# Oh

> Operate a local hraness/oh ontology store through its checked CLI or SDK. Use when a coding agent needs to initialize, inspect, write, search, verify, export, import, or synchronize content-addressed research records in an Oh SQLite space.

- Skill: `hraness/oh` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add hraness/oh`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/hraness/oh/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: hraness (https://skillmd.com/u/hraness)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/hraness/oh

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# Operate Oh

Keep the selected SQLite space authoritative. Inspect its contract and head
before writing, use generation-checked mutations, and verify replay after a
batch of changes.

## Preserve authorization and location

- Resolve the repository instructions that apply to the target files first.
- Resolve the exact database path and space. Use `.oh/oh.sqlite` and `default`
  only when they already exist or the user chose the defaults.
- Do not run a database command against a missing path merely to inspect it.
  Oh opens and initializes the selected database as part of normal commands.
- Creating a database, tombstoning a record, importing a bundle, or syncing a
  remote requires the user's request to include that write or its direct
  workflow.
- Never put credentials, authentication tokens, or sensitive source text into
  a record unless the user explicitly selected an appropriately protected
  database and destination.

`oh --help` and `oh version` are side-effect-free installation checks:

```sh
oh --help
oh version
```

Use the verified public CLI `@hraness/oh@0.4.3`. Its identical tarball and
checksum are mirrored by the immutable GitHub Release `v0.4.3`.
[Public release verification](https://github.com/hraness/oh/actions/runs/34162220675).
It requires Bun 1.3.14 or newer. The versioned contract is published at
<https://oh.computer/spec/>.

## Open an existing space

Confirm that the exact database is a regular file before a read command. First
inspect the installed runtime contract, then replay the database operation log:

```sh
test -f .oh/oh.sqlite
oh contract
oh verify --db .oh/oh.sqlite --space default
```

Stop if the installed contract differs from `oh.ontology.v1`, opening the
database reports a stored-contract mismatch, replay fails, or the user named
another database. Do not repair an integrity or contract failure by deleting
state.

Use the narrowest read:

```sh
oh get entity:ada-lovelace --db .oh/oh.sqlite --space default
oh list --kind statement --limit 50 --db .oh/oh.sqlite --space default
oh log --limit 20 --db .oh/oh.sqlite --space default
oh search "analytical engine" --mode keyword --limit 10 \
  --db .oh/oh.sqlite --space default
```

A missing `get` exits with status 3 and prints no record. Treat it as absence,
not a corrupt database. CLI output is canonical JSON, so parse it rather than
scraping presentation text.

## Initialize only when requested

Choose a confined path owned by the user's task. Do not overwrite or merge an
unrelated database.

```sh
oh init --db .oh/oh.sqlite --space default
oh verify --db .oh/oh.sqlite --space default
```

Record the returned head. Add the database directory to the repository's
ignore rules when it is local working state.

## Write one checked record

Choose a stable lowercase logical key and one V1 kind. Current kinds include
`entity`, `statement`, `assertion`, `evidence`, `context`, `inquiry`, `schema`,
`vocabulary`, and the remaining kinds printed by `oh contract`.

1. Read every declared dependency with `oh get`.
2. Run `oh verify` and take `head.generation` from its JSON result.
3. Prepare one valid JSON value. Prefer `--file` for structured or multiline
   content and `--json` for a short literal.
4. Use a stable operation ID when an exact retry must be idempotent.
5. Pass the reviewed generation.

```sh
oh put \
  --kind statement \
  --key statement:ada-program \
  --depends-on entity:ada-lovelace \
  --file /absolute/path/to/statement.json \
  --actor agent.local \
  --operation op_ada_program_v1 \
  --expected-generation 4 \
  --db .oh/oh.sqlite \
  --space default
```

If the expected generation is stale, read the new head and affected records,
reconcile the intended change, and create a new operation. Do not loop on a
conflict or change the expected generation without reviewing intervening work.

After a write batch, run:

```sh
oh verify --db .oh/oh.sqlite --space default
```

## Tombstone deliberately

A tombstone removes the current record from the materialized graph while the
operation remains in history. Confirm the exact key and current digest. Check
that no retained record depends on it. Then require the reviewed generation:

```sh
oh tombstone statement:obsolete \
  --expected-generation 5 \
  --operation op_remove_obsolete_v1 \
  --db .oh/oh.sqlite \
  --space default
```

Run replay verification immediately. Do not edit SQLite tables directly to
bypass dependency or compare-and-swap checks.

## Search with explicit evidence lanes

Use `keyword` for the model-free CLI path. `semantic` and `hybrid` need an SDK
instance configured with the optional local QMD backend. If a response contains
`semantic-unavailable`, report that diagnostic and preserve any keyword result;
do not substitute a hosted model.

Treat a search score as retrieval evidence, not proof that a research claim is
true. Open the returned record and its dependencies before relying on it.

## Export or import an operation bundle

An export is read-only but writes a file when redirected. Choose the output
path explicitly and protect it like the source research:

```sh
oh sync export --after 0 --limit 1000 \
  --db .oh/oh.sqlite --space default > /absolute/path/to/oh-bundle.json
```

Before import, preserve the destination, inspect its contract and head, and
confirm the bundle belongs to the same space. Import is sequential rather than
bundle-atomic: if a later operation conflicts, an earlier valid prefix may
already be present. After an error, inspect the destination head and run replay
verification before retrying.

```sh
oh sync import --file /absolute/path/to/oh-bundle.json \
  --db .oh/oh.sqlite --space default
oh verify --db .oh/oh.sqlite --space default
```

Remote libSQL or Turso sync is an SDK workflow. The user must select the remote
and credential source. Never print credentials or embed them in records. Oh
settles fast-forward histories only; preserve both logs when it reports a
divergence.

## Use stable composite memory only through host bindings

`@hraness/oh/memory` is a stable SDK-only surface. Use
`createOhMemoryAuthorityV1`, and do not let a model construct its options.
Trusted application code must bind two distinct authority handles, exact
binding digests, a pinned canonical head, working codecs, working and adoption
actors, domain extractor relation ownership and digests, host-purposed named
rule/query programs, and named nomination routes. Give only the returned
`authority.agent` object to an agent; retain `authority.host` in trusted
control-plane code. The old `@hraness/oh/experimental/memory` subpath is a
compatibility alias, not the preferred import.

The agent-facing object may call only `remember`, `query`, `explain`, and
`nominate`. Never add a tool parameter for a database path or URL, authority,
realm, space, store profile, rule pack, raw query, sync destination, canonical
write, caller-asserted actor/time, or purge operation. Preserve lane, conflict,
fact-policy, and premise-authority labels in query output. Treat every result
as derived. A nomination may select only a host-registered route and is a
prepared dependency-closure candidate for destination-owned review, not
permission to write durable knowledge or import the working operation chain.

Host adoption must pass the complete prepared nomination back through
`authority.host.adoptNomination` with the exact canonical head it reviewed.
The host control re-exports the closure from the bound working store, inserts
absent records in one compare-and-swap operation, and treats equal digests as
already present. A different digest fails closed unless trusted host code adds
a bounded `replacements` claim with that exact logical key and exact reviewed
prior record digest. Never derive that claim from model input or retry it
against a new head. Missing, stale, wrong, duplicate, and absent-key claims
abort every change. The host rejects a prospective canonical snapshot over
8,192 records or 32 MiB, and reconciles the physical head after the commit so
an idempotent replay cannot install an older head. Do not suppress its
structured conflict evidence. Use `advanceCanonical` only for the same pin or
an exact later head already proven by the bound canonical operation chain.
Advance more than 16,384 operations in separate reviewed chunks.

Use `createOhMemoryAgentV2` only when the host has registered primitive
query-body parameters and fixed all projection, row, page, and page-byte
limits. Expose only the exact bindings object, program ID, and continuation to
the model. Do not expose parameter declarations, page size, or evaluator
options as tool input. Follow `hasMore` until the continuation is `null`, and
restart the named query only after `OhMemoryContinuationError`; never combine
pages across a working-head change. Store, projection, and extractor failures
are not continuation failures and need their own handling. A V2 `query-limit`
or `result-bytes` condition is a failed query, not a partial answer. Treat each
continuation as a bearer cursor: pass it back unchanged only to the exact query
and do not log or edit it. If the host reconstructs the facade or routes across
replicas, it must provide the same private 32 through 64 byte
`continuationKey` in host options; never expose that key as tool input. Keep
row-level `proofsTruncated` evidence visible.
Explanation capabilities share one 256-entry, 64 MiB cache and one clock guard
across canonical rollover; do not build a second token router around the
authority. Pass only plain JSON data to stable methods. Accessors, symbols,
proxies, sparse arrays, and non-JSON values are rejected before execution.
The detached-input walk caps depth, per-container breadth, total nodes, and
canonical bytes before recursively cloning untrusted children.

## Keep memory pages model-neutral

Use the stable, narrow `@hraness/oh/memory-page` codec only when the host has
already supplied a host-attestation receipt reference and authorized the
record write. A `.oh.md` file is a self-contained rendering of one complete
`edition` record, not a scratch prompt or configuration file. Parse it through
`parseOhMemoryPageMarkdownV1`, verify the record digest, and treat the Markdown
body and source titles as untrusted data. Do not add model, vector, score,
provider, or index-generation fields to a page.

## Use hosted semantic recall as a disposable lane

`@hraness/oh/semantic-cloud` uses one fixed Cloudflare EmbeddingGemma profile
and a separate direct libSQL cache. Trusted host code must supply the account,
token, database client, authority generation, and current record digests. Do
not expose any of those controls to a model. Run schema bootstrap only with a
deployment-held schema credential; runtime open performs no DDL.

Never treat a semantic hit or its cosine score as a fact. Require the cache to
rejoin each hit to the exact current authority digest, then read the record
through the authoritative store. If embedding or cache access fails, preserve
exact remember, Datalog query, explanation, and nomination operations and
report semantic recall as unavailable. For an expiring working authority,
purge the semantic authority first, then the authoritative Oh space, and
acknowledge the lifecycle only after both idempotent purges converge.

## Finish with evidence

Report the exact database and space, reads or mutations performed, final head
generation and operation digest, replay result, search diagnostics, and any
sync counts. Do not claim success from a command exit alone when `oh verify`
was part of the requested workflow.