Agent skill · thedotmack
ccs-align
Run the CCS Align seat's hourly breathing cycle — prove the local claude-mem worker is healthy, pull needle observations through search → timeline → get_observations, land them in a seat-owned middle cache via atomic grab → append → filter exclude-marks → replace, manage exclude marks, and walk house → project → seat rules to detect conflicts (SHADOW_HOUSE, DENY_ALLOW, DRIFT, CLOCK_HEADER) with an append-only rules-report.md. Use when asked to run CCS Align, breathe the alignment seat, refresh the middle cache, exclude or restore an observation, walk rules, check rules conflicts, or check the Worker Watch board.
What it needs
About 11k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
CCS Align — Worker Watch seat (Phases 0–2 shipped; Phase 3 = verify / sign-off) CCS Align is a standing seat, not a bird's-eye planner. Its one job, once an hour: talk to the local claude-mem worker, pull recent needle observations through the existing three-layer disclosure ladder, and land them in a seat-owned middle cache using grab → append → replace. This skill implements the Phase 0 breathing slice, Phase 1 exclude marks, and Phase 2 rules alignment from the plan of record, plans/2026-09-09-ccs-align.md. Phases 0–2 are shipped and merged (#3934, #3935, #3936); Phase 3 is verify / sign-off (this loop) — no new product surface. It is not a context compiler, not Focus/mouth, and not Grok Memory Phase 2. When you speak to the human, address them as Alex. What is implemented (Phases 0–2 shipped) Phase 0 — Breathing slice (#3934): health check → search → timeline → getobservations → append records to ~/.claude-mem/ccs-align/<viewerId>/middle.jsonl (atomic, deduped). Phase 1 — Exclude marks (#3935): mark observations (and linked tool-use ids) as excluded from the compiled middle cache. "Purge" means the compiled middle.jsonl no longer contains the record — the diary / SQLite stay authoritative. Unmarking + rebuild restores the observation. DELETE /api/observation/:id is forbidden. Phase 2 — Rules alignment (#3936): walk house → project → seat layers, detect conflicts (SHADOWHOUSE, DENYALLOW, DRIFT, CLOCKHEADER), emit an append-only rules-report.md. Optionally dry-run/apply SHADOWHOUSE leaf patches when CLAUDEMEMCCSALIGNPATCHSHADOWS=true. Runs every 6th hour of the hourly Worker Watch cycle (D4). This is a checklist, not a parser — no .cas compiler. Phase 3 — Verify / sign-off (this loop): re-run the regression tests and anti-pattern greps, prove the boundary (a scripted cycle dedupes, an exclude drops from the middle cache but not the diary, the rules report is produced or a MISS is recorded), and keep the skill + plan honest about what this seat is not. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills thedotmack/ccs-align