CoworkOS — AI skill for Claude Code

CoworkOS

A minimal, installable framework for running an AI agent as a persistent, structured assistant across every area of your life or work.

Instead of one long system prompt, CoworkOS gives your AI tool a small set of markdown files that work together: a routing protocol that sends each task to the right context, a memory system that persists across sessions, and one governance rule that keeps every fact and every instruction in exactly one place. It was designed and tested against Claude Cowork, but the files themselves are plain markdown, not anything Claude-specific, so it works with other AI tools too. It ships with a worked example so you can see the pattern filled in, not just described.

What this is

• CLAUDE.md, MEMORY.md, ARCHIVE.md - the three root files. The constitution, the notepad, and the historical record.
• 00_Reference/ - the mechanics behind the rules in CLAUDE.md, loaded on demand rather than every session.
• 00_Resources/ - supporting material: the workstation setup guide, a starter voice-principles file, notes on using other AI tools, and the optional GitHub sync guide.
• 00_Skills/ - a register of the skills your AI tool's account actually has, and a recovery copy of the ones you build yourself. See "Skills live on your account, not in this folder" below.
• Example Workstation/ - a filled-in sample so you can see what a real workstation looks like, not just read a description of one. Rename or delete it once the pattern clicks.
• .gitignore and .githooks/pre-commit - optional, if you put this workspace under version control. See "Protecting what goes in here" below.

A "workstation" is a folder for one area of life or work: a job, a side project, health, finances, relationships, anything that deserves its own context. Each one gets its own `CLAUDE.md` and `MEMORY.md`, scoped to that domain, so the root files never have to hold everything at once. `CLAUDE.md` ships a Starter Workstations list of 15 common life ar