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Haft

Haft is a local governance layer for AI coding agents that stores project problems, compared options, human decisions, supporting evidence and stale information as durable, typed project records.

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Practical overview

When it fits

Use Haft when consequential engineering reasoning should persist beyond an agent conversation as structured project memory, or when setting up a documented Claude Code or Codex integration.

Who it is for

  • Engineering teams using Claude Code or Codex that want project decisions and their evidence available as durable agent context.
  • Developers who want to initialize a project ledger without configuring a host integration.

Documented uses

  • Record the problem a project is solving and the options considered.
  • Preserve human decisions and the evidence supporting them for later engineering work.
  • Identify project evidence that has become stale.
  • Configure project-local skills and MCP integration for a supported coding-agent host.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

  • Claude Code and Codex are the stable supported hosts; several other listed adapters are experimental or legacy.
  • Claude Code and Codex setup can place skills globally or in the project using the documented --local option.
  • Bare haft init requires terminal input and output for its interactive host selection; automation must specify intent explicitly.
  • The project core and ledger can be initialized without host carriers using haft init --core-only.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Initialize Haft for a Claude Code project

Set up Haft’s documented Claude Code integration in a project.

Before you start

  • The Haft command-line binary.
  • A project directory.
  • Claude Code as the selected host.

Steps

  1. In a new project, run haft init --claude to configure Claude MCP, skills and the managed section in CLAUDE.md.

  2. To keep skills in the repository, use haft init --claude --local instead.

  3. For an existing initialized project after installing a new binary, fully restart or reconnect the coding-agent host.

Expected outcome

Haft’s Claude integration is initialized, with skills placed globally or in the project according to the selected command.

Guide limitations

  • Claude Code is listed as a stable supported host; other adapters have different support status.
  • The documented restart/reconnect instruction applies when updating an already initialized project.
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Source-based practical guide

Initialize Haft for Codex

Set up the documented Codex MCP, skills and project-instruction integration.

Before you start

  • The Haft command-line binary.
  • A project directory.
  • Codex as the selected host.

Steps

  1. Run haft init --codex for Codex MCP, skills and a managed section in AGENTS.md.

  2. Use haft init --codex --local to put skills in the project’s .agents/skills directory.

  3. For an existing initialized project after installing a new binary, fully restart or reconnect the coding-agent host.

Expected outcome

Haft’s Codex integration is initialized, with skills in the documented global or project-local location.

Guide limitations

  • Codex is listed as a stable supported host.
  • The README says not to use haft init as routine database maintenance.
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COMPARE OPTIONS

Compare options for AI coding assistance

These projects document a common task and share a project role. This is a source-based comparison, not an execution benchmark or a guarantee of interchangeability.

ProjectDocumented purposePlatformAccess and requirements
HaftRecord the problem a project is solving and the options considered.CLI, Self-hosted
Continuum — pouyahasanamrejiStore project lessons so coding agents can retrieve them across conversations.CLI, Self-hosted, ServerThe repository documents local Docker Compose and bare-metal development setups. Bare-metal startup requires Node 22.12.0 or later and pnpm 10.33 or later; the Compose path skips these host prerequisites.
ContextatlasIndex a repository and find relevant implementation details using a natural-language question.CLI, ServerThe project is open source under the MIT license. Its documented requirements include Node.js 20 or later and embedding and reranking API credentials and settings.
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