# Secondmate Provisioning

Load when creating, seeding, validating, launching, recovering, handing backlog to...

- Repository: https://github.com/kunchenguid/firstmate (8480 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add kunchenguid/firstmate --skill secondmate-provisioning -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add kunchenguid/firstmate --skill secondmate-provisioning -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add kunchenguid/firstmate --skill secondmate-provisioning -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add kunchenguid/firstmate --skill secondmate-provisioning -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Load when creating, seeding, validating, launching, recovering, handing backlog to, pushing inherited local material into, or retiring a secondmate home, or when editing data/secondmates.md.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# secondmate-provisioning

Use this reference before creating, seeding, validating, launching, handing backlog to, recovering, pushing inherited local material into, or retiring a persistent secondmate, and before editing `data/secondmates.md`.

Keep the always-inline routing rules in `AGENTS.md` authoritative: route by natural-language `scope:`, local-only projects stay with the main firstmate, and secondmates are idle by default.

## Routing table

`data/secondmates.md` has one parser-compatible line per persistent second mate.
A local route uses:

```markdown
- <id> - <one-sentence charter summary> (home: <absolute-home-path>; scope: <natural-language responsibility>; projects: <project-a>, <project-b>; added <date>)
```

A whole-home remote route uses:

```markdown
- <id> - <one-sentence charter summary> (host: <ssh-alias>; root: <absolute-remote-code-root>; home: <absolute-remote-home>; scope: <natural-language responsibility>; projects: <project-a>, <project-b>; added <date>)
```

The rest: https://github.com/kunchenguid/firstmate/blob/HEAD/.agents/skills/secondmate-provisioning/SKILL.md