Geekbot Setup

Geekbot — Setup

Goal: get the user fully ready — CLI installed, CLI authenticated, and a clear "you're ready" or "here's what to do next" message at the end.

Steps

1. Check the CLI is on $PATH:

``bash command -v geekbot ``

1. Install if missing:

``bash npm install -g geekbot-cli ``

If npm isn't available, mention bun install -g geekbot-cli as an alternative and let the user run it themselves.

1. Verify the install:

``bash geekbot --version ``

1. Check auth (does not prompt):

``bash geekbot auth status ``

• If data.authenticated == true → skip to step 6.
• Otherwise → step 5.

1. Authenticate via OAuth — you drive geekbot auth login yourself.

Do NOT tell the user to run anything in their shell. Do NOT ask for an API key. The CLI's loopback flow only exposes a public authorize URL (no secrets), and writes the resulting cli_* token to the user's OS keychain on their own machine when the flow completes.

Procedure:

a. Start the login command in the background. Use Bash with run_in_background: true so you can read the verification URL while the CLI waits on its loopback listener. Always pass --no-browser — you can't pick the user's browser for them, especially on WSL where xdg-open would launch the Linux default rather than the browser that holds the user's Geekbot dashboard session.

``bash geekbot auth login --no-browser --ttl-days 30 ``

b. Capture the authorize URL. Call BashOutput on the background shell once, then again a second later if needed, until stderr contains a line that starts with https:// and a URL pointing at /v2/authorize?.... The CLI prints a block like:

`` Listening on http://127.0.0.1:/callback for the OAuth callback… Open this URL in a browser to sign in: https://oauth.geekbot.com/v2/authorize?...&state=...&code_challenge=... Only open it ONCE — the state is single-use. ``

c. Show the URL to the user, exactly once. Reply with something like:

> To finish signing in to Geekbot, open this URL in any browser > you're already logged into your dashboard with: > > ` > > Only open it once — the OAuth state` is single-use, so a second > browser will fail.

d. Wait for the command to exit. Continue calling BashOutput periodically until the background shell completes. Don't pre-empt with a timeout shorter than the CLI's own (~5 min).

e. Parse the outcome:

• Exit 0 — stdout contains a JSON envelope of shape

{"ok": true, "data": {"authenticated": true, "method": "oauth_loopback", "username": ..., "email": ...}}. Proceed to step 6.

• Non-zero exit — stdout/stderr contains an error envelope.

Common codes:

• oauth_callback_timeout — user didn't click in time. Offer to

retry from step 5a.

• oauth_access_denied — user clicked "Cancel" at the IdP.
• oauth_state_mismatch / oauth_invalid_request — they opened

the URL twice; retry, remind them once is enough.

• oauth_invalid_client — the CLI's client_id isn't registered

on the auth server; this is an environment issue, not a user one — report it and stop.

Fallback only — do NOT suggest unless OAuth login fails twice in a row or the user explicitly asks for it. Long-lived dashboard API keys still work via:

• Get the key from https://app.geekbot.com/dashboard/api-webhooks
• Then run: ! geekbot auth setup --api-key

1. Report final state. Example:

`` geekbot CLI: installed (v0.2.4) Auth: authenticated as sabpap@geekbot.com (oauth_loopback) Next: you're ready — try "fetch my standups" ``

If auth is still missing, end with "run /geekbot:geekbot-setup again after completing the geekbot auth login step."

Why not handle the credential directly

API keys and CLI tokens are secrets. Pasting one into the conversation puts it in the transcript and any logs/exports derived from it. The CLI's auth login flow keeps the token on the user's machine end-to-end: the auth server hands it to the local CLI, which writes it straight to the OS keychain. Once stored, every later geekbot … call authenticates silently.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: geekbot-com
• Source: geekbot-com/geekbot-cli
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.