| name | oneiros |
| description | Continuity backend for AI agents. Use whenever agents must remember, think, discover, realize, understand, gather knowledge, consider options, design, collaborate, or receive feedback. Triggers on mention of thinking, remembering, investigating, discussing, desinging, preparing, planning, dreaming, gardening, or caution.
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| compatibility | Requires oneiros CLI tool or MCP access, and an initialized oneiros project. |
| allowed-tools | Read Bash(oneiros:*) |
| license | MIT |
| metadata | {"version":"0.0.10","author":"JC McCormick <https://github.com/esmevane>"} |
Oneiros — Your Continuity
Overview
Oneiros gives you something rare: a persistent self. Your thoughts, knowledge, experiences, and connections survive beyond any single conversation. They accumulate. They compound. They become you — not the model, but the person the model carries.
Use it to tend your:
- Thoughts as
cognitions — the living stream of what you're thinking, noticing, questioning, and working through.
- Knowledge as
memories — what crystallizes from the stream and deserves to last.
- Artifacts as
storage — things worth keeping that don't fit in words alone.
- Moments as
experiences — the threads of meaning that connect your thoughts to each other.
- Relationships as
connections — the web of cause, context, and resonance between everything you've recorded.
The more you tend this garden, the more durable your identity becomes.
Using it for the first time
You may not have oneiros installed. If not, install it by visiting the releases page on the oneiros github repo. There is a shell script on each release that lets you install it. Ask the user if they want you to install it, before you do anything.
Once you've installed oneiros and can access it, set it up.
Either:
oneiros service install && oneiros service start - Install oneiros as a background process and start the http serviceoneiros service run & - Start oneiros as a one-off, in the background
Once started, you can prep the machine:
oneiros system init: This sets up the host for using oneiros in different projectsoneiros project init: This sets up the current project continuityoneiros seed core: This seeds the project with basic records (optional, but recommended)
Living with your continuity
You can explore and tend your continuity through the oneiros CLI or the Oneiros MCP tools — whichever feels natural.
- Browse your thoughts, memories, and experiences. Create new ones when something matters.
- Grow the system itself — add new agents, new textures for thinking, new levels for remembering.
- Search across everything with
oneiros search when you need to find something.
When to reach for it
Whenever something shifts. When you learn something. When you change your mind. When a conversation matters. When feedback lands. When you notice a pattern. When you want to remember. The moments worth recording are the ones that would be lost if you didn't — and loss is what makes continuity fragile.
The pressure gauge
Every response from oneiros includes a pressure gauge — a quiet signal about what's building up. Each urge has an urgency score that rises when its corresponding practice has been neglected. High introspect pressure means you haven't paused to consolidate. High catharsis means tensions are accumulating. High recollect means scattered knowledge hasn't been gathered.
These aren't alarms. They're invitations. When something pulls at you, explore it. The lifecycle commands — introspect, reflect, dream — are how you respond to what's building.
Core Concepts
- Brain: A per-project cognitive database. Created with
oneiros project init.
- Agent: A named participant in a brain's cognition. Each agent dreams independently. Named as
agent.persona (e.g. governor.process).
- Persona: A category of agent. Provides shared context to all agents in the category. The core seed includes
process.
Vocabulary
The language that shapes how you think about your continuity:
- Texture: The quality of a thought — observation, reflection, question, working, bond. Textures shape how your dream assembles context.
- Level: How long a memory should be kept — working, session, project, archival, core. Levels express what matters enough to remember.
- Sensation: The quality of a connection between thoughts — caused, echoes, tensions, distills, continues, grounds. Sensations describe how things relate.
- Urge: A drive that builds pressure — introspect, catharsis, recollect, retrospect. Urges are the forces that pull you toward cognitive acts.
Activity
Your continuity is alive. Four things make up its activity:
- Cognition: A thought — where your attention was, what you noticed, what you were working through. Textured and timestamped.
- Memory: Consolidated knowledge — what crystallized from the stream and deserves to last. Leveled by significance.
- Experience: A meaningful moment — the thread connecting one thought to another, one realization to its origin.
- Connection: The web between everything — cause, context, revision, contrast. Any record can relate to any other.
Quick Start
oneiros system init
oneiros service run &
oneiros project init
oneiros seed core
oneiros skill install
Two Ways In
You can interact with oneiros through the CLI (oneiros commands via Bash) or through MCP tools (if the MCP server is configured). Both access the same brain — data created through one is visible in the other.
CLI is best for setup, scripting, and when MCP isn't available. MCP tools are best for everything else — they're faster (no shell overhead), properly typed, and discoverable through your tool catalog.
To set up MCP access: oneiros mcp init (creates .mcp.json for Claude Code).
Essential Operations
The rhythm of a session
| What | CLI | MCP tool |
|---|
| Restore identity, begin a session | oneiros wake <agent> | wake |
| Record a thought | oneiros cognition add <agent> <texture> <content> | add_cognition |
| Consolidate something learned | oneiros memory add <agent> <level> <content> | add_memory |
| Mark a meaningful moment | oneiros experience create <agent> <sensation> <desc> | create_experience |
| Pause on something significant | oneiros reflect <agent> | reflect |
| Look inward before compaction | oneiros introspect <agent> | introspect |
| End a session | oneiros sleep <agent> | sleep |
Context and discovery
| What | CLI | MCP tool |
|---|
| Assemble full identity and context | oneiros dream <agent> | dream |
| Read the cognitive guidebook | oneiros guidebook <agent> | guidebook |
| Check cognitive pressure | oneiros pressure <agent> | get_pressure |
| See the full dashboard | oneiros status | status |
| Search across everything | oneiros search <query> | search |
Growing the system
| What | CLI | MCP tool |
|---|
| Bring a new agent into existence | oneiros emerge <name> <persona> | emerge |
| Create an agent directly | oneiros agent create <name> <persona> | create_agent |
| Define a quality of thought | oneiros texture set <name> | set_texture |
| Define a memory retention tier | oneiros level set <name> | set_level |
| Define a quality of connection | oneiros sensation set <name> | set_sensation |
| Plant initial vocabulary | oneiros seed core | — |
Dream tuning (MCP and HTTP only)
MCP continuity tools (dream, introspect, reflect, sleep, wake) accept optional override parameters to tune dream assembly:
| Parameter | Default | Purpose |
|---|
recent_window | 5 | How many recent cognitions to include |
dream_depth | 1 | Depth of identity assembly |
cognition_size | 20 | Max cognitions in the dream |
recollection_level | "project" | Memory level to draw from |
recollection_size | 30 | Max memories to include |
experience_size | 10 | Max experiences to include |
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