| ---
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| license: other
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| license_name: polyform-noncommercial-1.0.0
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| license_link: https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0/
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| pretty_name: "nomad - portable AI team workspace, just files in a folder"
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| language:
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| - en
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| - zh
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| tags:
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| - agent-skill
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| - agent-skills
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| - multi-agent
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| - claude-code
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| - digital-employee
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| - agent-framework
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| - prompt-engineering
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| task_categories:
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| - text-generation
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| size_categories:
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| - n<1K
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| viewer: false
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| ---
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| > **nomad** - Build, migrate or mount a portable multi-agent workspace. Plain text, zero dependencies.
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| >
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| > **Mirrored in two places, same version everywhere:**
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| > [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/datasets/LucioLiu/nomad) (you are here) · [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/LucioLiu/nomad)
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| >
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| > **Get the files** - GitLab is the most reliable plain-git route:
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| >
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| > ```bash
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| > git clone https://gitlab.com/LucioLiu/nomad.git
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| >
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| > # or from this page
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| > hf download LucioLiu/nomad --repo-type dataset --local-dir ./nomad
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| > ```
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| >
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| > **Licence: PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0** - the `LICENSE` file in this repo is authoritative.
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| ---
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| # Nomad — Portable AI Team Workspace
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| *[中文说明](README.zh-CN.md)*
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| > No cloud service, no proprietary format, just files.
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| Your AI agent's personality and memory can live as plain text files in a folder instead of locked inside one vendor's app. Open that folder in any capable AI tool and the agent just works — same identity, same memory, no re-explaining who it is. That's the whole idea: no cloud service, no proprietary format, just files you can read, copy, back up, and move with a drag.
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| This isn't a product you install or a service you sign up for. It's a **skill** — instructions an AI agent reads once, then acts on your folder directly.
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| > **agent-modpack / nomad / relic / nuwa: which one do I want?**
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| > - **agent-modpack**: a ready-to-run AI team, today. Download and go.
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| > - **nomad** (you are here): build or migrate your *own* multi-agent workspace from scratch.
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| > - **relic**: carry *one* agent's memory and personality across tools.
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| > - **nuwa**: *generate* new agents or whole teams from a description.
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| ## What it does
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| One folder = one portable AI team workspace. Three independent paths, use whichever one you need:
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| - **Build** — start from an empty folder and stand up a new multi-agent team with portable structure from day one.
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| - **Migrate** — already have scattered prompts, a custom-instructions box, or an existing memory setup? Bring it into the skeleton without losing anything.
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| - **Mount** — team already built? Connect it to one more AI tool in minutes, no rebuild required.
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| ## Why it's different
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| - **Team-level, not another single-persona tool.** Built for multiple agents sharing one root and collaborating — not one chatbot's private memory file.
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| - **Plain text, zero dependencies.** Everything is markdown plus one JSON config file. No database, no server, no account to create.
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| - **Verified in practice across five harnesses.** Claude Code, Codex/ChatGPT Desktop, OpenCode, Copilot (VS Code), and Cursor — each one's actual file-discovery and hook behavior was checked directly, not assumed from documentation.
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| ## Quick start
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| 1. Load this skill into your AI tool of choice (however your tool takes skills or custom instructions).
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| 2. Tell it which of the three paths you want — build, migrate, or mount.
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| 3. Follow along. It will ask what it needs to know (your language, your target folder, what already exists) before writing anything — it won't touch real files without showing you the plan first.
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| ## Status
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| Read this before you rely on anything below the surface:
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| - **Docs-first.** The reference files (`team-skeleton.md`, `migration-protocol.md`, `mounting-guide.md`) are the complete, usable specification today — an AI agent reading them can build, migrate, or mount a team right now.
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| - **Node-layer scripts are now included** (`scripts/`). Hook wiring for session-start/stop/precompact plus a concurrency-safe append tool ships with this package; selftest 158/158 and verified on a real team folder (both start and close-out fired correctly); v0.5 adds a portable frontmatter-touch hook (mtime-vs-frontmatter reconciliation, works in non-git folders) and a charter-pointer segment in session-start. The md layer remains the required foundation; the node layer is optional acceleration.
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| - The node-layer close-out **hook** is now verified (session-stop fired correctly on a real team folder). What remains unverified is the **md-layer self-driven** close-out — i.e. an agent on a hookless harness saving its own memory/log purely from AGENTS.md instructions, with no hook to prompt it. Open-session self-drive has production verification; close-out self-drive is designed the same way and expected to behave the same, but hasn't had its own independent verification on record yet.
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| - **New in v0.4 — governance layers for teams that grow large.** The skeleton spec now also covers closed-set memory types + a slot-application channel (with an AI-specific "design graveyard" for rejected ideas), a file-lifecycle policy (workspace close-out, backup retention, harness-specific append-only caps), and an optional metadata/relations layer (frontmatter + `links`, bound to machine validation). All optional — the minimum viable team is unchanged.
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| - **New in v0.5 — the governance layers now ship as ready-to-use artifacts, not just spec text.** `references/governance/` carries a team-structure charter template and a metadata-conventions manual (bilingual pairs); `scripts/` gains a dependency-free four-check structure sentinel and an assembled-team variant of the log append tool (bilingual pairs). These were upstreamed from an integration pack that assembles team workspaces from this skeleton — that pack now pulls them from this repo's published HEAD instead of carrying private copies, making this repo their single source of truth.
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| ---
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| *Version 0.5 · Last updated 2026-07-23*
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