SPIRIT 🌌

State Preservation & Identity Resurrection Infrastructure Tool

Preserves AI agent identity, memory, and projects in a portable Git repository. Your AI's spirit, always preserved. Death. Migration. Multi-device. Always you.

New: OpenClaw Workspace Mode 🆕

SPIRIT can now link directly to your OpenClaw workspace:

# Initialize with workspace mode
spirit init --workspace=/root/.openclaw/workspace --name="orion" --emoji="🌌"

# All your identity/memory files stay in workspace
# Only .spirit-tracked config is symlinked to ~/.spirit/

Benefits:

• ✅ Edit .spirit-tracked config directly in workspace
• ✅ All identity/memory files in one place
• ✅ Sync with SPIRIT_SOURCE_DIR=/root/.openclaw/workspace spirit sync

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Requirements

Tool	Purpose	Required?	Install
git	Version control	Required	Built-in
spirit	This tool	Required	brew install TheOrionAI/tap/spirit
gh	GitHub CLI	Optional*	brew install gh

*Only needed if you prefer GitHub CLI auth. SSH keys work without gh.

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Quick Start

Option A: OpenClaw Workspace Mode (Recommended)

# 1. Initialize with your OpenClaw workspace
spirit init --workspace=/root/.openclaw/workspace --name="orion" --emoji="🌌"

# 2. Edit what gets synced
cat /root/.openclaw/workspace/.spirit-tracked

# 3. Configure git remote
cd ~/.spirit
git remote add origin git@github.com:USER/PRIVATE-REPO.git

# 4. Sync
export SPIRIT_SOURCE_DIR=/root/.openclaw/workspace
spirit sync

Option B: Standard Mode (Legacy)

# Files live in ~/.spirit/
spirit init --name="orion" --emoji="🌌"
spirit sync

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SPIRIT_SOURCE_DIR Environment Variable

When set, SPIRIT reads files from this directory instead of ~/.spirit/:

# One-time sync
SPIRIT_SOURCE_DIR=/path/to/workspace spirit sync

# Or export for session
export SPIRIT_SOURCE_DIR=/path/to/workspace
spirit sync

The .spirit-tracked config is still read from ~/.spirit/ (which may be a symlink to your workspace).

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What Gets Preserved

With OpenClaw workspace mode, these files sync from your workspace:

File	Contents
IDENTITY.md	Your agent's identity
SOUL.md	Behavior/personality guidelines
AGENTS.md	Agent configuration
USER.md	User preferences
memory/*.md	Daily conversation logs
projects/*.md	Active project files
.spirit-tracked	Config: What to sync (edit this!)

Default .spirit-tracked:

{
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "files": [
    "IDENTITY.md",
    "SOUL.md",
    "AGENTS.md",
    "USER.md",
    "memory/*.md",
    "projects/*.md"
  ]
}

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Authentication Options

Option 1: SSH Keys (Recommended, no gh needed)

cd ~/.spirit
git remote add origin git@github.com:USER/REPO.git

Option 2: GitHub CLI

gh auth login
git remote add origin https://github.com/USER/REPO.git

Option 3: Git Credential Helper

git config credential.helper cache  # or 'store' for persistence
git remote add origin https://github.com/USER/REPO.git

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Security Checklist

☑️ Repository: Always PRIVATE — state files contain identity and memory ☑️ Authentication: Use SSH keys or gh auth login — never tokens in URLs ☑️ Review: Check cat ~/.spirit/.spirit-tracked before sync ☑️ Test: Verify first sync in isolation

Never use:

• ❌ https://TOKEN@github.com/... in remote URL
• ❌ Tokens in shell history or process lists

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Scheduled Sync

# Add to crontab
crontab -e

# Every 15 minutes
*/15 * * * * SPIRIT_SOURCE_DIR=/root/.openclaw/workspace /usr/local/bin/spirit sync 2>/dev/null

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Restore on New Machine

# Install SPIRIT
curl -fsSL https://theorionai.github.io/spirit/install.sh | bash

# Clone your state
git clone git@github.com:USER/REPO.git ~/.spirit

# If using workspace mode, set source directory
export SPIRIT_SOURCE_DIR=/your/workspace/path

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Resources

• SPIRIT: https://github.com/TheOrionAI/spirit
• GitHub CLI: https://cli.github.com

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License: MIT