# Asobi
Asobi is a persistent, project-local knowledge graph CLI for AI agents. Agents use it to keep memory, track session state, and share context across conversations — stored in a local libSQL/SQLite file, no server required.
## Features
- **Knowledge graph** — entities, append-only (capped) observations, and directed relations.
- **Truths** — durable `key→value` facts per entity for current state (`status`, `version`); status-as-truth makes a board a single `search --where status=…`.
- **Fast search** — `search` over FTS5 (porter stemming + BM25) with a substring fallback, plus `--where key=value` truth filters (the query term is optional).
- **Concurrency-safe** — WAL + `busy_timeout`, so a lead agent and dispatched sub-agents can write the same graph without lock errors.
- **Lazy reads** — `graph`/`search` return truths + counts; `show` returns the full body. Cheap to load, cheap on tokens.
- **Skills** — install reusable agent instructions from a git repo or local path.
- **Document tier** (optional, `--features documents`) — `ingest` + semantic `query` over Markdown.
## Installation
### From crates.io (recommended)
```bash
cargo install asobi
# with the optional document tier (semantic ingest + query):
cargo install asobi --features documents
```
### Prebuilt binary (cargo-binstall)
No compile — [`cargo-binstall`](https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall) pulls the binary from the GitHub release:
```bash
cargo binstall asobi
```
### From source
```bash
cargo install --git https://github.com/azusachino/asobi
```
Or build locally with `make build` (graph CLI) or `make build-documents` (adds `ingest`/`query`/`compact`). Requires Rust 1.85+, Edition 2024.
## Quick Start
```bash
asobi init # one-time setup (XDG); use --local for a project-scoped graph
# Store and recall context (names are hierarchical, e.g. ame:mobile-support:task-1)
asobi obs "my-project" "Decided to use WAL mode for concurrency"
asobi truth "my-project" "status" "in-progress"
asobi search "WAL"
asobi show "my-project" --with-ids
asobi update-obs "my-project" 1 "Decided to use WAL mode + busy_timeout for concurrency" --id
asobi rm-obs "my-project" 1 --id
```
## Common Commands
- `asobi graph` / `search <q>` / `search --where status=READY` / `show <name>... --expand part_of --with-ids` — read the graph (supports subtree expansions and sequential observation IDs).
- `asobi new <name> <type> --obs "..."` / `obs <name> "..."` / `update-obs <name> <old/id> <new> [--id]` / `rm-obs <name> <content/id> [--id]` — manage observations (supports updates and deletions by unique sequential IDs).
- `asobi truth <name> <key> <value>` / `rm-truth <name> <key>` — manage truths.
- `asobi skills install <src> --all` / `update` / `skills` / `skills show <name>` — manage skills (`--all` and `update` sync, pruning skills dropped upstream; `--select` is additive).
- `asobi stats` / `export -o graph.json` / `import graph.json` / `reset` — inspect & manage.
## Development
- **Task runner**: `make` (Nix-wrapped). Run `make check` for fmt + lint + tests.
- See [`docs/usage.md`](docs/usage.md) for the full CLI reference, [`docs/workflow.md`](docs/workflow.md) for the day-to-day and task dispatcher workflow, and [`docs/architecture.md`](docs/architecture.md) for design.