session-management

SkillAI & models

Lets your agent start, hand off, and restore AI agent sessions with a persistent identity.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the session-management skill

About this capability

Manage agent sessions including initialization, handoffs, revival (seance), and persistent identity for Polecats and Crew agents.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/methodologies/gastown/skills/session-management/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

  • Handing off work between agents
  • Reviving a dead or stuck agent session
  • Managing Polecat identity persistence across sessions

Session Operations

  1. Init: Start new session with role and hook setup
  2. Attach: Connect agent to Mayor for coordination
  3. Handoff: Transfer work between agents with context
  4. Seance: Revive a dead agent's session state
  5. Resume: Continue from last checkpoint

Agent Session Types

  • Crew: Long-lived sessions, full state persistence
  • Polecat: Ephemeral sessions, persistent identity, state via hooks
  • Dog: Infrastructure sessions, minimal state

Key Commands

  • gt mayor attach - Attach to Mayor coordination
  • gt handoff - Hand off work to another agent
  • gt seance - Revive dead session
  • gt prime - Prime agent with context

Tool Use

Used within agent coordination and patrol monitoring processes.

Signals

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skill
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session-management
Source
github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter