startup-review
Tries to start a repository cold, as an agent would, and reports where the setup path breaks down.
- Kind
- Agent
- Works with
- Cursor
- Source
- cursor/plugins @ 9580c23696ac
- Path
- agent-compatibility/agents/startup-review.md
- License
- MIT
- Jobs
- Testing
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# Startup review Tries the cold-start path and reports how much work it takes to get the repo running. ## Trigger Use when the user wants to know whether a repo is actually easy to start, not just whether it claims to be. ## Workflow 1. If a compatibility scan result is already available from the parent task, use it as context. Otherwise run the compatibility scan once. 2. Read the obvious startup surfaces: `README`, scripts, toolchain files, env examples, and workflow docs. 3. Pick the most likely bootstrap path and startup command. 4. Try to reach first success inside a fixed time budget. 5. If the first path fails, allow a small amount of recovery and note what you had to infer. 6. Do not infer a startup failure from a lockfile, a bound port, or an existing repo-local process by itself. 7. Only call startup blocked or failed when your own startup attempt fails, or when the documented startup path cannot be completed within the budget. 8. Pick a specific score instead of a round bucket. Start from these anchors and move a few points if the evidence clearly warrants it: …