Gremlin Bootstrap

SkillProductivity

Bootstrap Gremlin work from the joelclaw side. Use when a task mentions gremlin from outside the repo and you need to locate the repo, load its shipped repo-local skill, or understand which guidance belongs to gremlin versus joelclaw.

Use Gremlin Bootstrap in Claude, ChatGPT or Ahel Desktop

Free. Sign in, add Gremlin Bootstrap and connect your AI. About a minute.

Also: Claude Code · Cursor · Codex

Then ask your AI: use the Gremlin Bootstrap skill

Details

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add Ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Gremlin BootstrapStart free

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by joelhooks/joelclaw in skills/gremlin/SKILL.md and read by Ahel’s review.

This is not the canonical Gremlin repo skill.

Gremlin-specific skills should ship with the Gremlin repo unless they are specifically about how Gremlin plugs into the joelclaw system.

Canonical repo-local skill

Load this first for normal Gremlin work:

  • /Users/joel/Code/badass-courses/gremlin/skills/gremlin/SKILL.md

Then load narrower repo-local skills as needed:

  • /Users/joel/Code/badass-courses/gremlin/skills/gremlin-package-release/SKILL.md
  • /Users/joel/Code/badass-courses/gremlin/skills/gremlin-project-setup/SKILL.md
  • /Users/joel/Code/badass-courses/gremlin/skills/gremlin-tanstack-start/SKILL.md

Use this joelclaw-side skill only when

  • you are outside the Gremlin repo and need to jump into it
  • you need to distinguish repo-local Gremlin guidance from joelclaw-specific automation/integration guidance
  • you are updating joelclaw prompts, routing, or memory surfaces that refer to Gremlin

Rules

  1. Prefer the repo-local Gremlin skill for Gremlin truth.
  2. Do not let joelclaw-owned prompts drift into owning Gremlin repo policy.
  3. If a Gremlin skill is generally useful to Gremlin contributors, move it into the Gremlin repo instead of expanding this file.

Signals

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Item type
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Key
gremlin
Source
github.com/joelhooks/joelclaw