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name: agentlas-auto-activation
description: "Use when adding or auditing local runtime behavior that turns a project folder into an Agentlas-aware workspace with .agentlas memory and sitemap files."
---

# 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`.