Essential bootstraps are the first thing you should run after connecting to a new Lowkey agent. They don’t add optional features — they establish the baseline your agent needs to behave correctly and safely. Without them, the agent uses default settings that are often wrong for a production AWS environment: the wrong model context window, no coding standards, no memory search, and no disk space awareness.
Run all essential bootstraps at once
Paste this into your agent chat:
Lowkey please bootstrap yourself based on this url https://github.com/inceptionstack/lowkey/tree/main/bootstraps/essential
Run BOOTSTRAP-MODEL-CONFIG before any other bootstrap. It sets the correct model context window for Claude on Bedrock — without it, Opus 4.6 gets capped at 32K tokens instead of 200K, which causes frequent context limit errors during long tasks.
| Bootstrap | What it sets up |
|---|
| BOOTSTRAP-MODEL-CONFIG | AI model settings: Opus 4.6 for interactive sessions, Sonnet 4.6 for cron jobs. Fixes the 200K context window for Bedrock. |
| BOOTSTRAP-ALARMS | CloudWatch alarm monitoring with four tiers: instance survival (auto-recover), alert thresholds, service health checks, and operational awareness metrics. |
| BOOTSTRAP-CODING-GUIDELINES | Development standards: no hardcoded secrets, Graviton ARM64 by default, IaC-first, no manual deploys, Git hygiene rules. Runs a daily automated audit. |
| BOOTSTRAP-DAILY-UPDATE | Daily status update procedure: AWS costs, security findings, CVEs, pipeline status — delivered before you open your laptop. |
| BOOTSTRAP-DIAGRAMS | Architecture diagram generation using standard AWS diagram tools. |
| BOOTSTRAP-DISK-SPACE-STRAT | Disk space management strategy for the agent’s EBS volume, including cleanup rules and alerting thresholds. |
| BOOTSTRAP-MCPORTER | MCPorter for calling MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers from the command line, no IDE required. |
| BOOTSTRAP-MEMORY-SEARCH | Persistent memory search so the agent can recall past conversations, decisions, and deployed resources across sessions. |
| BOOTSTRAP-PLAYWRIGHT | Playwright browser automation for tasks that require web interaction. |
| BOOTSTRAP-SECRETS-AWS | AWS secrets and credential management via Secrets Manager and SSM Parameter Store. |
| BOOTSTRAP-SECURITY | Security protocols: allowlist policies, GuardDuty integration, coding-level security rules, and safe handling of destructive operations. |
| BOOTSTRAP-SKILLS | Skills and capabilities configuration — what the agent knows how to do and how it loads domain-specific skill files. |
Run a specific bootstrap individually
If you need to re-run or update a single bootstrap, point your agent at the specific file:
Lowkey please bootstrap yourself based on this url https://github.com/inceptionstack/lowkey/blob/main/bootstraps/essential/BOOTSTRAP-MODEL-CONFIG.md
BOOTSTRAP-MODEL-CONFIG.md with the filename of whichever bootstrap you want to run. This is useful after an agent update or if you want to refresh a single configuration without re-running the entire set.
After the essential bootstraps complete, your agent writes marker files (e.g. memory/.bootstrapped-model-config) so it knows which bootstraps have already run. If you re-run the full essential set, already-completed bootstraps are skipped automatically.
