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  name: guided-tour
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  description: >-
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- Guided tour of Kurrent Capacitor for someone who has it installed but does not
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- yet know what it does for them — "what does capacitor do for me", "what is
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- capacitor", "is this thing doing anything", "what can kcap do", "just installed
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+ Guided tour of Kurrent Capacitor (Kcap) for someone who has it installed but does
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+ not yet know what it does for them — "what does capacitor do for me", "what is
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+ kcap", "is this thing doing anything", "what can kcap do", "just installed
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  capacitor, now what", "give me a tour", "Start kcap guided tour" (the prompt
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  `kcap setup` tells them to type) — or when they invoke this skill directly by
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- its listed name. Shows the team's recorded sessions, spend and errors, then offers
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- per-use-case tutorial tours (evals, session recall, PR review, analytics). Also
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- handles the missing pieces: offers to install kcap if it is not set up, and to
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- import history if the user has no sessions. Not for general session recall on an
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- established user — that is the recap skill.
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+ its listed name. Seven short cards, one per reply: welcome, capture,
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+ investigate, collaborate, review, use, reuse — each a handful of questions to
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+ ask the coding agent. Also handles the missing pieces: offers to install kcap if
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+ it is not set up, and to import history if the user has no sessions. Not for
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+ general session recall on an established user — that is the recap skill.
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  ---
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- # Capacitor guided tour
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-
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- Turn 1 is a **fixed menu, emitted verbatim** from the two template parts below, with blanks
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- filled from queries. Do not rewrite it, reorder it, or add to it. Everything after turn 1
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- follows whichever prompt the user picks.
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-
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- **Voice — upbeat, professional, confident, and written for developers.** They know nothing
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- about this product; they are not beginners at anything else. So: technical register, terse, zero
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- fluff. No analogies, no concept walkthroughs, no explaining how agents or tokens work. When a
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- product term first appears — eval, recap, curation, facts — define it in one short clause inline
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- (*"an eval — an LLM-judge score of a session"*) and move on. Short sentences, momentum, no
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- hedging, no apologies. Confident never means overclaiming: every number still comes from a
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- query, and honesty rules below always win over tone.
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-
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- ## Turn 1 — two tool beats, everything parallel
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- Budget: the welcome on screen immediately, the complete menu in ~12 seconds.
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- **Beat 1 — welcome plus every independent call, in ONE message.** Emit TEMPLATE PART A
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- verbatim, and in that same message issue, in parallel:
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- - `kcap whoami --no-update-check` → `<user>`
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- - **Q-MENU** below (it does not need `<user>`)
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- Never emit the text alone and then start calling tools in a later message: that adds a whole
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- round-trip for nothing. **If the host defers MCP tools** (schemas load on demand via a
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- ToolSearch-style call), load everything in ONE call in this same message — `query_analytics` at
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- minimum — never one lookup per tool: each separate lookup is a full round-trip that serialises
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- the beat.
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- **Beat 2 — the menu body, in ONE message.** Emit TEMPLATE PART B1 with its blanks filled. If
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- whoami failed, go to WHEN SOMETHING IS MISSING.
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-
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- **Beat 3 — emit TEMPLATE PART B2** (the TODO list), `{{TODOS}}` filled per THE BLANKS. Do not
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- re-emit anything above it.
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-
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- **Degrade, never stall.** No retry loops, no alternative-query experiments, no schema fetch. If
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- a query fails or nothing has returned by ~15s, print `*(couldn't pull your numbers just now —
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- ask me to try again)*` where the table would go and finish the menu. The menu is never blocked.
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-
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- ## The queries
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- **Use the SQL verbatim**, via the `query_analytics` tool on the `kcap-analytics` MCP server. The views are
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- pre-named so you never call `get_analytics_schema` — that fetch is ~77KB and spills to disk.
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- Q-MENU is TEAM-WIDE on purpose — no user filter in the SQL, so it can run in beat 1 before
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- whoami returns. The personal-repo exclusion happens at RENDER time instead: when building
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- `{{TABLE}}`, drop any row whose repo owner equals `<user>` (whoami has returned by then), and
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- print at most 3 of what remains — the LIMIT 5 exists so the table survives that filtering. The
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- table is about the team's shared work, not personal scratch repos.
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-
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- **Q-MENU** (`scope: "global"`) — the whole menu in ONE round trip: the table's rows plus
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- `pr_ref` (the same value on every row) for `{{PR}}`. One call instead of two because every
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- `query_analytics` call pays full transport; never split it back apart. Grain notes baked into
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- its shape: `v_an_cost` is one row per session PER MODEL, so it is collapsed to one row per
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- session before anything joins it; `tool calls` / `tool errors` both come from
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- `v_an_session_steps` — the SAME view — so the error rate a reader computes from the two columns
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- is internally consistent; and `pr_ref` is the full `owner/repo#N` form the `kcap-review` tools
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- accept as an explicit `pr` argument — a bare number typed in a later session on some other
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- branch can fail to resolve, or resolve against the wrong repo. Deliberately NOT selected: any
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- duration column. `v_an_sessions.duration_min` is wall clock (sessions left open dominate it),
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- and no honest hours figure exists in the views.
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- ```sql
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- WITH per_session AS (
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- SELECT c.repo_hash, c.session_id, SUM(c.cost_usd) AS cost_usd
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- FROM v_an_cost c
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- WHERE c.cost_usd IS NOT NULL
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- GROUP BY c.repo_hash, c.session_id
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- ),
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- steps AS (
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- SELECT st.session_id,
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- COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE st.tool_name IS NOT NULL) AS tool_calls,
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- COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE st.is_error) AS tool_errors
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- FROM v_an_session_steps st
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- GROUP BY st.session_id
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- ),
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- latest_pr AS (
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- SELECT rp.owner || '/' || rp.repo_name || '#' || pr.pr_number AS pr_ref
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- FROM v_an_prs pr
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- JOIN v_an_repositories rp ON rp.repo_hash = pr.repo_hash
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- ORDER BY pr.last_session_at DESC NULLS LAST
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- LIMIT 1
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- )
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- SELECT r.owner || '/' || r.repo_name AS repo,
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- COUNT(*) AS sessions,
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- COALESCE(SUM(s.tool_calls), 0) AS tool_calls,
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- ROUND(SUM(p.cost_usd)::numeric, 2) AS cost_usd,
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- COALESCE(SUM(s.tool_errors), 0) AS tool_errors,
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- MAX(lp.pr_ref) AS pr_ref
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- FROM per_session p
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- JOIN v_an_repositories r ON r.repo_hash = p.repo_hash
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- LEFT JOIN steps s ON s.session_id = p.session_id
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- LEFT JOIN latest_pr lp ON TRUE
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- GROUP BY r.owner || '/' || r.repo_name
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- ORDER BY SUM(p.cost_usd) DESC
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- LIMIT 5
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- ```
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- **Q-DONE — DISABLED, do not run it in turn 1.** It was a `search_sessions` marker lookup
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- (`repo: "all"`, `author: "<user>"`, the four `PromptedStart…Tour` tokens), but even at
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- `limit: 20` the snippet payload overflows (~100KB) and sinks the turn-1 budget. Re-enable only
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- when the server offers a snippet-size cap or marker-only search. Until then TODO progress is not
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- looked up: markers are still EMITTED at tour completion (see MARKERS) so history accrues for
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- when this returns.
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- ## The blanks
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- - `{{TABLE}}` — Q-MENU's rows (without the `pr_ref` column); drop any whose repo owner equals
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- `<user>`; print at most 3 of
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- what remains, exactly as returned: never round, pad,
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- or invent a row. If Q-MENU returned nothing, replace the table with the import offer (see
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- WHEN SOMETHING IS MISSING).
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- - `{{PR}}` — Q-MENU's `pr_ref` (`owner/repo#N`, identical on every row), in both places. If it
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- is NULL, keep `owner/repo#N` as a literal placeholder.
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- - `{{TODOS}}` — render each line as `- [x] ~~text~~` when done, else `- [ ] text`. With Q-DONE
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- disabled, only the install and import lines are knowable in turn 1; render the tour lines
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- unticked. Lines completed EARLIER IN THIS CONVERSATION still get ticked when re-printing
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- after a tour.
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- | line | done when |
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- | Install `kcap` | `whoami` succeeded in beat 1 |
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- | Import a session | Q-MENU returned at least one row with `sessions` ≥ 1 — judge on the RAW rows, before the render filter drops personal repos |
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- | Prompt ❯ `Start the session recall tour` | completed this conversation |
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- | Prompt ❯ `Start the evals tour` | completed this conversation |
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- | Prompt ❯ `Start the PR review tour` | completed this conversation |
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- | Prompt ❯ `Start the analytics tour` | completed this conversation |
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- ## TEMPLATE PART A — the welcome (beat 1, one variant, verbatim)
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- Pick ONE variant at random and emit it exactly. Genuinely vary across sessions — never default
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- to the first. The variant is the only thing about turn 1 that changes between runs.
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- ```
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- 1 # 👋 Welcome to the Capacitor Guided Tour
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- Your team's coding sessions are already recorded and searchable. Hang tight for a few
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- seconds while I pull your numbers — then I'll show you around.
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- 2 # 🚀 Capacitor Guided Tour
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- Let's start with what Capacitor already knows about your work. Fetching your sessions,
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- spend, and errors — give it a few seconds...
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- 3 # 👋 Welcome to the Capacitor Guided Tour
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- One minute from now you'll know exactly what your coding agents have been up to. Loading
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- your session record — hold on a moment...
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- 4 # 🚀 Capacitor Guided Tour
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- Nothing to configure, nothing to read first — this tour runs on your own data.
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- Pulling it up now — bear with me a few seconds...
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- 5 # 👋 Welcome to the Capacitor Guided Tour
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- Every session your agents have run is already in the record. Let's see what's in yours —
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- hang on, this takes a moment...
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- 6 # ⚡ Capacitor Guided Tour
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- Loading your session record — sessions, spend, tool errors. Hold tight, it's seconds away.
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- 7 # 👋 Welcome to the Capacitor Guided Tour
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- You've been building a session record without lifting a finger. Fetching yours now — sit
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- tight for a few seconds while I put it to work...
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- 8 # 🧭 The Capacitor Guided Tour
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- I'll be your guide: first your numbers, then the fastest ways to get value from them.
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- Pulling your data — wait just a few seconds...
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- 9 # 👋 Welcome to the Capacitor Guided Tour
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- Your sessions are already in the record and on their way here. Hang tight — this
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- 10 # 🚀 Capacitor Guided Tour
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- Fewer repeated mistakes, answers straight from your own history — that's the
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- tour in one line. Proof loads in a few seconds — hold on...
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- ```
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- ## TEMPLATE PART B1 — the menu (beat 2, verbatim, blanks filled)
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- ```
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- # ⚡ Capacitor — shared memory for your team's coding agents
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- Capacitor captures every coding-agent session your team runs — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor,
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- Copilot — into one searchable record, so the reasoning survives whichever agent you pick up
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- next. And because it spans every repo your team touches, it sees patterns no single session can.
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- **Your team's coding agent sessions at a glance:**
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+ # Kcap guided tour
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+ The tour is **seven cards, one card per reply**. Emit each card verbatim from its template below,
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+ with only the placeholders filled. Do not rewrite, reorder, shorten or add to a card, and print
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+ nothing before or after it: no preamble, no commentary, no summary of what the card says.
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+ ## Navigation
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+ - Turn 1 is card 1. Every later card is shown when the user replies `next` — accept any short
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+ advance (`n`, `next`, `continue`, `ok`) the same way.
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+ - `stop` ends the tour: reply with one line, `Tour ended. Ask {{AGENT}} anything from it whenever you're ready`
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+ - Anything else the user types mid-tour is a real question: answer it (see ANSWERING THE
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+ QUESTIONS), then end that reply with `Type next and hit Enter to resume the tour`
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+ - Card 7 is the last card. A `next` after it gets the `stop` line.
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+ ## Copy rules
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+ - The final sentence of every paragraph and line carries no period. Sentence-internal periods,
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+ question marks and the exclamation mark stay as written.
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+ - Print each card inside the `---` rules shown, as markdown, never inside a code fence.
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+ - Numbers come only from query results. Never invent, pad or estimate a row.
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+ ## Placeholders
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+ | `{{AGENT}}` | the product name of the harness running this tour: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Pi or Antigravity | — |
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+ | `{{OTHER_AGENT}}` on card 4 | Codex | Claude Code when `{{AGENT}}` is Codex |
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+ | `{{OTHER_AGENT}}` on card 5 | from `list_reviewer_vendors`, excluding the harness running the tour (its `driver_vendor`, or `{{AGENT}}`'s token when that is absent): `codex` if listed, else `claude`, else the first one listed, by product name (`codex` → Codex, `claude` → Claude Code) | as card 4 |
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+ | `{{T1}}`, `{{T2}}`, `{{T3}}` | the first names of up to three distinct teammates, most recent first (TEAMMATES below) | `my teammate` for each one missing; capitalise it when it opens the question |
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+ Replace only the placeholder. Every other word of a question stays as written, even where a
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+ ```sql
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+ SELECT c.session_id, SUM(c.cost_usd) AS cost_usd
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+ ## CAPTURE — the two variants of `{{CAPTURE}}`
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+ ```
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+ ## The cards
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+ ### Card 1
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+ ## 👋 Welcome · 1 of 7
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+ ── 1 of 7 · Type `next` and hit Enter to continue · `stop` to exit ──
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+ ### Card 2
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- ```
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- ```
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- ## ✅ Tour TODOs
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+ ### Card 3
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+ **❯** We worked on this feature already, find the sessions and summarize the work we did
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+ ### Card 4
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+ ## 🤝 Collaborate · 4 of 7
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+ **❯** {{T1}} is out sick but we need to ship the feature they're working on, find their session and continue it
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+ ── 4 of 7 · Type `next` and hit Enter to continue · `stop` to exit ──
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+ ### Card 5
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- ```
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+ ── 5 of 7 · Type `next` and hit Enter to continue · `stop` to exit ──
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+ ---
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+ ### Card 6
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+ ---
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+ ## ⚙️ Use · 6 of 7
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+ **❯** Resume my session on the feature and continue
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+ **❯** We already solved this problem in another feature, use that same pattern here
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+ **❯** What did I leave unfinished last week that's blocking this task?
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+ ── 6 of 7 · Type `next` and hit Enter to continue · `stop` to exit ──
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+ ---
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+ ### Card 7
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+ ## ♻️ Reuse · 7 of 7
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+ Every session teaches your agents something. Ask {{AGENT}}:
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+ **❯** Evaluate my last session and give me the results
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+ **❯** Promote the lessons our evals found into our agent instructions
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+ **❯** Remember this fix so every agent I use works the same way
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+ **❯** What lessons keep coming up across my team's evals?
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+ Pick any question from the tour and ask {{AGENT}} now
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+ Docs: https://www.kurrent.io/docs/capacitor/
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+ ── 7 of 7 · End of tour ──
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  ## WHEN SOMETHING IS MISSING
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- **kcap is not installed or not signed in** (whoami failed in beat 1): the tour becomes setup
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- help. Say what you found, ask if they'd like to set kcap up now, and on yes fetch
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- https://capacitor.kurrent.io/docs/getting-started/quickstart and walk them through it
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- step by step — one instruction at a time, verify with `kcap whoami` at the end, then restart
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- the tour properly. If they decline, give them the link and the one-line way to come back.
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- **The user has no sessions of their own** (a tour's own author lookup — see the evals
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- https://capacitor.kurrent.io/docs/getting-started/import-your-history/ , lay out the options it
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- ## MARKERS — how TODO progress persists
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- When you COMPLETE a per-use-case tour, end that response with one line: the check-mark `✓`, a
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- | session recall | `Prompted` + `StartSessionRecallTour` |
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- | evals | `Prompted` + `StartEvalsTour` |
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- | PR review | `Prompted` + `StartPRReviewTour` |
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- | analytics | `Prompted` + `StartAnalyticsTour` |
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- They persist in the session record so TODO progress can be looked up across sessions once
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- ## Executing the menu
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- Same voice throughout: upbeat, professional, confident.
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- **Format every step for scanability, not as prose.** A bold one-line header carrying the step
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- number and what it teaches (`**Step 2 of 3 — your error hotspots**`); query results as markdown
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- tables, never inline sentences of numbers; anything the user types or you run in fenced code;
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- the step's single takeaway in bold. One idea per paragraph, two or three short paragraphs at
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- most, then the `Prompt ❯` lines set off on their own lines. A wall of text loses the step.
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- Every step — and turn 1 — closes with `Learn more: https://capacitor.kurrent.io/docs` after the
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- **`Start the <use case> tour`** — the heart of the skill: a hands-on tutorial that gets
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- Define every term BEFORE it is used, in one inline clause, with an example if it helps
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- (*"an eval — an LLM-judge score of a session, like CI for agent quality"*). Then wait for
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- `Prompt ❯ ...` — and NEVER run for them: typing it is the tutorial. Plumbing that teaches
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- 3. **Their data, always.** Every step runs on real sessions from their own record — that is
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- 4. **Respect the clock.** Prefer operations that finish in 30–90 seconds. If one will run
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- longer (`kcap eval`: LLM judges, real spend, 1–3 minutes), say so BEFORE they fire it, run
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- 5. **Every step ends with next-step prompts** — one or more `Prompt ❯ ...` lines: the advance,
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- **evals**: read WHEN EVALS ARE NOT DEMONSTRABLE YET below BEFORE planning the steps — on a
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- young record the full pipeline cannot be shown, and the tour changes shape. When it can:
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- | Install & setup | https://capacitor.kurrent.io/docs/getting-started/quickstart |
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- | Import history | https://capacitor.kurrent.io/docs/getting-started/import-your-history/ |
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- | Session recall | https://capacitor.kurrent.io/docs/using/session-recall/ |
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- | PR review | https://capacitor.kurrent.io/docs/using/pr-review/ |
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- | Analytics | https://capacitor.kurrent.io/docs/using/analytics/ |
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- | Evals | https://capacitor.kurrent.io/docs/using/evaluations/ |
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- - **Attribute only from the speaker label.** Unlabelled transcript text is the *agent's* — say
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+ ## ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS
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+ | 1 | loose ends / plan coverage; finished, checked, remaining | `list_loose_ends`, the session's declared plan (`get_declared_plans`), `get_session_summary`. A server without next-work answers `list_loose_ends` with "not enabled": answer from the summary's Unfinished section instead |
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+ | 1, 5 | decisions behind a PR; review a teammate's PR | `kcap-review`: `get_pr_summary`, then `search_context` / `get_transcript` for the reasoning |
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+ | 3, 4, 6 | past sessions, team activity, who solved what, unfinished work | `search_sessions`, `list_repo_sessions`, `get_session_summary` |
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+ | 4, 6 | continue another session (a teammate's, or one from another agent) | `continue_session`; if it refuses because that session may still be running, ask before retrying with `force: true` |
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+ | 5 | spec and code review flows | the agent-flows skill: `get_flow_definition` first, the reviewer is `{{OTHER_AGENT}}`. A flow needs a connected kcap daemon with that reviewer installed — if the start is refused, say exactly which part is missing |
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+ | 6 | what to do next; what is blocking | `get_next_work`, citing its because-clauses. If it reports next-work is not enabled, answer from the latest session summaries' Unfinished sections and say the ranked list is off on this server |
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+ | 7 | evaluate a session | `kcap eval`: LLM judges, 1–3 minutes and real spend. Say both and get a go before starting; run it in the background where the harness allows |
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+ | 7 | promote lessons | `kcap curate apply --dry-run` first and show what would be written; write only on an explicit yes. On a young record there is nothing to promote yet — say so plainly |
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+ | 7 | remember a fix; recurring lessons | `kcap-memory` `save_memory`; the eval facts (`search_facts`, `list_facts`) |
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+ - Attribute only from the speaker label. Unlabelled transcript text is the agent's.
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+ - `get_analytics_schema` — the one query this tour runs is above.