Personal Squad — Skill Document

You can keep the same AI agents across projects using ambient directory discovery. Personal agents are merged into your session cast automatically at startup, ensuring consistent behavior across repositories without manual configuration.

Personal agents cannot write to project state when using ghost-protocol constraints. They can read project state but are restricted from writing to the project's `.squad/` state to prevent accidental side effects across repositories.

Run `squad personal init` from your terminal to create your personal-squad directory. You can then add agents so they appear automatically in future sessions, and use commands to list or remove them as needed.

Yes, environment variable override works for disabling ambient agent discovery. You can control session management and prevent personal agents from being merged into the session cast by setting the appropriate environment variable.

The best way to manage persistent configurations is using a global personal-squad directory. This stores your user-defined agents and automatically merges them with project agents at startup, maintaining safety boundaries while ensuring consistent behavior.