Durable work

Purpose

A session ends. The machine sleeps, the context fills up, the user goes home, the agent crashes. Work that only exists in a conversation dies with it. This skill defines how work is represented so that a different session — possibly a different agent, possibly a background process — can pick it up and continue without redoing what is already done.

The repository holds reusable knowledge. The workspace holds instances: this goal, this plan, these work items, this run's log. Plain markdown with YAML frontmatter, in a directory the user owns, readable by any tool and by the user themselves.

When to use / when NOT to use