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chore(bootstraps): move BOOTSTRAP-SKILLS.md from essential to optional#65

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chore(bootstraps): move BOOTSTRAP-SKILLS.md from essential to optional#65
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What

The openclaw pack now pre-installs the loki-skills library on EC2 bootstrap (#64), so BOOTSTRAP-SKILLS.md is no longer something the agent needs to run on first boot. Demote it to optional/recovery.

Changes

  • bootstraps/essential/BOOTSTRAP-SKILLS.mdbootstraps/optional/BOOTSTRAP-SKILLS.md (git mv)
  • File preamble reframed as Optional / Recovery with explicit list of when to run it manually:
    • git was missing on first boot
    • clone failed (network, GitHub down)
    • existing skills checkout has a different origin
    • running a non-openclaw pack that hasn't wired its own skills install yet (hermes, nemoclaw, pi, ironclaw, kiro-cli, codex-cli, roundhouse, claude-code)
  • README.md: removed from essential list, added to optional with auto-install note
  • deploy/README.md: removed from essential bootstrap table
  • wiki/Bootstrap-Scripts-Guide.md: moved section Essential → Optional, updated description
  • bootstraps/essential/BOOTSTRAP-MCPORTER.md: updated cross-reference path

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deploy/brain/BOOTSTRAP.md points at an external URL on inceptionstack/loki-agent (different repo). The agent will naturally skip that step now because the openclaw pack pre-writes memory/.bootstrapped-skills.

The openclaw pack now pre-installs the loki-skills library on EC2
bootstrap (PR #64), so the manual BOOTSTRAP-SKILLS.md flow is no longer
essential -- it's a recovery path.

- bootstraps/essential/BOOTSTRAP-SKILLS.md -> bootstraps/optional/BOOTSTRAP-SKILLS.md
- Reframe the file's preamble: 'Optional / Recovery', list the recovery
  triggers (missing git, clone failure, origin mismatch, non-openclaw
  pack), tell users to skip if .bootstrapped-skills already exists.
- README.md: drop from essential list, add to optional list with a note
  that the openclaw pack auto-installs.
- deploy/README.md: drop from essential bootstrap table.
- wiki/Bootstrap-Scripts-Guide.md: move section from Essential to
  Optional, update description to describe it as manual/recovery.
- bootstraps/essential/BOOTSTRAP-MCPORTER.md: update cross-reference path
  to ../optional/BOOTSTRAP-SKILLS.md.

deploy/brain/BOOTSTRAP.md unchanged: it points at an external URL on
inceptionstack/loki-agent (different repo), and the agent now skips
that step naturally because the openclaw pack pre-writes the
.bootstrapped-skills marker.
@royosherove royosherove merged commit a7afc71 into main May 18, 2026
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