How do I install the Afterray skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add loro-dev/afterray in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Afterray safe to use?

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Which AI agents work with Afterray?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Afterray free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published Afterray?

loro-dev (@loro-dev) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Afterray by loro-dev — Agent Skill

Name: Afterray
Author: loro-dev

Afterray

Query this Mac's local AfterRay computer history — summaries, activity, memories, and (only if the user opened a 30-minute window) original screenshots, OCR, and accessibility trees. Use when the user asks what they saw, heard, decided, searched, or did earlier; or mentions AfterRay, recall, computer history, replay, or the afterray CLI.

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AfterRay

AfterRay is local-first computer history on this Mac. Query it with the afterray CLI. Never open the vault, the database, or the Keychain.

Prerequisite

afterray must be on PATH (the app installs it to ~/.local/bin). If the binary is missing, tell the user to open AfterRay and turn on Settings → Advanced → CLI for agents.

Read the docs first. They are the source of truth for commands, permissions, and errors:

afterray docs --json
afterray docs permissions
afterray docs <page>

afterray docs --json lists the pages that exist. Not every command has one; those carry their guidance in --help.

Prefer --json on every command except docs.

Is the machine busy

afterray compute --json

Also carries gates[].backlog (work still waiting, counted from the vault), thresholds (what the automatic triggers compare against), recent_summaries (how long recent summary passes took) and summary_typical_ms, which is how to answer "how much longer will this be slow?". What local computation is running, what is held back and the reason why (gates[].reason names the measurement, e.g. "on battery"), plus per-task CPU and the resident model footprint. There is no GPU percentage — macOS does not publish per-process GPU use, so each task reports its lane instead. Read-only: changing the compute mode or suspending work is done in the app.

How to answer

afterray docs if you have not read it this session.
For a day or week, slot day / slot history before search.
search only locates a moment id. It does not return OCR or screenshots.
Follow a hit with moment for metadata. Do not expect ocr_text.
Original evidence (evidence ocr / evidence ax / frame / slot card) is off by default. If the daemon returns evidence_access_disabled, tell the user to open Settings → Advanced → CLI for agents and choose Allow for 30 minutes. Do not invent another command to dump the same bytes.
Cite clock time and app (and a moment id if you have one).
Recording, deleting history, changing settings, ask, and chat are not on the CLI. They belong in the AfterRay app.

The vault key stays in the daemon. Agents never touch the database.

---name: afterraydescription: Query this Mac's local AfterRay computer history — summaries, activity, memories, and (only if the user opened a 30-minute window) original screenshots, OCR, and accessibility trees. Use when the user asks what they saw, heard, decided, searched, or did earlier; or mentions AfterRay, recall, computer history, replay, or the afterray CLI.---# AfterRayAfterRay is local-first computer history on this Mac. Query it with the`afterray` CLI. Never open the vault, the database, or the Keychain.## Prerequisite`afterray` must be on `PATH` (the app installs it to `~/.local/bin`). If thebinary is missing, tell the user to open AfterRay and turn on**Settings → Advanced → CLI for agents**.**Read the docs first.** They are the source of truth for commands,permissions, and errors:```shafterray docs --jsonafterray docs permissionsafterray docs <page>````afterray docs --json` lists the pages that exist. Not every command has one;those carry their guidance in `--help`.Prefer `--json` on every command except `docs`.### Is the machine busy```shafterray compute --json```Also carries `gates[].backlog` (work still waiting, counted from the vault), `thresholds` (what the automatic triggers compare against), `recent_summaries` (how long recent summary passes took) and `summary_typical_ms`, which is how to answer "how much longer will this be slow?". What local computation is running, what is held back and the reason why(`gates[].reason` names the measurement, e.g. "on battery"), plus per-task CPUand the resident model footprint. There is no GPU percentage — macOS does notpublish per-process GPU use, so each task reports its lane instead. Read-only:changing the compute mode or suspending work is done in the app.## How to answer1. `afterray docs` if you have not read it this session.2. For a day or week, `slot day` / `slot history` before `search`.3. `search` only locates a moment id. It does not return OCR or screenshots.4. Follow a hit with `moment` for metadata. Do not expect `ocr_text`.5. Original evidence (`evidence ocr` / `evidence ax` / `frame` / `slot card`) is **off by default**. If the daemon returns `evidence_access_disabled`, tell the user to open **Settings → Advanced → CLI for agents** and choose **Allow for 30 minutes**. Do not invent another command to dump the same bytes.6. Cite clock time and app (and a moment id if you have one).7. Recording, deleting history, changing settings, `ask`, and `chat` are not on the CLI. They belong in the AfterRay app.The vault key stays in the daemon. Agents never touch the database.

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