compass-skills

compass-skills is a set of Markdown skills that help an AI coding agent manage long, multi-session work. It gets the agent to clarify the task, keep a repo-local memory of goals as a kind of task tree, hand off context cleanly between sessions, and follow your collaboration preferences. Everything stays in local plaintext, nothing is uploaded. MIT, free.

There is nothing to run and no remote piece; the state sits as plaintext in your repo. It is narrowly aimed at the problem of agents losing the thread across long projects and multiple sessions. It is also very new, a couple of weeks old and mostly one author, so the conventions may shift and longevity is unproven. Early but pointed at a real pain.

This is for developers running Claude Code or Codex on long-running projects who keep losing context between sessions and want persistent task memory. Solo or team, it is free. If your work is short and single-session, or you do not want to adopt another agent convention layer, skip it.

The catch is maturity. The idea, giving an agent durable memory and clean handoffs, is a real one, but this is an early, single-author project, so bet on the concept more than the specific implementation. If it sticks, great; if it stalls, you have not lost much.