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plasma-ai/fractal

Hierarchical agent loops with recursive self-organization.

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Individual skills in this repository

  • fractal fractal/_node/skills/fractal
  • memory fractal/_node/skills/memory
  • radio fractal/_node/skills/radio
  • wiki fractal/_node/skills/wiki
  • fractal fractal/skills/fractal

How it works

fractal

When your agent uses it

Spawn and manage child nodes -- recursive autonomous agent loops.

What it loads into context

Frontmatter

18 tokens

Always available to the agent

SKILL.md

7,063 tokens

When the skill is activated

Reference documents

10,417 tokens

Loaded on request

Token counts are estimates. Scripts run separately; they are not counted as reference context.

The playbook

  1. Limits (check before spawning)
  2. Cost
  3. Spawn
  4. Monitor and control
  5. Continue mode
  6. Radio

Files

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Read SKILL.md

# Fractal

A fractal is a tree of autonomous loops, each running in an isolated Git
worktree. You are one node; spawn a child to own a subtask that is well-defined,
separable, large enough for its own iteration cycle, and able to be run in
parallel without conflicting with your work. Pay careful attention to your
NODE.md instructions to guide you on how and when to spawn sub-nodes.

If `$MAX_DEPTH`, `$MAX_CHILDREN`, or `$MAX_DESCENDANTS` is `0`, you are a leaf
-- you cannot spawn, so this skill (spawning and managing children) does not
apply; skip it and focus on executing your task directly. Otherwise, **default
to spawning.** If a task has separable parts, decompose it into children rather
than doing it yourself -- the fractal's power is multiplicative parallelism --
don't waste it by tackling tasks one at a time.
View the complete source on GitHub

Skills included

  • fractal
  • memory
  • radio
  • wiki
  • fractal

Repository facts

License
Apache-2.0
Created
Jul 1, 2026
Last pushed
Nov 5, 2026
Forks
58
Open issues
6
Project activity
Active

Rank over the last 12 weeks

Now #988 · best #689 · down 233 in 30 days

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  6. #988 since Oct 25
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Before you install

Instructions only

Automated signals, not a guarantee

Checked Nov 6, 2026

Not fully analyzed: some files were too long, unreadable or missing. This never lowers the level.

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.claude-plugin/plugin.json

  • Network accessline 7
    "name": "Plasma AI",     "email": "eng@plasma.ai",     "url": "https://plasma.ai"
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    "email": "eng@plasma.ai",     "url": "https://plasma.ai"   },
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    "url": "https://plasma.ai"
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    },   "skills": ["./fractal/skills"],   "repository": "https://github.com/plasma-ai/fractal",
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    "skills": ["./fractal/skills"],   "repository": "https://github.com/plasma-ai/fractal",   "keywords": ["fractal"]
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    "repository": "https://github.com/plasma-ai/fractal",

fractal/skills/fractal/SKILL.md

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How the signals fit together

Facts from a static read of the files at the pinned commit. They describe what the code does, not why.

Some files could not be read; the facts below still hold.

Signal confidence: 2 facts

Works with

Agent compatibility, from the files in this repository
AgentStatusEvidenceInstall to
Claude CodeNativeManifest .claude-plugin/plugin.json.claude/skills/<skill-name>/
CodexNativeManifest AGENTS.md.agents/skills/<skill-name>/
CursorCompatibleStandard SKILL.md fractal/_node/skills/fractal/SKILL.md.cursor/skills/<skill-name>/
Gemini CLICompatibleStandard SKILL.md fractal/_node/skills/fractal/SKILL.md.gemini/skills/<skill-name>/
GitHub CopilotCompatibleStandard SKILL.md fractal/_node/skills/fractal/SKILL.md.github/skills/<skill-name>/
OpenCodeCompatibleStandard SKILL.md fractal/_node/skills/fractal/SKILL.md.opencode/skills/<skill-name>/
  • Native The repository ships a manifest, folder or frontmatter field for this agent.
  • Compatible A standard SKILL.md that this agent can read.
  • Unknown No evidence either way.

Derived automatically from paths, manifests and frontmatter. Not tested on each agent.

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