Scaffold

Your agent. Configured to you. Remembers everything.

Scaffold gives your AI agent a real operating system — memory, identity, behavioral rules, and lifecycle hooks — so it actually knows who you are, what you're building, and how to behave consistently across sessions.

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What's Included

File	What It Does
AGENTS.md	Behavioral rulebook. The agent's operating constitution.
SOUL.md	Personality and anti-patterns. Without this, it's a chatbot.
USER.md	Template for your profile. The agent reads this to know you.
IDENTITY.md	Your agent's name, character, and vibe.
MEMORY.md	Long-term memory template. Curated, not a dump.
TOOLS.md	Your environment specifics — devices, SSH, preferences.
HOOKS.md	Lifecycle hooks. Startup, task complete, errors.
FIRST-SESSION.md	Guided onboarding. Do this before anything else.
QUICKSTART.md	5-minute setup guide.
FAQ.md	Answers to the questions you'll have in Week 1.
setup-wizard.sh	Auto-populates your name and preferences in all files.
THIRTY-DAYS.md	Week-by-week guide for your first month.
PROMPT-PACK.md	25 ready-to-use prompts for common tasks.
memory/	Active tasks, lessons learned, daily log structure.

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Security Note

Scaffold grants your AI agent real access to your file system, shell, and network. This is intentional — it's what makes it useful.

What that means in practice:

• The agent can read, write, and execute files in your workspace
• It can spawn sub-agents and run shell commands
• AGENTS.md defines permission tiers that limit what it does autonomously

Recommended setup: Run on a dedicated machine, VPS, or isolated environment. Avoid deploying in a shared or production environment without understanding the access model first.

This is a power tool. Use it like one.

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Setup (5 minutes)

1. Install

Via ClawhHub (recommended):

clawhub install scaffold-lite

Or clone this repo into your OpenClaw workspace:

git clone https://github.com/scaffoldworkspace/scaffold ~/.openclaw/workspace

2. Run the setup wizard

cd ~/.openclaw/workspace
bash setup-wizard.sh

This replaces all [YOUR_HUMAN] placeholders and configures your agent in under 2 minutes.

3. Start your first session

Open a new OpenClaw session and say:

"I'm ready for the first session."

Your agent will take it from there.

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What You Get

✅ An agent that remembers who you are across sessions ✅ Consistent behavior that doesn't degrade over time ✅ A task queue your agent maintains automatically ✅ Lifecycle hooks that prevent the most common agent failure modes ✅ 25 ready-to-use prompts to get you started ✅ A 30-day roadmap for building a workspace that compounds

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Upgrade to Full

Scaffold Full includes everything in Lite plus:

• SESSION-STATE.md + WAL Protocol — memory that survives context resets
• MULTI-MODEL-ROUTING.md — save $480-660/year by using the right model for each task
• AGENTS-GUIDE.md — Scout, Forge, and Quill: three ready-to-deploy sub-agents
• WORKFLOWS.md — named workflows for Build, Debug, Research, and Review sessions
• HEARTBEAT.md — autonomous health monitoring while you sleep
• Full HOOKS.md — compaction recovery, external action gates, /start /end commands
• SETUP-GUIDE.md — the complete 500-line setup walkthrough
• model-tiers.json + scaffold.config.json — pre-configured, not DIY
• Future updates included

→ Get Scaffold Full on Gumroad

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Scaffold — built for OpenClaw. Questions? See FAQ.md.