# Bootstrap · youknowfred

> Run this once per machine (not per project) to build the shared plugin venv and warm the offline embedding model cache. Use when a user says "bootstrap memory", "set up hippo", "/hippo:bootstrap", or when /hippo:doctor reports the venv/model cache is missing. Idempotent — safe to re-run; it no-ops via a sentinel file if already bootstrapped. Pass --multilingual to switch to a multilingual embedding model for non-English corpora.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-youknowfred-bootstrap
- tashan id: skill:youknowfred/bootstrap
- Source: https://github.com/youknowfred/hippo
- Type: skill
- Category: ai
- tashan score: 49.0 / 100
- Adoption: 17.0
- Upkeep: 82.0
- Freshness: 100.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: MIT
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r bootstrap ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-20 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.