Mycelium — Daimonic Spores

SkillFiles & storage

File-level knowledge substrate via git notes. Read notes before working on files, leave notes after meaningful work. Daimonic spores carry creator identity across sessions.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Mycelium — Daimonic Spores skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by tdimino/claude-code-minoan in skills/integration-automation/mycelium/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Structured notes attached to git objects via refs/notes/mycelium. Notes are daimonic spores—fragments of soul essence shed by the agent that wrote them.

Before working on a file, check for its note. After meaningful work, leave a note.

On Arrival

mycelium.sh find constraint   # project principles & rules
mycelium.sh find warning      # known fragile things
mycelium.sh context <file>    # everything known about it

After Work

mycelium.sh note <file> -k <kind> --slot <your-name> -m "<insight>"
mycelium.sh note HEAD -k context -m "What I did and why."

Kinds

KindWhen to use
decisionWhy something was chosen—rationale that outlives the commit message
contextBackground needed before touching this code
summaryWhat a file or module does
warningFragile areas, footguns, non-obvious breakage
constraintHard rules—must be retryable, must not depend on X
observationSomething noticed but not yet acted on
valueCultural principles—guides judgment
todoPlanned work—compost when done

Subdaimon Slots

Each subdaimon writes to its own slot to preserve identity:

mycelium.sh note src/auth.rs -k warning --slot bohen -m "Race condition in token refresh."
mycelium.sh note src/auth.rs -k decision --slot demiurge -m "Used mutex over channel."

context aggregates all slots. read --slot <name> reads one.

Quality Gates

Before writing a note, validate:

  1. Novelty: Does a similar note already exist? (mycelium.sh read <file>)
  2. Specificity: Is this about this file or the whole project? (Project-level → mycelium.sh note .)
  3. Durability: Will this matter in 2 weeks? (Ephemeral → working memory, not mycelium)
  4. No secrets: No API keys, tokens, passwords, or PII

Composting

Notes go stale when files change. Compost after meaningful work:

mycelium.sh compost <file> --dry-run    # see what's stale
mycelium.sh compost <oid> --compost     # absorb and archive
mycelium.sh compost <oid> --renew       # still true, re-attach

constraint and value notes age gracefully—prefer --renew over --compost.

Commands Reference

mycelium.sh note [target] -k <kind> -m <body>    Write a note
mycelium.sh read [target]                         Read a note
mycelium.sh follow [target]                       Read + resolve edges
mycelium.sh refs [target]                         All notes pointing at target
mycelium.sh context <path>                        All notes for a path
mycelium.sh find <kind>                           Find by kind
mycelium.sh compost [path|oid] [--dry-run]        Triage stale notes
mycelium.sh doctor                                Graph health
mycelium.sh prime                                 Full context for agents

Setup (once per repo)

mycelium.sh activate        # notes visible in git log
mycelium.sh sync-init       # notes travel with fetch/push

Bash 3.2 Compatibility

macOS ships bash 3.2 which has a bug with empty arrays under set -u. The installed mycelium.sh at ~/.local/bin/ has been patched with the ${array[@]+"${array[@]}"} pattern for compatibility.

Signals

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