The environment facts every other RHDH skill starts from: which repositories are checked out and where, which tools are on PATH, which RHDH and Backstage versions this checkout targets, and where its configuration lives. Callers invoke this skill by name and read what it reports; they never inspect its files or import its Python package.
What this skill hands back
Run this before another skill needs repository, tool, version, or configuration facts:
python scripts/context.py --project-root <repo> --json
It prints one JSON object and nothing else: repositories is an array of {name, path}, tools
maps each probed tool to installed, missing, or not-probed, and configuration carries the
config paths plus targetRhdh, targetBackstage, and source. The source is user when
--target-rhdh is given, repository when the checkout pins a version in backstage.json, and
rhdh-context when the answer comes from the checked-in compatibility matrix.
Consume the whole object. Reuse it within the session unless configuration or repository state
changes. When a required capability is missing, name that capability and tell the human to run
/setup-rhdh-skills; a model skill cannot invoke that human-only entry point.
Preserved CLI
Run the CLI from this skill directory as uv run scripts/rhdh <command>. It is a
bundled wrapper, not an installed executable: npx skills add copies skill
directories and installs no console script. The wrapper declares no
dependencies — the rhdh package beside it is stdlib-only.
| Outcome | Interface |
|---|---|
| Environment orientation and diagnostics | uv run scripts/rhdh status, uv run scripts/rhdh doctor |
| Layered project/user configuration | uv run scripts/rhdh config ... |
| Repository submodule setup | uv run scripts/rhdh setup submodule ... |
| Overlay workspace inspection | uv run scripts/rhdh workspace ... |
| Worklog state | uv run scripts/rhdh log ... |
| Todo state | uv run scripts/rhdh todo ... |
Config, worklog, todo, JSON output shapes, exit codes, and existing .rhdh state remain compatible.
Local runtime actions belong to /rhdh-local. The compatibility command
uv run scripts/rhdh local ... delegates to the standalone rhdh-local executable; this skill
does not import or locate another skill's files.
Handoffs
Handoffs stay in the conversation. This skill prints its context as JSON; the caller reads it and carries what it needs.
When the human needs context to survive into a later session, tell them to run /handoff, which
writes a summary to the operating system temporary directory. That is a human-invoked skill and a
deliberate action, not something this skill does on their behalf.
Conditional references
- Read references/rhdh-repos.md when identifying an RHDH repository or explaining ecosystem relationships.
- Read references/versions.md when a workflow needs the checked-in compatibility matrix. Prefer live repository facts when they disagree with cached prose.
Completion
Complete when the answer names the resolved repositories and their paths, the tool status, the target RHDH and Backstage versions with the source that produced them, and every capability the caller still has to set up. A repository that is not configured is reported with a null path, never guessed. The caller receives the facts themselves, not a path to a file it has to open.