explicit directory path to skip the lookup. Pre-cutover the ledger is still a consumer-side view with no downstream column, so overview's drift signals activate only after the steward→guildmaster cutover — the verb says so plainly.

Develop

uv sync
uv run pytest -n auto -v
uv run black --check guild tests && uv run isort --check-only guild tests
uv run flake8 guild tests && uv run bandit -c pyproject.toml -r guild

Every PR bumps the version (CI's version-check enforces it):

python3 .claude/skills/version-bump/scripts/bump.py patch

See CLAUDE.md for the full project shape, conventions, and the build/test/publish toolchain.