🪴 tendr-skill 🎍

An AI agent skill for managing long-term semantic memory as structured knowledge in plain text (markdown).

🤖 🚰 ✂️ Unlock 🎋 WikiBonsai digital gardening for your AI agent.

What It Does

Teaches AI agents to use wikirefs, CAML, and semtree to build and maintain a structured knowledge graph as persistent memory. Agents learn to capture concepts, verbalize definitions, connect ideas with typed links, and organize knowledge in a semantic hierarchy. All in plain markdown.

Requires tendr-cli:

npm install -g tendr-cli

Supported Agents

• Claude Code by Anthropic
• gptme by gptmeorg
• OpenClaw by Open Claw
• pi by badlogic (badlogic)

Install

Cross-Agent (shared directory)

All supported agents also discover skills in ~/.agents/skills/:

git clone git@github.com:wikibonsai/tendr-skill.git
mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills/tendr
ln -s "$(pwd)/tendr-skill/skills/tendr/SKILL.md" ~/.agents/skills/tendr/SKILL.md

This makes the skill available to pi, gptme, and OpenClaw from a single install.

Claude Code

As a plugin (recommended):

git clone git@github.com:wikibonsai/tendr-skill.git ~/.claude/plugins/tendr-skill

As a standalone skill (user-level, available across all projects):

git clone git@github.com:wikibonsai/tendr-skill.git
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/tendr
ln -s "$(pwd)/tendr-skill/skills/tendr/SKILL.md" ~/.claude/skills/tendr/SKILL.md

As a standalone skill (project-level, available only in that project):

git clone git@github.com:wikibonsai/tendr-skill.git
mkdir -p .claude/skills/tendr
ln -s "$(pwd)/tendr-skill/skills/tendr/SKILL.md" .claude/skills/tendr/SKILL.md

Invoke with /tendr in Claude Code.

gptme

User-level:

git clone git@github.com:wikibonsai/tendr-skill.git
mkdir -p ~/.config/gptme/skills/tendr
ln -s "$(pwd)/tendr-skill/skills/tendr/SKILL.md" ~/.config/gptme/skills/tendr/SKILL.md

Workspace-level:

git clone git@github.com:wikibonsai/tendr-skill.git
mkdir -p .gptme/skills/tendr
ln -s "$(pwd)/tendr-skill/skills/tendr/SKILL.md" .gptme/skills/tendr/SKILL.md

gptme auto-loads the skill when "tendr" is mentioned in conversation.

OpenClaw

User-level:

git clone git@github.com:wikibonsai/tendr-skill.git
mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills/tendr
ln -s "$(pwd)/tendr-skill/skills/tendr/SKILL.md" ~/.openclaw/skills/tendr/SKILL.md

Workspace-level:

git clone git@github.com:wikibonsai/tendr-skill.git
mkdir -p skills/tendr
ln -s "$(pwd)/tendr-skill/skills/tendr/SKILL.md" skills/tendr/SKILL.md

Invoke with /tendr in OpenClaw.

pi

User-level:

git clone git@github.com:wikibonsai/tendr-skill.git
mkdir -p ~/.pi/agent/skills/tendr
ln -s "$(pwd)/tendr-skill/skills/tendr/SKILL.md" ~/.pi/agent/skills/tendr/SKILL.md

Project-level:

git clone git@github.com:wikibonsai/tendr-skill.git
mkdir -p .pi/skills/tendr
ln -s "$(pwd)/tendr-skill/skills/tendr/SKILL.md" .pi/skills/tendr/SKILL.md

Invoke with /skill:tendr in pi.

Repo Structure

tendr-skill/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── plugin.json         ← Claude Code plugin metadata
├── skills/
│   ├── tendr/
│   │   └── SKILL.md        ← main skill (syntax, workflow, CLI reference)
│   └── tendr-gc/
│       └── SKILL.md        ← garden consolidation sub-agent
├── hooks/
│   ├── hooks.json          ← Claude Code hooks (session start, recall, gc)
│   ├── pi-hooks.json       ← pi hook config
│   └── gptme-hooks.toml    ← gptme hook config
├── scripts/
│   ├── load-tree.sh        ← discovers garden and prints semantic tree
│   ├── recall.sh           ← fuzzy-matches prompt keywords against garden nodes
│   └── gc.sh               ← post-consolidation cleanup (doctor, tree refresh)
├── README.md               ← this file
└── LICENSE                  ← MIT

Configuration

Set TENDR_DIR to point to your garden directory:

export TENDR_DIR=/path/to/garden

If unset, the plugin auto-discovers the garden from common locations. The /tendr command also accepts a path argument: /tendr /path/to/garden.

Getting Started

Once installed, type /tendr to activate the skill in your session. On first use, the agent will set up a garden (knowledge base) with a config.toml, index/, and entries/ directory.

Clone a starter knowledge base from garden-beds to get going faster.

Links

• WikiBonsai — the project
• tendr-cli — the CLI tool
• garden-beds — starter knowledge bases
• wikirefs — [[wikilink]] spec
• caml-mkdn — : key :: value spec
• semtree — semantic tree spec