Chief for Codex and Claude Code

The Chief skill teaches an agent when to use your work memory and how to read its evidence. It uses the chief CLI and the account established by chief login.

Install

Install the CLI and sign in, then install its bundled skill:

curl -fsSL https://runchief.ai/install.sh | sh
chief login
chief skill --install
chief status

No source checkout or GitHub access is required. The Chief source repository is private; beta access does not grant access to it.

The command writes ~/.codex/skills/chief/SKILL.md and ~/.claude/skills/chief/SKILL.md. To install for only one agent:

chief skill --install --target codex
chief skill --install --target claude-code

If either path is a symlink — pointing at a checkout whose skill you edit, for example — the install refuses that harness and writes nothing there, rather than replacing the file the link points at. It names the path it refused and still installs any other requested harness. Remove the link to go back to a Chief-managed copy.

Start a new agent session after installing. The skill tells the agent when Chief is useful; it does not create another credential or start background processing. The desktop runtime runs local understanding separately.

Update

chief upgrade
chief skill --install

Start a new agent session to load the updated instructions. An already-running MCP process also needs to restart to use the new CLI binary.

Other agents

For an agent that reads a project instruction file, chief skill prints the same contract so you can include it in that file. If the agent cannot execute a CLI, use the MCP interface.

To remove the skill, delete its chief/SKILL.md file from the corresponding agent's skills directory. This does not revoke the login; chief logout does.