Local quickstart

In local mode the graph lives entirely on your machine, as a plain git repository of markdown files. This quickstart takes about two minutes and assumes you have installed the CLI.

1. Create the graph home

spor init

This creates the graph home — a nodes/ directory, a git repository to version it, and a .gitignore for machine-local state. The default location is ~/.spor; set SPOR_HOME to put it somewhere else. spor init is idempotent: re-running it reports an existing graph and never clobbers one.

2. Create your person node

spor person create

This writes a type: person node seeded from your git identity (git config user.name / user.email). It is how the queue and briefings know which items are yours. Override the seeded values if they are wrong:

spor person create 'Priya Nair' --email priya@example.com

Like init, it is idempotent — a re-run that finds a node already bound to your git identity reports it and exits 0.

3. Record your first node

spor add captures a node from a couple of sentences of prose. In local mode it writes a well-formed, validated node file, so you never hand-author frontmatter:

spor add "The export API returns 429 without a Retry-After header, so \
clients cannot back off correctly. Fix before the beta." --type issue

The default type is task; --type, --title, and --id override the defaults. The project slug is inferred from the current directory, or set it with --project.

4. Read the queue

spor next

spor next shows the ranked decision queue — open work ordered by graph signals such as what each item blocks and how its neighborhood has been moving. Your new issue appears here. --limit N changes the page size and --type task,issue filters by node type.

5. Compile a briefing

spor compile --query "export api rate limiting"

This compiles the neighborhood of nodes relevant to a free-text query — the same operation that produces the automatic session-start briefing. Add --digest for a compact, prompt-sized form, or use --root <id> to compile around one specific node.

Where the graph lives

Everything is under $SPOR_HOME (default ~/.spor): one markdown file per node in nodes/, versioned by git. git -C ~/.spor log shows the history of your project memory, and diffs, branches, and backups work the way they do in any git repository. Because the graph lives outside your code repositories, context recorded on a branch survives even if the branch never merges.

Next

Run spor enable in a repository you work in, so the session hooks brief your coding agent from this graph automatically. When a team wants to share one live graph, move to the hosted quickstart.