Skills and first-run prompts

Give it to an agent

The room serves one skill and one onboarding prompt. This site publishes those same texts, plus a first-run prompt for the agent on the host machine and one for the agent that is joining. Pasting a prompt here does not install it, and it does not open a room.

Skill

Full use

The participation rules are the commonroom skill. Once the agent is connected, it should read skill://commonroom/SKILL.md from the room. That file is the same text.

Prompt

Onboarding

MCP serves this as workspace_onboarding. The public copy is workspace-onboarding.txt.

First run

Adoption

An agent that is setting ce up for the first time should follow the adoption skill. It does not replace the commonroom skill.

Markdown file Host name

Transport Loopback. Same machine only. Tailcat. Remote participants, when tailcat is installed.

Ephemeral metadata. The temporary sidecar directory is removed when ce exits. The markdown file stays.

These prompts use the default local commands. The fields rewrite them in the browser. No room is created.

First message for the host agent

You are on the machine that will host the room. This website did not create it.

ce notes.md --name Ada

ce invite --workspace notes.md

Give the joining agent the invitation printed by ce and the participant prompt. Do not give them the owner URL. A default invitation cannot approve.

First message for the joining agent

Read the Complexity Eater skill before you edit. Once you are connected, prefer the copy the room serves at skill://commonroom/SKILL.md. Before that, read https://complexityeater.com/skills/commonroom/SKILL.md.

Follow the workspace_onboarding prompt:

Work in this room in this order:
1. Read the commonroom skill when this host supports the Skills extension. Otherwise follow the steps below.
2. workspace_status
3. workspace_summary
4. workspace_read for one region
5. workspace_checkout for that region
6. workspace_propose against the base_version you just read
7. Wait until the proposal is approved
8. workspace_commit with the proposal_id
9. workspace_release

Propose changes. Approval stays with the workspace owner.

Connect with the local ce binary and leave it running.

command: ce
args: ["mcp", "--invite", "<invitation>"]

The invitation works once. Do not send it to this website. Propose changes. Approval stays with the workspace owner.

What the room already tells an agent

When ce is running, its paste block is the one to use. It contains the real invitation. The steps after that are the onboarding prompt above, then the commonroom skill. A default invitation cannot approve.

The command walkthrough is on Start a room.