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🎯 Changes

First-time consumers can run intent install to review discovered packages and skills, choose permissions, confirm the exact package.json changes, and receive agent guidance in the same flow.

  • Show package versions, skill descriptions, exclusions, and the scope of package-wide permission before asking for trust.
  • Keep excluded candidates visible in the overview but out of selectable choices. Clack's grouped picker does not enforce disabled; a regression test exercises the real picker.
  • Leave permissions and guidance unchanged when no skills are discovered or all are excluded, so installation can be retried. An intentional empty selection explicitly confirms disabling all skills.
  • Preserve unrelated package configuration and guidance, use an atomic permission write, and report permission and guidance outcomes separately. Noninteractive first runs fail without writes; existing effective permissions retain the guidance-only path.
  • Report available skills under the saved policy and a package-manager-aware next command. Update the consumer quick start and CLI documentation.

Closes #220. Repeat-install permission review remains in #221.

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  • I have followed the steps in the Contributing guide.
  • I have tested this code locally with pnpm run test:pr.

All checks passed: 578 unit tests, 67 integration tests, typechecks, ESLint, Knip, Sherif, docs links, and build. ESLint reports nine existing async-without-await warnings in test mocks, with no errors. Checks used pnpm_config_verify_deps_before_run=false, CI=1, NX_DAEMON=false, NX_NO_CLOUD=true, and a temporary npm cache for the isolated checkout. Also verified the built CLI in a real terminal and reran the 185 focused tests after applying the patch to the branch.

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  • This change affects published code, and I have generated a changeset.
  • This change is docs/CI/dev-only (no release).

Minor release; requires Node.js 20.12.0 or newer for @clack/prompts.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • intent install now offers interactive first-run skill permission setup, including package-wide or individual skill selection.
    • Installation previews permissions and requires confirmation before updating package.json.
    • Supports allow-all, deny-all, exclusions, cancellation, dry runs, and retrying after empty discovery.
    • Reports permission and guidance outcomes separately.
    • Permission updates preserve formatting and are written safely.
  • Documentation

    • Updated installation, configuration, trust model, and quick-start guidance for the new permission workflow.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

intent install now performs interactive first-run skill permission setup, writes intent.skills atomically to the owning package.json, and then installs guidance. The CLI, tests, documentation, runtime requirement, prompt dependency, and release metadata were updated.

Changes

Install permission setup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Atomic package.json permission writer
packages/intent/package.json, packages/intent/src/commands/install/package-json.ts, packages/intent/tests/install-writer.test.ts
Adds JSONC-preserving preparation and atomic replacement for validated intent.skills updates. Tests cover formatting, drift detection, invalid manifests, and replacement failures.
Interactive permission discovery and selection
packages/intent/src/commands/install/permissions.ts, packages/intent/tests/permissions.test.ts
Adds grouped package and skill selection, exclusion handling, allow-all and deny-all flows, cancellation, dry-run behavior, and Clack prompt integration.
Install command integration and result reporting
packages/intent/src/cli.ts, packages/intent/src/commands/install/command.ts, packages/intent/tests/cli.test.ts
Adds runtime injection, TTY enforcement for absent policies, permission setup before guidance, separate failure reporting, and available-skill summaries.
Install behavior documentation and release metadata
docs/cli/intent-install.md, docs/concepts/configuration.md, docs/concepts/trust-model.md, docs/getting-started/quick-start-consumers.md, .changeset/fair-tools-review.md
Documents first-run permission setup, policy selection, atomic writes, cancellation, dry-run behavior, and guidance results. Records a minor package release.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3d835

The runtime flow appears mergeable, but the non-TTY test should explicitly disable TTY behavior to prevent possible CI hangs.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Developer
  participant intent_install
  participant setupInitialPermissions
  participant package_json
  participant Guidance
  Developer->>intent_install: Run install
  intent_install->>setupInitialPermissions: Discover and select permissions
  setupInitialPermissions->>package_json: Confirm and atomically update intent.skills
  package_json-->>intent_install: Permission result
  intent_install->>Guidance: Write and verify guidance
  Guidance-->>Developer: Report permission and guidance results
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding interactive first-run skill permission setup to intent install.
Description check ✅ Passed The description follows the required template, explains the implementation and motivation, completes both checklist items, and documents the release impact and changeset.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy the coding objectives in issue #220. The PR adds candidate discovery, interactive package and skill selection, exact configuration previews, explicit confirmation, deterministic ow…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The reviewed changes remain within issue #220. The implementation, tests, documentation, dependency update, Node.js engine requirement, and changeset directly support the interactive permission setup …
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In `@packages/intent/src/commands/install/permissions.ts`:
- Around line 280-282: Update the cancellation handling around
createPermissionPrompts.confirmWrite so the Permissions: canceled. message is
printed only when the user explicitly declines, not when the result is null
after runtime.cancel has already emitted it. Preserve the existing canceled
status return and keep earlier cancel paths free of duplicate output.

In `@packages/intent/tests/cli.test.ts`:
- Line 433: Update the main(['install']) call in the non-TTY test to pass an
options object with isTTY set to false, ensuring the test always exercises the
non-interactive permission path regardless of the runner terminal.

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  • .changeset/fair-tools-review.md
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  • packages/intent/package.json
  • packages/intent/src/cli.ts
  • packages/intent/src/commands/install/command.ts
  • packages/intent/src/commands/install/package-json.ts
  • packages/intent/src/commands/install/permissions.ts
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Comment on lines +280 to +282
if (confirmation !== true) {
console.log('Permissions: canceled.')
return { status: 'canceled' }

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not print the cancellation message twice.

createPermissionPrompts.confirmWrite returns null only after clackResult already emitted Permissions: canceled. through runtime.cancel. Line 281 then prints the same text again. The earlier cancel paths at lines 242 and 248 print nothing extra, so the output is inconsistent across cancel points.

Print the message only when the user explicitly declines.

🔧 Proposed fix
   const confirmation = await runtime.prompts.confirmWrite(skills.length === 0)
   if (confirmation !== true) {
-    console.log('Permissions: canceled.')
+    if (confirmation === false) console.log('Permissions: canceled.')
     return { status: 'canceled' }
   }
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if (confirmation !== true) {
console.log('Permissions: canceled.')
return { status: 'canceled' }
if (confirmation !== true) {
if (confirmation === false) console.log('Permissions: canceled.')
return { status: 'canceled' }
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In `@packages/intent/src/commands/install/permissions.ts` around lines 280 - 282,
Update the cancellation handling around createPermissionPrompts.confirmWrite so
the Permissions: canceled. message is printed only when the user explicitly
declines, not when the result is null after runtime.cancel has already emitted
it. Preserve the existing canceled status return and keep earlier cancel paths
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const exitCode = await main(['install'])

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make the non-TTY test independent of the runner terminal.

Line 433 falls back to process.stdin.isTTY. If the test runs with an attached terminal, install enters the interactive permission flow and can block instead of returning the expected failure. Pass { isTTY: false } to main.

Proposed fix
-    const exitCode = await main(['install'])
+    const exitCode = await main(['install'], { isTTY: false })
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const exitCode = await main(['install'])
const exitCode = await main(['install'], { isTTY: false })
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In `@packages/intent/tests/cli.test.ts` at line 433, Update the main(['install'])
call in the non-TTY test to pass an options object with isTTY set to false,
ensuring the test always exercises the non-interactive permission path
regardless of the runner terminal.

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