Frictionless Wenlan setup for Codex. Detects a missing local runtime, installs or repairs it, and verifies the plugin to MCP to local runtime round-trip. Run when the user says "set up wenlan", "is wenlan working", or "fix wenlan".
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---
name: setup
description: >
Frictionless Wenlan setup for Codex. Detects a missing local runtime, installs
or repairs it, and verifies the plugin to MCP to local runtime round-trip. Run
when the user says "set up wenlan", "is wenlan working", or "fix wenlan".
allowed-tools: ["Bash", "mcp__wenlan__brief"]
user-invocable: true
---
# /setup
Self-healing setup for Codex. Default backend is local memory: no local model,
no API key, no prompt ceremony. Local model and Anthropic key are optional
upgrades after the basic path works.
## Steps
Run in order. Stop and report at the first failure that needs human attention.
Otherwise, push through automatically.
### 1. Health probe
```bash
for i in 1 2 3; do
curl -fsS -m 3 http://127.0.0.1:7878/api/health && break
sleep 1
done
```
- 200 OK: continue to version drift probe.
- Anything else: continue to bootstrap.
### 2. Version drift probe
Compare daemon version vs plugin manifest version:
```bash
PLUGIN_JSON="${CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT:-plugin-codex}/.codex-plugin/plugin.json"
[ -r "$PLUGIN_JSON" ] || PLUGIN_JSON=".codex-plugin/plugin.json"
if command -v python3 >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -r "$PLUGIN_JSON" ]; then
RESP="$(curl -fsS -m 3 http://127.0.0.1:7878/api/health)"
DAEMON_VER="$(printf '%s' "$RESP" | python3 -c 'import json,sys; print(json.load(sys.stdin).get("version",""))')"
EXPECTED_VER="$(python3 -c 'import json,sys; print(json.load(open(sys.argv[1])).get("version",""))' "$PLUGIN_JSON")"
RELEASE_VER="${EXPECTED_VER%%+*}"
printf 'daemon=%s expected=%s release=%s\n' "$DAEMON_VER" "$EXPECTED_VER" "$RELEASE_VER"
else
echo "version_check=skipped"
fi
```
- Same version: continue to doctor.
- If the probe cannot run because the runtime is down: continue to bootstrap.
- If `PLUGIN_JSON` is unreadable or `python3` is missing: continue to doctor;
Codex will keep using this slice until the plugin cache is updated.
- If mismatch, check the direction before repairing. Compare the release part
of `daemon=` (strip the `+g<sha>` suffix) against `release=`, numeric per
component, not lexicographic. Daemon release equal or newer → the plugin
cache is stale, not the runtime: skip the repair below (it would only
reinstall the same-or-latest runtime and restart a healthy daemon) and go
straight to the stop message in step 4 — update the plugin, restart, rerun.
- Only if the daemon release is older than the plugin release, repair the
runtime:
```bash
PLUGIN_JSON="${CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT:-plugin-codex}/.codex-plugin/plugin.json"
[ -r "$PLUGIN_JSON" ] || PLUGIN_JSON=".codex-plugin/plugin.json"
EXPECTED_VER="$(python3 -c 'import json,sys; print(json.load(open(sys.argv[1])).get("version",""))' "$PLUGIN_JSON")"
RELEASE_VER="${EXPECTED_VER%%+*}"
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/7xuanlu/wenlan/v${RELEASE_VER}/install.sh | bash
export PATH="$HOME/.wenlan/bin:$PATH"
wenlan setup --basic
wenlan background on
```
Then continue to the health and version re-probe below. The installer deliberately
targets the latest stable runtime. Do not downgrade a newer runtime to match a
stale plugin cache.
### 3. Bootstrap
Detect whether the `wenlan` CLI is on PATH:
```bash
command -v wenlan >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo present || echo absent
```
If absent, install and configure local memory:
```bash
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/7xuanlu/wenlan/v0.17.6/install.sh | bash
export PATH="$HOME/.wenlan/bin:$PATH"
wenlan setup --basic
wenlan background on
```
If present but the local runtime is down:
```bash
wenlan setup --basic 2>/dev/null || true
wenlan background on
```
`wenlan setup --basic` is idempotent. `wenlan background on` starts the
managed background process.
### 4. Re-probe health and version
If `wenlan background on` exited non-zero, print its output and stop: it
already waited for the daemon and named what went wrong. Otherwise poll for up
to 240 seconds, the budget the first-run checks use, because a first boot
downloads the embedding model (about 210 MB) before it answers:
```bash
healthy=
deadline=$((SECONDS + 240))
while [ "$SECONDS" -lt "$deadline" ]; do
if curl -fsS -m 3 http://127.0.0.1:7878/api/health >/dev/null 2>&1; then
healthy=1
break
fi
sleep 1
done
if [ -z "$healthy" ]; then
W="$(command -v wenlan || echo "$HOME/.wenlan/bin/wenlan")"
"$W" doctor
exit 1
fi
```
When the loop ends without a healthy answer, the doctor output names the daemon
state and where its logs are (a file path on macOS, `journalctl` on Linux);
stop there. Likely causes: the model download is still running or failed,
launchd load failure, port 7878 already in use, or a local runtime crash.
Once healthy, repeat the version comparison from step 2. If the versions still
differ, stop instead of claiming setup succeeded:
```text
Runtime and plugin versions still differ after repair; update the Wenlan plugin,
restart Codex, then run /wenlan:setup again.
```
This usually means the runtime is newer than the plugin cached by the current
Codex process. Updating the plugin is safer than silently downgrading the
runtime, and the restart is required before this session can load new plugin
code.
### 5. Doctor
Run the Wenlan CLI doctor through the resolved binary path:
```bash
W="$(command -v wenlan || echo "$HOME/.wenlan/bin/wenlan")"
"$W" doctor
```
Expected: local memory configured. Capture the mode string for the final report.
### 6. MCP round-trip
Call the Wenlan MCP `brief` tool as a read-only round-trip.
```text
brief()
```
If it fails, report: "wenlan-mcp did not respond through Codex. Start a new
Codex thread after reinstalling the plugin so Codex respawns the MCP server."
### 7. Ready report
Print:
```text
Wenlan ready.
Runtime: up on 127.0.0.1:7878
Mode: <mode from CLI doctor>
MCP: connected
Data: ~/.wenlan/
Try: /brief, /capture <thing>
```
## Optional upgrades
Mention these only if the user asks for richer synthesis:
- `wenlan models install` for local model-backed distillation.
- `wenlan keys set anthropic` for stronger synthesis.
Installing a model or key only makes that provider available; it does not
authorize background inference. If the user wants automatic enrichment, run
`wenlan enrichment status`, help them choose the exact Everyday and Synthesis
sources, then run `wenlan enrichment configure --everyday <source> --synthesis
<source>`. The CLI itself shows the task mapping and cloud/on-device disclosure
and obtains the one confirmation. Never add `--yes` unless the user already
stated that exact mapping. `wenlan enrichment disable` reverses the consent
without deleting the model or key.
## Codex note
This Codex slice has no session-start hook. `/setup` is the explicit health and
version check until Codex exposes a lifecycle hook this plugin can use.
Scanned 8/31/2026
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