smithery/davekilleen

reset

Re-run the setup questions over an existing Dex vault when preferences or setup answers changed, without losing data.

Installation

$ npx skills add smithery/davekilleen --skill reset

Summary

  • Re-run the setup questions over an existing Dex vault when preferences or setup answers changed, without losing data.
  • Use when the user says 'restructure my Dex', 'redo my setup', 'my pillars are wrong now'.
  • Not for a job or role change; use `change-job` — it runs this same reset plus the people, archive and task passes.
  • Not for first-time setup; use `setup`.
  • Not for just toggling one feature; use `manage-capabilities`.

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  • skill md SKILL.md 6,072 B
  • docs SUMMARY.md 68 B

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SKILL.md

Reset Dex for changed answers

If 04-Projects/ does not exist, this vault was never set up. Use setup instead.

If the user actually changed jobs or roles — new employer, new email domain, an old identity to archive — use change-job instead: it runs this same reset and then guides the passes a reset alone never touches (re-sorting people for the new domain, archiving old-role goals, priorities and projects, re-pointing open tasks). A reset by itself is the right lever only for changed preferences or answers within the same working life.

To turn a single room on or off, use manage-capabilities — it is a much smaller change than a full reset and never touches the rest of the profile.

Otherwise:

  1. Tell the user what a reset does and does not do, and get an explicit yes before

calling anything:

> "I'll walk you through the same questions as first-time setup and rewrite your > profile — role, company, pillars, communication style, working week and rooms. > Every setting you don't re-answer carries forward unchanged, and nothing > you've written is deleted or moved: your notes, people, meetings and > projects all stay exactly where they are. Want to go ahead?"

Stop here if they decline.

  1. Call startonboardingsession(force_new=True) from onboarding-mcp. The

forcenew flag is what makes this a reset rather than resuming a half-finished setup. Know what it re-arms: the fresh session clears the calendar answer and the harness confirmation, so the flow's calendar step and harness-selection confirmation must both be replayed — finalizeonboarding refuses to run until each has been addressed again. Do not skip past them expecting the old answers to still count.

  1. Read .claude/flows/onboarding.md and follow it as the single source of the

conversation, exactly as setup does.

  1. Before finalizing, call finalizeonboarding(dryrun=True) and show the user

what it reports it would create, plus the profilechanges list — every profile setting that will change, old value → new value. Settings not in that list carry forward. Tell the user that on a vault that already completed onboarding, finalizing first takes a snapshot of the current profile, pillars and room choices — before anything is rewritten — so the reset can be checked afterwards and undone if it went wrong. Then call finalizeonboarding().

  1. After finalizing, show the user the transition_verification summary from the

finalize response — it reads "Changed (you chose): … Carried forward: N settings. Lost: none." Read it before relaying it: if it reports anything lost or changed outside their answers, say so plainly instead of declaring success, and offer restoretransitioncapsule — preview first (it defaults to a dry run), then rerun it with dryrun=false if they want the two settings files put back exactly as they were. verifytransition re-runs the same check anytime against the snapshot named in the response.

What a reset actually changes

Say this honestly — do not promise more:

  • Rewritten: System/user-profile.yaml, System/pillars.yaml, and the room

set, through the onboarding MCP and core/capabilities.py.

  • Carried forward: on a vault that completed onboarding, every profile

setting the user does not re-answer keeps its current value — calendar connection, work email, working context, journaling, meeting sources, timezone, quarterly planning, entity-creation mode, analytics identity, and the rest. Rooms the user disabled stay disabled unless they are re-answered. In System/pillars.yaml, priority_limits survives, and a pillar kept under the same name keeps its keywords and description. Only a vault that never finished onboarding is rebuilt from the answers alone.

  • Added if missing: any folders and starter files the new role needs.

Finalizing only creates what is not already there.

  • Left alone: every existing folder and file. A reset does not rename, merge

or move your content. If the new role means you want Pipeline/ renamed to Portfolio/, that is a manual choice the user makes afterwards — offer to help, do not do it silently as part of the reset. The completion marker keeps its original setup date; the reset is recorded alongside it, not over it.

  • Snapshotted and checked: before rewriting anything, finalize captures the

current user-profile.yaml, pillars.yaml and room states, then verifies the result against the keys the re-answered steps were allowed to change. The snapshot stays in System/.dex/transition-capsules/ and can restore those two files exactly — it is not a backup of anything else.

Rules

This file deliberately contains no question script, no role list and no company-size list, so reset cannot fork away from setup. The roles, the area→role picker and every other question live in .claude/flows/onboarding.md; change them only there.

Never create folders, move files, or edit CLAUDE.md or System/user-profile.yaml by hand in this skill. core/provision.cjs, core.lifecycle.service and core/capabilities.py own all vault mutation, and the onboarding MCP owns all profile writes and their validation.


Track Usage (Silent)

Update System/usage_log.md to mark vault reset as used.

Analytics (Silent):

Call trackevent with eventname vault_reset and properties:

  • (no properties)

This only fires if the user has opted into analytics. No action needed if it returns "analytics_disabled".