zam-core 0.8.0 → 0.9.1

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- ## ZAM CLI Tool
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- All knowledge management is done through the `zam` CLI:
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+ ## Agent Transport (MCP)
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+ Always prefer the `zam` MCP tools when available. If the server is not configured or not detected, tell the user once to run:
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  ```bash
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- # First-time setup (only needed once)
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- zam init
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- # Token management
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- zam token register --slug <slug> --concept "<one sentence>" --domain <d> --bloom <1-5> [--question "<concept-free recall question>"] [--source-link <link>]
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- zam token find --query "<keywords>"
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- zam token list [--domain <d>]
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- zam token prereq --token <child> --requires <parent>
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- zam token deprecate --slug <slug> # mark outdated knowledge
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- # Card & review management
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- zam card due --user <username>
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- zam card update --user <username> --token <slug> --rating <1-4>
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- zam card block --user <username> --token <slug>
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- zam card unblock --user <username>
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- # Sessions
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- zam session start --user <username> --task "<description>" [--context shell|ui|reallife]
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- zam session log --session <id> --token <slug> --done-by <user|agent> [--rating <n>]
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- zam session end --session <id> [--synthesize] [--patterns <json-file>]
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- # Stats
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- zam stats --user <username>
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- # Agent skills (task recipes)
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- zam skill list
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- zam skill show --slug <slug>
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- zam skill add --slug <slug> --description "<text>" --steps '<json>' [--tokens <slugs>]
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- # User settings
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- zam settings show # display all settings
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- zam settings get --key <key> # get a single setting
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- zam settings set --key <key> --value <value> # set a setting
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- zam settings delete --key <key> # delete a setting
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- # Shell monitoring (observation mode)
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- zam monitor open --session <id> [--dir <path>] # open a monitored terminal window
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- zam monitor start --session <id> [--shell zsh|bash|pwsh] # output hook code (eval/Invoke-Expression)
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- zam monitor stop --session <id> # output unhook code (eval/Invoke-Expression)
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- zam monitor status --session <id> # check monitoring stats
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- # Bridge (machine-readable JSON protocol)
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- zam bridge check-due --user <username>
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- zam bridge get-review --user <username>
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- zam bridge submit --user <username> --card-id <id> --rating <1-4>
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- zam bridge get-skill --slug <slug>
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- zam bridge get-monitor --session <id> # read monitor log as JSON
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- echo '{"patterns":[...]}' | zam bridge analyze-monitor --session <id> # auto-rate from log
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+ zam agent connect <harness>
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+ (Replace `<harness>` with your agent name: `claude-code`, `antigravity`, `codex`, or `opencode`). This registers the `zam` MCP server configuration.
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+ ### Available MCP Tools
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+ | `zam_status` | Retrieve database connection target, active user, stats, and due review queue size. |
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+ | `zam_get_reviews` | Retrieve a batch of due cards, optionally filtering by domain or context and resolving code context. |
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+ | `zam_session_start` | Start an active learning session with a task description. |
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+ | `zam_session_end` | Complete an active session and retrieve the final summary. |
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+ | `zam_find_tokens` | Search existing knowledge tokens using semantic and lexical queries. |
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+ | `zam_add_token` | Register a new knowledge token with a slug, concept definition, Bloom level, and prompt question. |
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+ | `zam_link_prereq` | Add a prerequisite link between a parent token and a child token. |
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+ | `zam_submit_review` | Submit a card self-rating, advance its FSRS state, and log it to the session steps. |
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+ | `zam_review_action` | Apply review actions (rate, skip, edit/deprecate/delete tokens or cards) with optional confirmation. |
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+ | `zam_suggest_foundations` | Suggest existing prerequisite tokens for a newly failed or registered token. |
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+ | `zam_monitor` | Read or analyze shell-monitor evidence for a session. |
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  - **domain** — e.g. `python`, `azure`, `kubernetes`, `git`
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  - **bloom_level** — 1=remember a fact, 2=understand a concept, 3=apply in context, 4=analyze trade-offs, 5=synthesize novel solutions
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- Prerequisites: "to understand A, you must first know B." Register edges with `zam token prereq`.
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+ Prerequisites: "to understand A, you must first know B." Register edges via `zam_link_prereq`.
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  ## Session Protocol
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  ### STEP 1 — Start session & check status
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- ```bash
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- zam card unblock --user <username> --quiet
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- zam stats --user <username>
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- Show stats as a brief friendly greeting. Mention how many tokens are due, how many are blocked.
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- For **review/conceptual** sessions, use `--summary` to avoid spoiling answers:
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- ```bash
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- zam card due --user <username> --summary
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- ```
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- For **executable/task** sessions, the full listing is fine since the agent needs to plan. Also query ZAM for tokens relevant to the current task to weave them into the session:
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- ```bash
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- echo '{"context":"<1-2 sentence description of the current task>"}' | zam bridge relevant-tokens --user <username>
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- ```
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- If relevant tokens are returned, weave them into the planning session (e.g. "We will be working on task T; you already know X, which applies here").
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+ Call `zam_status` to fetch connection target, current user, stats, and due review queue size. Show stats as a brief friendly greeting.
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+ For **review/conceptual** sessions, query due reviews without resolving:
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+ Call `zam_get_reviews` (with `includeQuestions: true`, `noResolve: true`, and `noDynamicQuestion: true`). Keep the returned question hidden until you ask it.
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+ For **executable/task** sessions, also query for tokens relevant to the current task to weave them into the session planning:
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+ Call `zam_find_tokens` (with the task description context). If relevant tokens are returned, weave them into the planning session (e.g. "We will be working on task T; you already know X, which applies here").
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  Classify session type:
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  - **Executable** — real commands, code, or file edits (e.g. "set up Homebrew", "commit this change")
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- - **Conceptual** — pure review with no concrete output (e.g. `/zam repeat`)
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+ - **Conceptual** — pure review with no concrete output (e.g. `/zam repeat` or `/learn`)
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  ### STEP 2 — Generate the knowledge plan
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  Decompose into a dependency-ordered list of knowledge tokens.
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  **Deduplication before registering:**
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- ```bash
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- zam token find --query "<keywords>"
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- ```
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- Only register genuinely new concepts. Reuse existing slugs where the concept matches. Note that `zam token find` matches paraphrases semantically.
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+ Call `zam_find_tokens` first. Only register genuinely new concepts. Reuse existing slugs where the concept matches.
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  After deduplication and before registering a new token, check for existing semantically related tokens that could be prerequisites ("foundations"):
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- ```bash
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- echo '{"concept":"<concept>","question":"<question>","domain":"<domain>"}' | zam bridge suggest-foundations
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- ```
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- Present non-flagged suggestions to the user ("Related existing concept X — link it as a foundation?"); on approval link via the existing prereq path after registering.
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+ Call `zam_suggest_foundations` (with concept, question, and domain). Present non-flagged suggestions to the user ("Related existing concept X — link it as a foundation?"); on approval, link via `zam_link_prereq`.
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  **Register tokens and prerequisites:**
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- As the frontier model, YOU author both the concept and the recall question. The
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- local LLM is reserved for review time, where it rephrases the question live so
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- the learner never memorizes a fixed input->output pair. Pass a clear,
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- concept-free `--question` so the offline fallback stays high quality:
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- ```bash
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- zam token register --slug <slug> --concept "<one sentence>" --domain <d> --bloom <1-5> --question "<concept-free recall question>" [--source-link <link>]
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- ```
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+ As the frontier model, YOU author both the concept and the recall question. Pass a clear, concept-free prompt question so the offline fallback stays high quality.
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+ Call `zam_add_token` to register a new token.
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+ Call `zam_link_prereq` to link any parent prerequisites.
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- Read `/tmp/zam-review.json` with the Read tool (not cat) to load card data silently. This gives you all cardIds, slugs, concepts, domains, and bloom levels for the session. **Do not call `bridge get-review` per card** — iterate through the cards from this data.
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- > whole review off to the standalone console harness instead of probing card by
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- > > "Let's do your reviews in the dedicated console — run `zam learn` and rate
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- > > yourself. I'll wait."
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+ > **Spoiler-free console option:** For pure conceptual recall, you can hand the whole review off to the standalone console harness instead of probing card by card here:
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+ > "Let's do your reviews in the dedicated console — run `zam learn` and rate yourself. I'll wait."
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- > `zam learn` shows a concept-free cue, captures the answer, and only then
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- > reveals the stored answer (concept + context + resolved `source_link`) before a
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- > single 1–4 self-rating — all in-process. This sidesteps agent-CLI autocomplete
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- > probing below when you want to drive the discussion yourself or add depth a
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- > stored answer can't (that richer mode will later be backed by an LLM).
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- If set to `terminal`, default to Approach B. If set to `inline` or not set, ask the user which they prefer on first use and save it:
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- **Approach A — Inline (inside Claude Code):** User runs commands with the `!` prefix (e.g. `! docker build .`). The agent sees command + output in the conversation. Simple, but no timing data.
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- **Approach B — Shell monitor (separate terminal):** The preferred approach for real tasks. The agent opens a monitored terminal automatically:
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-
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  ## Three Symbiosis Modes
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- | **Autonomy** | User has high retention | Agent handles routine. Periodic practice tasks keep skills alive. |
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+ - **Shadowing**: User is learning. Agent plans, user executes, agent observes/rates.
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+ - **Co-Pilot**: User has basic competence. Agent and user alternate.
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- - Agent execution (`done-by agent`) does NOT advance FSRS state — only user-rated recalls do
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- - Observation ratings (from watching the user work) DO count — they are user actions
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- - Never show card slugs or concept text to the user before asking a review question — they spoil the answer. Use `--summary` for due listings during review sessions.
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+ - Rating scale is 1-4
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+ - Agent execution (`done-by agent`) does NOT advance FSRS state
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+ - Observation ratings DO count
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+ - Prefer observation over verbal probing
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+ - Never show card slugs or concept text to the user before asking a review question
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+ ---
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+ ## Fallback: Bridge CLI
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+ If the MCP transport is unavailable, execute the corresponding `zam` bridge CLI commands:
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+ | Action / Tool | Fallback Command |
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+ | Get Status / Stats | `zam bridge check-due --user <id>` |
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+ | Check Due reviews | `zam bridge check-due --user <id>` |
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+ | Get Reviews Batch | `zam bridge get-reviews --user <id> --include-questions --no-resolve --no-dynamic-question` |
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+ | Get Single Review | `zam bridge get-review --user <id>` |
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+ | Start Session | `zam bridge start-session --user <id> --task "<task>"` |
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+ | Session Open | `zam bridge session-open --user <id> --task "<task>"` |
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+ | End Session | `zam bridge end-session --session <id>` |
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+ | Find Tokens | `zam bridge relevant-tokens` (via stdin JSON) |
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+ | Register Token | `zam bridge add-token --user <id>` (via stdin JSON) |
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+ | Link Prereq | `zam token prereq --token <child> --requires <parent>` |
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+ | Submit Review | `zam bridge submit --card-id <id> --rating <r> [--session <id>] [--done-by user\|agent]` |
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+ | Review Action | `zam bridge review-action --card-id <id> --action <a>` |
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+ | Suggest Foundations | `zam bridge suggest-foundations` (via stdin JSON) |
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+ | Read Monitor | `zam bridge get-monitor --session <id>` |
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+ | Analyze Monitor | `zam bridge analyze-monitor --session <id>` (via stdin JSON) |
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+ *Note: For the JSON stdin inputs, ensure JSON payloads are piped properly.*
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  - **Core** ([`zam-os/zam`](https://github.com/zam-os/zam)) — The AI-agnostic learning kernel, CLI, bridge protocol, and system beliefs. Shared by everyone.
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  - **Personal** (fork of [`zam-os/zam-personal`](templates/personal/)) — Your beliefs, your goals, your identity. You fork it, you own it.
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  Get started: `zam whoami --set <your-id>`
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  ---
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+ ## 🤖 Agent & MCP Integration
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+ ZAM integrates directly with your coding agents (such as Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, or OpenCode) via the **Model Context Protocol (MCP)**. This lets your agent drive ZAM sessions automatically using tool calls.
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+
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+ To connect your agent harness:
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+ ```bash
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+ # Connect to your agent client (claude-code, antigravity, codex, or opencode)
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+ zam agent connect claude-code
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+ ```
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+ This writes the necessary MCP server config. Your harness may still ask you to approve the server or its tools. You can also print the config changes:
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+ ```bash
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+ zam agent connect claude-code --print
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+ ```
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+
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+ Once connected, your agent will use MCP tools (`zam_status`, `zam_get_reviews`, `zam_session_start`, etc.) with the bridge CLI as a fallback.
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81
+ ---
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+
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  ## 🧹 Review maintenance
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84
 
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85
  Review sessions are not limited to `1`-`4` recall ratings anymore. When a card is wrong, obsolete, or unwanted, the review flow can now: