Ouroboros Setup

Ouroboros Setup is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by Q00 in ouroboros.

5.4K stars550 forkson Q00/ouroborosAdded 2026/08/16+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/16

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Install Ouroboros Setup

Copy Ouroboros Setup into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/tree/main/skills/setup ~/.claude/skills/setup

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/setup/SKILL.md in Q00/ouroboros
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/setup
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Ouroboros Setup does

Ouroboros Setup guides users through a six-step onboarding wizard to install and configure the Ouroboros agent development environment. It detects Python, configures the selected runtime backend, and writes the necessary config files for standalone or Copilot CLI use.

Ouroboros Setup is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Ouroboros Setup comes from a repository tagged agent-os, agentic-ai, ai-agent, ai-coding-agent and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/ouroboros:setup

Guided onboarding wizard that converts users into power users.

Standalone users (Codex, pip install): Use ouroboros setup --runtime codex in your terminal instead. This skill runs inside a Claude Code session. For other runtime backends, the CLI ouroboros setup command handles configuration. For full install and onboarding instructions, see Getting Started.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Ouroboros Setup

What else does Q00 publish alongside Ouroboros Setup?
Ouroboros Setup is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Q00/ouroboros, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Brownfield, Brownfield and Cancel. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Ouroboros Setup does, and is maintained by Q00 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Q00/ouroboros page.
How does Ouroboros Setup compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Ouroboros Setup ranks #474 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Ouroboros Setup against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.