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onboard

First-run setup for the jewish-utilities plugin. Captures the user's location (city, latitude, longitude, timezone) and writes it to a config file so that location-dependent skills (shabbat-times, zmanim) can read it without re-asking each time. Run this once before using shabbat-times or zmanim, or any time the user moves.

npx claudepluginhub danielrosehill/claude-code-plugins --plugin jewish-utilities

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This skill establishes per-user context for the jewish-utilities plugin. Most importantly, it captures the user's **geographic location**, which is required for any halachic time calculation (shabbat candle-lighting, havdalah, zmanim).

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Onboard

This skill establishes per-user context for the jewish-utilities plugin. Most importantly, it captures the user's geographic location, which is required for any halachic time calculation (shabbat candle-lighting, havdalah, zmanim).

Storage location

Resolve the data root with this snippet (POSIX shell):

DATA_ROOT="${CLAUDE_USER_DATA:-${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/claude-plugins}/jewish-utilities"
mkdir -p "$DATA_ROOT"
CONFIG_FILE="$DATA_ROOT/config.json"

Never write to ~/.claude/plugins/jewish-utilities/ — that directory is clobbered on plugin update.

What to ask

Interview the user for:

City (free text, e.g. "Jerusalem", "Brooklyn, NY"). Used as a human-readable label and as a lookup key for hebcal where supported.
Latitude / longitude (decimal degrees). Required for precise zmanim. If the user doesn't know, geocode the city and confirm the result with the user before saving.
Timezone (IANA name, e.g. Asia/Jerusalem, America/New_York). If unsure, derive from the lat/lon and confirm.
Candle-lighting offset (minutes before sunset; default 18, Jerusalem custom 40). Optional — leave null to use hebcal's default.
Havdalah method (e.g. tzeit_3_stars, fixed minutes after sunset). Optional.
Nusach (Ashkenaz / Sephard / Edot HaMizrach) — optional, used by some text-rendering tools.

What to save

Write config.json:

{
  "version": 1,
  "location": {
    "city": "Jerusalem",
    "latitude": 31.7683,
    "longitude": 35.2137,
    "timezone": "Asia/Jerusalem"
  },
  "candle_lighting_minutes": 40,
  "havdalah_method": "tzeit_3_stars",
  "nusach": "ashkenaz"
}

If a config already exists, read it first, show the user current values, and only overwrite fields they want to change.

After saving

Tell the user:

Where the config was saved.
That shabbat-times and zmanim will now use this location automatically.
That they can re-run /jewish-utilities:onboard any time to update.
Suggest they also run /jewish-utilities:install-companion-plugins to install jewish-texts-reference for Sefaria text lookups.