dev-tools

Developer tooling for the BoomTick repository. The primary entry point is td, but agents should always call boomtick-mcp Tier 1 tools first — td is the Tier 2 fallback. See AGENTS.md for the full tool hierarchy.

🚀 One-Step Setup

./setup-agent.sh

This setup script is now located at the repository root (not symlinked) and handles system tools, Node.js, pnpm, Python dependencies, Playwright, remote origin configuration, and git hook registration.

🔑 Environment Variables

Secret handling guidance

• GitHub Actions / agent runners: store GITHUB_TOKEN, JULES_API_KEY, and GEMINI_API_KEY in repository or org Secrets.
• Dev containers / local shells: export secrets before running setup/CLI:

export GITHUB_TOKEN="<token>"
export GITHUB_REPOSITORY="owner/repo"
# optional
export JULES_API_KEY="<key>"
export GEMINI_API_KEY="<key>"

Optional tuning variables

• SKIP_GIT_HOOKS=1 — skip git hook execution (e.g. in CI).
• SKIP_VALIDATION=1 — skip post-setup runtime validation.
• NODE_MAJOR — override Node major used for apt installation (defaults to 24).

🧩 Workflow-Specific Setup

After ./setup-agent.sh, use the following workflow-specific setup:

1) Standard PR / Review Workflows

• Plan a review (fetches context and audits):
  • td agent plan-review --pr <PR_NUMBER>
• Submit audit results (after authoring the review in pr-review-<PR>.md):
  • td gh audit-pr <PR_NUMBER> --submit --execute
• Pre-submit quality gate before push/merge:
  • td gh pre-submit

2) Jules Workflows

• Required secret: JULES_API_KEY.
• Optional context env var: JULES_SOURCE_ID (if your environment already knows the source mapping).
• Typical commands:
  • td agent dispatch <BRANCH> "<TASK>"
  • td agent fix-ci --pr-number <PR> --execute
  • td agent sync

3) Headless / Bot Auditing

• For batch auditing open PRs:
  • td gh audit-pr <PR_NUMBER> --fetch --audit --submit --execute
• Ensure jq, gh, Python deps, and pnpm deps are installed (handled by setup script).

🗂️ Agent Context Index

.agent-context.json (repository root) is the pre-built index that boomtick-mcp reads on every tool call. It contains file_tree, cli_schema, and package_json metadata — built by scripts/build-repo-context.py.

The index is kept fresh automatically by the git hooks registered during ./setup-agent.sh:

• .githooks/post-checkout — refreshes on branch switch
• .githooks/post-merge — refreshes on pull/merge

To manually refresh:

pnpm run agent:prime

If the index is stale, MCP tools fall back to raw filesystem calls, bypassing the index and increasing token usage. Always refresh before running reviews or dispatching Jules sessions.

🤖 Agent / Jules GitHub Command Pattern

Always use boomtick-mcp Tier 1 tools first. td is the fallback when MCP is unavailable — not the default. See AGENTS.md for the full tool mapping table.

When td must be called directly, read the CLI schema from .agent-context.json rather than guessing flags or running --help:

# Extract schema for a specific subcommand before calling it
cat .agent-context.json | python3 -c "
import json, sys
schema = json.load(sys.stdin)
print(json.dumps(schema['cli_schema']['subcommands']['gh pr-diff'], indent=2))
"

Prefer repository CLI commands over raw gh:

# ✅ Preferred
td gh <repo-command>

# ⚠️ Only if td does not expose the operation
gh <command>

If auth fails, do not run gh auth login. Instead, set an environment secret named GITHUB_TOKEN.

✅ Verification Commands (Post-Setup)

node --version         # should match .node-version
pnpm --version         # should be 10.28.2
td doctor
pnpm run check:runtime-files
gh auth status

🆘 Troubleshooting

GitHub CLI not authenticated

gh issue create --title "<title>" --body "<details>"

If auth fails, report this exact issue (do not run interactive auth):

GitHub CLI is not authenticated. Please add an environment secret named GITHUB_TOKEN with a repo-scoped GitHub token.

.agent-context.json stale or missing

pnpm run agent:prime

Then re-read before proceeding with any agent operation.

pnpm / Node mismatch

Stop and report the mismatch. Do not attempt to change runtime versions unless explicitly instructed to update the runtime contract.

🚀 Repository CLI (td)

td is the Tier 2 unified entry point for local repository automation. All available subcommands and flags are defined in cli/dev_tools/cli-schema.json (also embedded in .agent-context.json under cli_schema). That file is the single source of truth — never use --help to discover flags.

Key subcommand groups: