AI Memory Workspace Setup

Starter kit

First committed by Fryingpannn

Published in Fryingpannn/ai-memory-workspace-starter. Publisher page

21 GitHub starsUpdated 2026-07-29

What it is

A Hermes-friendly, files-first AI memory workspace that survives fresh chats.

— the description by Fryingpannn

AutoGineer overview, from the brain’s own files

ai-memory-workspace-starter provides a structured, agent-driven installation process to establish a persistent memory workspace within a user's existing file system. Designed to be platform-agnostic, it uses a set of templates and setup prompts to scaffold a workspace that survives individual chat sessions. The system focuses on creating a canonical structure including a user profile, a wiki, and project-specific directories, ensuring that AI agents can maintain context across different sessions without relying on proprietary cloud storage.

How it works

Memory model: Markdown vault

AutoGineer overview, from the brain’s own files

The system functions as a temporary setup utility. When triggered by an agent, it reads the setup instructions in the docs folder and uses the prompts in the prompts/setup folder to guide the user through a multi-stage installation. It copies missing files from the templates/workspace folder into the user's designated workspace directory, creating a standard structure of folders like projects, skills, outputs, and wiki. It also initializes a root USER.md file and a fused AGENTS.md file to serve as the primary knowledge entry points for the agent.

Folders
Folder	Role	Files
docs	docs	2
prompts	agent-instructions	9
templates	templates	18

The agent reads

The agent writes

AGENTS.md evidence: AGENTS.md

Requirements

Works with: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Kiro, OpenCode, Amp, Cline, JetBrains Junie, Devin (ex-Windsurf)

Set it up

Download the brain as a ZIP and unzip it where you keep your notes or project: https://mp-staging.autogineer.com/agent-brains/fryingpannn/ai-memory-workspace-starter/download
Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md from this folder automatically.
cd ai-memory-workspace-starter && claude
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First committed by Fryingpannn. Published in Fryingpannn/ai-memory-workspace-starter. Licence: MIT License.

Usage

AutoGineer overview, from the brain’s own files

Scaffolding a new persistent memory workspace for an existing AI agent.
Standardizing memory structures across multiple agent-enabled projects.
Integrating a portable wiki and user profile into an existing file-based development environment.

“Set up my AI memory workspace from this repository.”: The agent will initiate the setup flow, confirm the workspace location, and scaffold the necessary folders and files.
“Verify my workspace memory.”: The agent will run the acceptance test defined in the workspace to ensure the memory structure is correctly linked and accessible.

Documentation by Fryingpannn

AI Memory Workspace Setup

An agent-run installer for adding portable, files-first memory to a new or existing outer workspace.

This repository is not the user's workspace. The user's existing file-aware agent reads SETUP.md, temporarily downloads this package when needed, and installs only the missing scaffold files from templates/workspace/.

One Setup Prompt

Paste this into the agent you already use:

Set up my AI memory workspace from this repository:
https://github.com/Fryingpannn/ai-memory-workspace-starter

Start with SETUP.md. Use this repository only as temporary setup instructions and a
template source; do not turn its clone into my workspace.

The setup manager asks whether an outer workspace already exists. It uses that folder or creates one after approval. Existing projects stay in place.

What This Package Contains

SETUP.md: the only setup entrypoint.
prompts/setup/: short, ordered setup stages.
prompts/VERIFY-WORKSPACE.md: fresh-session acceptance test.
prompts/CONNECT-INNER-PROJECTS.md: optional reviewed bridge for child-project instruction files.
templates/workspace/: missing-only files for the user's outer workspace.
docs/: reference material for the setup agent and implementing user.

The temporary clone is removed after verification and the final handoff. Its Git history and remote are never copied into the user's workspace.

Setup Flow

Confirm or create the outer workspace.
Copy only missing supporting files from templates/workspace/.
Build the portable root USER.md.
Build the interlinked wiki/.
Analyze approved existing child projects read-only.
Create or review a fused canonical AGENTS.md.
Review or initialize the outer Git repository.
Prove retrieval from a fresh session.
Deliver the optional inner-project bridge prompt, then remove the temporary setup clone.

Ownership Boundaries

The portable workspace owns:

root USER.md;
the CLAUDE.md compatibility bridge;
projects/, skills/, outputs/, and wiki/.

Existing target files are preserved except for a user-confirmed replacement of AGENTS.md with its reviewed fused proposal. Git initialization, commits, remote creation, and pushes remain approval-gated.

This installer uses the file-aware agent the user already has. Installing another harness is a separate optional workflow.

docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md

Troubleshooting

The User Only Has the Public Repository Link

Read SETUP.md. Clone the setup package into an agent-created temporary directory, then use its prompts and templates/workspace/ scaffold. Do not personalize or push from that clone.

The User Does Not Have an Outer Workspace

Follow prompts/setup/01-CHOOSE-WORKSPACE.md. Ask where to create one folder, confirm the exact path, and use it as the project root for the remaining stages.

The Outer Folder Already Contains Files

That is expected. Add only missing skeleton files. Record collisions and never replace an existing file silently.

AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md Already Exists

Preserve it during scaffolding. Follow prompts/setup/06-FINALIZE-AGENTS.md to create and review AGENTS.proposed.md. Replace the old AGENTS.md only after the user confirms the complete fused file. Add a missing CLAUDE.md bridge only after review.

USER.md Already Exists

Preserve it. Follow prompts/setup/03-ONBOARD-USER.md, show only compact proposed additions based on confirmed answers, and do not create a duplicate wiki profile.

The Outer Folder Is Already a Git Repository

Use the existing repository. Do not reinitialize it, replace its remote, or create a nested memory repository.

Existing Projects Have Their Own Git Repositories

Leave their source unchanged. Follow prompts/setup/07-INITIALIZE-GIT.md and ask whether they should remain independent and ignored or become Git submodules. Never choose submodules silently.

Projects Are Outside the Outer Workspace

Finish the guided setup without them. Connecting scattered projects is an advanced manual step and is not part of the one-prompt workflow.

A Source Is Missing

Do not present an unsupported durable claim as fact. Record uncertainty, preserve provenance under wiki/raw/, and queue unresolved material in wiki/inbox.md.

A Secret Was Committed

Stop sharing or pushing, rotate the secret, and follow GitHub's current history-removal guidance. Deleting the current file does not remove the secret from Git history.

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Advantages

Ensures memory persistence across fresh agent sessions by using a file-based vault structure. evidence: README.md
Preserves existing project files by only installing missing scaffold components. evidence: README.md

Limitations

Requires an existing file-aware agent to execute the setup process. evidence: README.md
The installer repository itself is not a workspace and must be removed after setup. evidence: AGENTS.md

Security

Risk level: No risk found

This brain runs

This brain runs nothing: AutoGineer found no hooks, scripts, plugin code or MCP servers in its files.

Attribution and licence

First committed by

Fryingpannn

Publisher

Duke Pan (Community)

Source

Fryingpannn/ai-memory-workspace-starter · commit cf26138

Licence

MIT License (files served here)

ATTRIBUTION.md (written by AutoGineer)

Synced

2026-11-12

Contributors

Fryingpannn

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