Interactive settings menu for nyann preferences. View current values in a table, then pick one setting to change at a time via AskUserQuestion. Re-runnable anytime — does not require a full setup wizard. TRIGGER when the user says "change nyann settings", "nyann preferences", "configure nyann settings", "update my preferences", "toggle triage", "disable sentinel", "enable session triage", "/nyann:settings", "show nyann settings", "nyann config". ALSO trigger on direct shortcut: "/nyann:settin...
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---
name: settings
description: >
Interactive settings menu for nyann preferences. View current values
in a table, then pick one setting to change at a time via
AskUserQuestion. Re-runnable anytime — does not require a full setup
wizard.
TRIGGER when the user says "change nyann settings", "nyann
preferences", "configure nyann settings", "update my preferences",
"toggle triage", "disable sentinel", "enable session triage",
"/nyann:settings", "show nyann settings", "nyann config".
ALSO trigger on direct shortcut: "/nyann:settings <key> <value>" —
skip the menu and write the value directly.
Do NOT trigger on "/nyann:setup" — that is the first-run wizard.
Do NOT trigger on "/nyann:check-prereqs" — that inspects host tools,
not nyann config.
---
# settings
> **CRITICAL**: This skill uses `AskUserQuestion` for every choice.
> **NEVER ask the user questions as plain text.**
**Script paths:** nyann is a Claude Code plugin. Plugin root is two
levels above this SKILL.md (`<plugin_root>/skills/settings/SKILL.md`).
All scripts live at `<plugin_root>/bin/`.
## Step 0: Verify setup ran
Run `bash <plugin_root>/bin/setup.sh --check --json`. If
`status != "configured"`, hand off to the `setup` skill — settings
edits a file that doesn't exist yet.
## Step 1: Direct shortcut path
If the user typed `/nyann:settings <key> <value>` (or otherwise gave
both a key and a value in natural language), skip the menu and run:
```
bash <plugin_root>/bin/settings.sh --set <key> <value>
```
Surface the one-line confirmation and stop. No further prompts.
## Step 2: Show current preferences
Run `bash <plugin_root>/bin/settings.sh --show` and render the output
as a markdown table:
```
| Setting | Value |
|----------------------------------|-----------------------------|
| Default profile | auto-detect |
| Branching strategy | auto-detect |
| Commit format | conventional-commits |
| GitHub CLI | enabled |
| Documentation storage | local |
| Auto-sync team profiles | off |
| Session triage | enabled |
| Guard severity (default) | advisory |
| CI sentinel notifications | enabled |
| Staleness alerts | enabled |
| Git identity | Name <email> |
```
## Step 3: Ask which setting to change
Call `AskUserQuestion` with options listing each setting. Add a final
"Done — no changes" option:
AskUserQuestion caps the options array at 4 entries per question, so present
the picker in two passes: first ask the user which group of settings to
explore, then ask which specific setting in that group to change.
Pass 1 — group picker:
```json
{
"questions": [
{
"question": "Which group of settings would you like to change?",
"header": "Group",
"multiSelect": false,
"options": [
{ "label": "Core (profile, branching, commits, GitHub CLI)", "description": "Day-to-day defaults" },
{ "label": "Documentation + team sync", "description": "Docs storage, auto-sync of team profile sources" },
{ "label": "Proactive features (triage, guards, notifications)", "description": "Awareness + monitoring toggles" },
{ "label": "Done — no changes", "description": "Exit without writing" }
]
}
]
}
```
Pass 2 — based on the group, ask the specific setting:
**Core group:**
```json
{
"questions": [{
"question": "Which core setting would you like to change?",
"header": "Setting",
"multiSelect": false,
"options": [
{ "label": "Default profile", "description": "Stack-aware preference for which profile to apply" },
{ "label": "Branching strategy", "description": "github-flow | gitflow | trunk-based | auto-detect" },
{ "label": "Commit format", "description": "conventional-commits | custom" },
{ "label": "GitHub CLI", "description": "enabled | disabled (branch protection, PR helpers)" }
]
}]
}
```
**Documentation + team sync group:**
```json
{
"questions": [{
"question": "Which documentation / team-sync setting?",
"header": "Setting",
"multiSelect": false,
"options": [
{ "label": "Documentation storage", "description": "local | obsidian | notion" },
{ "label": "Auto-sync team profiles", "description": "Auto-sync team profile sources during bootstrap" }
]
}]
}
```
**Proactive features group:**
```json
{
"questions": [{
"question": "Which proactive-feature toggle?",
"header": "Setting",
"multiSelect": false,
"options": [
{ "label": "Session triage", "description": "Quiet drift check on first message each session" },
{ "label": "Guard severity (default)", "description": "advisory | confirm — pre-action guard severity floor" },
{ "label": "Notifications (sentinel/staleness)", "description": "In-session CI sentinel + doc staleness toggles" },
{ "label": "Notification delivery", "description": "Send alerts to Slack/Discord/webhook/email" }
]
}]
}
```
If the user picks **Notifications (sentinel/staleness)**, ask which of the two
in-session toggles to change (CI sentinel notifications | Staleness alerts),
then go to Step 4 for that toggle.
If the user picks **Notification delivery**, run the delivery sub-flow
(Step 3a) below instead of Step 4 — delivery channels are multi-field, not a
single enum.
### Step 3a: Notification delivery sub-flow
External delivery fans queued notifications out to Slack, Discord, a generic
webhook, email, a GitHub issue digest, or a native OS toast. First pick the
channel (AskUserQuestion caps at 4 options — split into two pages, secrets
first):
```json
{
"questions": [{
"question": "Which delivery channel?",
"header": "Channel",
"multiSelect": false,
"options": [
{ "label": "Slack", "description": "Incoming webhook ({text: ...})" },
{ "label": "Discord", "description": "Webhook ({content: ...})" },
{ "label": "Webhook", "description": "Generic endpoint — raw JSON POST" },
{ "label": "More…", "description": "Email, GitHub issue digest, native OS toast" }
]
}]
}
```
On **More…**, offer Email / GitHub issues / Native as the second page.
Then, **because delivery secrets must never live in `preferences.json`**, ask
for the *name of an environment variable* that holds the endpoint URL — never
the URL itself. Tell the user to `export NYANN_SLACK_WEBHOOK=https://...` in
their shell profile, then store only the name here. Set the channel with the
direct `--set` calls (one per field):
- Slack: `notifications.delivery.slack.webhook_url_env <ENV_NAME>` then
`notifications.delivery.slack.enabled true`
- Discord: `notifications.delivery.discord.webhook_url_env <ENV_NAME>` then
`notifications.delivery.discord.enabled true`
- Webhook: `notifications.delivery.webhook.url_env <ENV_NAME>` then
`notifications.delivery.webhook.enabled true`
- Email: `notifications.delivery.email.to <addr>`,
`notifications.delivery.email.from <addr>`, optional
`notifications.delivery.email.smtp_env <ENV_NAME>`, then
`notifications.delivery.email.enabled true`
Two channels carry NO secrets (skip the env-var step entirely):
- GitHub issues: one open "nyann sentinel digest" issue per repo collects a
comment per batch (never issue-per-notification), through gh's own auth.
Optional `notifications.delivery.github_issues.repo <owner/repo>` routes
every digest to one central repo; optional `.labels <csv>` (stored as an
array; default `nyann-sentinel`); then
`notifications.delivery.github_issues.enabled true`. Warn that enabling
this on a team repo is team-visible.
- Native OS toast (macOS osascript / Linux notify-send; a batch collapses
to one toast): just `notifications.delivery.native.enabled true`.
`bin/settings.sh` REFUSES any value that looks like a URL (`http(s)://`) for a
delivery key and prints why — surface that error verbatim and re-ask for the
env-var NAME. After writing, return to Step 6.
(If the user expressed interest in a specific setting in their initial
message — e.g., "toggle triage" — go straight to that setting's value
picker without showing the group menu.)
## Step 4: Ask for the new value
Once the user picks a setting, call `AskUserQuestion` with the valid
values for that setting (see `bin/settings.sh` for the enums). Example
for **Session triage**:
```json
{
"questions": [
{
"question": "Enable session-start drift triage?",
"header": "Session triage",
"multiSelect": false,
"options": [
{ "label": "Enabled (Recommended)", "description": "Quiet drift check on first message each session" },
{ "label": "Disabled", "description": "Skip the check; rely on /nyann:doctor manually" }
]
}
]
}
```
## Step 5: Write the value
Map the picker choice to the `--set <key> <value>` invocation. Key/value
table:
| Setting | Key | Values |
|--------------------------|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
| Default profile | `default_profile` | `auto-detect` or `<profile-name>` |
| Branching strategy | `branching_strategy` | `auto-detect`, `github-flow`, `gitflow`, `trunk-based` |
| Commit format | `commit_format` | `conventional-commits`, `custom` |
| GitHub CLI | `gh_integration` | `true`, `false` |
| Documentation storage | `documentation_storage` | `local`, `obsidian`, `notion` |
| Auto-sync team profiles | `auto_sync_team_profiles` | `true`, `false` |
| Session triage | `session_triage` | `true`, `false` |
| Guard severity (default) | `guard_default_severity` | `advisory`, `confirm` |
| CI sentinel | `notifications.sentinel` | `true`, `false` |
| Staleness alerts | `notifications.staleness_alerts` | `true`, `false` |
| Slack delivery on/off | `notifications.delivery.slack.enabled` | `true`, `false` |
| Slack endpoint env name | `notifications.delivery.slack.webhook_url_env` | env-var NAME (e.g. `NYANN_SLACK_WEBHOOK`) |
| Discord delivery on/off | `notifications.delivery.discord.enabled` | `true`, `false` |
| Discord endpoint env name| `notifications.delivery.discord.webhook_url_env` | env-var NAME |
| Webhook delivery on/off | `notifications.delivery.webhook.enabled` | `true`, `false` |
| Webhook endpoint env name| `notifications.delivery.webhook.url_env` | env-var NAME |
| Email delivery on/off | `notifications.delivery.email.enabled` | `true`, `false` |
| Email recipient | `notifications.delivery.email.to` | address |
| Email sender | `notifications.delivery.email.from` | address |
| Email SMTP relay env name| `notifications.delivery.email.smtp_env` | env-var NAME (optional; else `sendmail`) |
Run:
```
bash <plugin_root>/bin/settings.sh --set <key> <value>
```
## Step 6: Loop or exit
After the write succeeds, show the updated row and call
`AskUserQuestion` once more: "Change another setting?" → If yes, jump
to Step 3. If no, print a short confirmation and exit.
## Notes
- The script validates every value against the schema; if it rejects,
surface the error verbatim and re-ask the picker.
- This skill **never** modifies `git_identity` interactively — git
identity is set once at setup time. Edit it via the direct shortcut:
`/nyann:settings git_identity.name "Foo Bar"`.
- For first-time users with no `preferences.json`, hand off to the
`setup` skill instead of trying to construct the file from scratch.
- **Delivery secrets are never stored.** The `notifications.delivery.*`
`*_env` keys hold only the NAME of an environment variable; nyann reads the
actual URL/token from that env var at delivery time. `bin/settings.sh`
rejects any literal `http(s)://` value for a delivery key — if it does, the
user pasted a URL where an env-var name belongs. Setting any delivery key
upgrades the file to schemaVersion 3.