Agentlas Auto-Activation

Use this skill when a local runtime should activate Agentlas project continuity for a folder.

Procedure

1. For explicit activation, call hephaestus project ensure --project <folder> from Agentlas Core.
2. For automatic activation, require a trusted writable host, an allowed root, a workspace marker, and host-side opt-in. Passive search, read-only work, and MCP requests do not imply write consent.
3. Never create project state in the user's home directory, filesystem root, or outside the host's allowed project roots.
4. Install the managed privacy .gitignore block before local memory/indexes.
5. Add missing seed files, ontology/career indexes, and the bounded code map without overwriting existing user content.
6. Inject relevant project memory into future agent prompts.
7. Ask workers to emit ## Memory Events only for durable facts.
8. Route Memory Events through Memory Tickets and Memory Curator.
9. Use sitemap/task-bias state to avoid stale or unvalidated surfaces.

Minimum Files

• .agentlas/project-soul-memory.md
• .agentlas/sitemap.json
• .agentlas/memory-map.json
• .agentlas/memory-tickets.jsonl
• .agentlas/vault-references.json
• .agentlas/skill-registry.json
• .agentlas/skill-trials.jsonl
• .agentlas/curator-decisions.jsonl
• .agentlas/activation.json
• .agentlas/code-map/project-map.json
• .agentlas/ontology-runtime.json
• .agentlas/ontology-runtime.sqlite
• .agentlas/career-graph.json
• .agentlas/career-graph.sqlite

Safety

Never store secrets, raw logs, full transcripts, cookies, private keys, service accounts, or payment material in .agentlas.

Keep MCP auto-bootstrap disabled unless the host separately opts in. Automatic receipts must not expose absolute project paths or raw filesystem errors.

If private files were already tracked before activation, report them as trackedSensitivePaths; never mutate the user's Git index automatically.

Reference

See docs/agentlas-auto-activation.md.