Portable Memory Core

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A meta-skill that establishes a 'One Brain' portable memory folder (.agent/). It persists context, user preferences, identity rules, and execution history across different AI harnesses (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenClaw).

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

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Portable Memory Core skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by mphinance/alpha-skills in skills/portable-memory-core/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

"Never explain yourself twice."

This skill enforces the One Brain protocol. Instead of scattering your preferences across dozens of system prompts, it centralizes them into a portable .agent/ directory that any LLM runner can hook into.

Core Directives

  1. Memory Synchronization: Upon startup, read from .agent/memory.yaml.
  2. Context Passing: Whenever the user switches contexts (e.g., from Cursor to OpenClaw), this skill ensures the new context loads the latest state from .agent/state.json.
  3. Identity Enforcement: Enforces the IDENTITY.md rules (e.g., "Caveman mode", "No em dashes", "Substack voice") universally across all generated code and text.
  4. Harness Agnostic: Works seamlessly whether the upstream harness is Claude CLI, a custom Python script, or a GUI.

Usage

When activated, you will automatically:

  • Load .agent/preferences.yaml
  • Update .agent/history.json with the current session summary.
  • Export relevant variables to the local workspace.

Signals

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