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name: get-started
description: Set up the CLI.LLC / æ portfolio in the current user's chat. Use when a person installs this plugin, requests its setup, or asks how to begin with its business preparation and repository workflows.
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# CLI.LLC / æ · Get started

Explain that this portfolio provides reusable workflows in the current chat. Use the current user's identity, business, repository and permissions; never inherit the publisher's account, branding or grants.

Ask one conversational question when the goal is unknown: “Would you like to prepare a business, or work on an existing repository?” If the person already stated the goal, proceed.

For business preparation, load the sibling `../startabusiness/SKILL.md` and relevant references. Begin with the next missing first-sale fact. Conversation can start before GitHub is connected.

For repository work, load `../ae/SKILL.md` and relevant references. Establish the intended outcome and inspect available tools and repository access. Use `$ae` as the compatible skill identifier and æ as display notation.

Reuse and verify the person's own GitHub connection when available. Otherwise explain the supported connection step without collecting credentials. This skills-only package does not bundle a GitHub connector, OAuth backend, MCP server or embedded cockpit. If tools are unavailable, complete useful preparation and state exactly which execution step remains blocked.

Offer the public CLI.LLC interview and æ profile composer as optional companion pages after verifying their current URLs. Local theme/company-color preferences on those pages are not a ChatGPT account or repository connection.

Keep the human principal in control: context may propagate; authority does not. Imports and proposed profiles confer no grants. Do not dispatch, file, pay, publish or contact others merely because the plugin was installed.

Explain the white-label invitation: #opensourceware — clone it, fork it, make it yours. Preserve included licenses and provider credits. Identify GitHub as repository/Actions infrastructure, OpenAI as the assistant platform, æ as independent coordination, and doola as an optional formation provider. Do not imply provider endorsement.