Agent skill · wshobson
superself
Use when a project keeps its state in Superself (a `<!-- superself:begin` block in AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md, or `self setup` resolves the directory to a registered project): read `self context` at session start, attach work to a work unit, report with evidence, and record confirmed decisions so the next session picks up where this one left off.
What it needs
About 3k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Superself Superself is an Apache-2.0 CLI (npm install -g superself@0.6.1, Node 22.12+) that version-controls a project's state — goals, decisions, work units, reports — as an append-only event log in a git repository separate from the code. The state is derived on demand, so nothing in it is hand-maintained. This skill tells an agent how to read and write that state through the self CLI. It is maintained by the Superself authors: https://github.com/fxylabs/superself When this skill applies The project's AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md contains a block between <!-- superself:begin and <!-- superself:end -->, or self setup prints the workspace, project, and store this directory resolves to. Skip the skill when self --version fails: the project does not use Superself, and nothing below should be invented by hand. This skill is written against superself@0.6.1; a different major or minor version may have moved a verb or flag, so check self <command> --help before relying on one. Session start 1. Run self context and treat its output as current truth: the goal, active decisions and conventions, open work, recent reports. It is folded from the log, never written by hand. 2. Something missing from context was placed out of the rendered set on purpose; self search <query> finds live records context left out, and self work show <id> prints one unit's full brief and report history. While working Substantive work attaches to a work unit. Create one with self work add "<required outcome>" — the outcome is what must become true, not the task — then self work start <id>. start reads the brief and records that this session picked the unit up; if another session holds it, the CLI says who and since when and does not refuse. Judge and proceed. After committing, report progress: self report <id> "<what happened>". The current HEAD commit is attached as evidence automatically; --evidence <commit note> attaches something else, --file <path> attaches a longer brief. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills wshobson/superself