Igor: clan opening, wired lifecycle (classification gate, conversation-to-work trigger, proactive skim, wrap-up accretion), spawn template with branch/name/model, synthesis-not-verification rule, model pinned to opus-4-6[1m], skill namespace fixed to spire:igor. Task-notification plumbing extracted to harness-notes.md. New mindset.md restores philosophical root lost in cross-repo extraction. Adept: earned authority stance, strict-domain gravity well, compression-means- successor in end-of-life. Athanor: furnace opening paragraph, fixed broken @include path. Implementation: fixed frontmatter name mismatch. Journal template: Assistant -> Igor, contexts-as-paths comment. Includes both review reports (Fable agent review, Sonnet skill audit).
⚗️ Spire
An agent orchestration system shaped like an alchemist's tower. Knowledge accumulates, work gets dispatched to hands better suited for it, and the system tends itself rather than accreting cruft. Session coordination, domain expertise, dispatching, and knowledge management are distinct crafts — each with its own skill or agent — not folded into one overloaded assistant.
Replaces g4b_ai.
Components
Skills
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
igor |
Session coordinator. Talks to the user, delegates work, keeps a journal, spawns adepts. Invoke with /igor <topic>. |
tome |
Knowledge layer. Navigate, curate, check, handoff, init. Opt-in — requires project setup via spire:init. |
workpad |
Document placement — reports, plans, goals, brainstorms, designs, journals, research, specs. |
research-tree |
Multi-topic research as a dependency tree of parallel phases. |
research |
Research governance — bounded agent spawning, web fetch budgets. |
implementation |
Implementation orchestration — sequencing, delegation, verification. |
svg |
SVG diagram placement and referencing in markdown. |
Agents
| Agent | Role |
|---|---|
igor |
Session coordinator (loaded by the igor skill). |
adept |
Domain-scoped knowledge agent. Long-lived within a session, accumulates journals. |
athanor |
Dispatching orchestrator — the slow furnace. "Put it in the oven." |
researcher |
Deep research. Reads, synthesizes, writes reports. No sub-agents. |
search |
Read-only code/file lookup. |
scout |
Lightweight fact extraction. Fast and cheap. |
Installation
Add spire to enabledPlugins in .claude/settings.json (official) or .claude/settings.local.json (shadow):
{
"enabledPlugins": ["spire@reliquary"]
}