build_demo.py reads every key with cfg.get(), so a config describing objects it does
not implement was skipped in silence — it printed DONE over an empty database. That
is the same "reports success over an environment that isn't" failure the purge section
exists to prevent, one layer up, and it is how a vertical config (take-offs, progress
statements) would have failed.
Unknown top-level keys now list themselves and abort. DEMO_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_KEYS=1
overrides for a deliberate partial run. Keys starting with _ stay free for comments,
so the shipped example config passes clean.
SKILL.md now states outright that build_demo.py is a per-engagement template rather
than an engine, since that is what makes the failure mode surprising.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Callista consumes this pipeline for both plain Odoo implementations and
vertical demos, and is not a maintainer upstream — so the generic demo craft
that had accumulated in the buildease-demo vertical skill lands here instead,
where every engagement can reach it.
Moved in from buildease-demo (they were never construction-specific):
- Phase A: discovery brief from a transcript, notes, email, Knowcap, or a
batched interview. Replaces the Knowcap-bound step 1. Infers before it asks.
- Fork the slow half: instance prep and client research as two parallel
subagents, then join.
- Purge test residue: ordering, traps, read-back-the-counts evidence.
- Phase C: objection sheet, scoped quote, implementation timeline, SOW.
New here:
- Extension points — a vertical supplies module routing, solution precedence,
purge chain, demo-data policy and follow-through framing, and nothing else.
Anything it needs beyond those is a gap to fix here, not to work around.
- Named steps instead of numbered ones. Numbering meant an upstream renumber
silently misrouted an extending skill with nothing to detect it.
Renamed the skill to callista-odoo-demo: skills resolve by directory name, so
a same-named fork shadows upstream depending on install order, and two people
would build different demos from the same brief.
MIT retained; SMEtools copyright kept, Callista added for modifications.
Fork point and divergence recorded in UPSTREAM.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Public skill for Claude Code. Mines a discovery call, researches native-vs-custom,
stands up a working Odoo demo over XML-RPC (modules + data + tested hero features),
and generates run-of-show, one-pager, and a 1-page demo script.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SBytQq5dcASi4ETm7n6THb
