SecondBrain

A personal knowledge base that lives in this folder. Drop content in, have it organized automatically, ask questions, and get sourced answers — through Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or OpenCode skills, or a local web dashboard (available as a downloadable macOS app).

START HERE — first run

Just cloned this? Do these steps in order. It's the same in Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode.

• Clone the repo (your agent may have already done this).
• Restart your agent so it's running inside the SecondBrain folder. Agents

load their skills and read config at startup, based on the folder they open in. If you cloned from your home directory, the /second-brain-* skills don't exist in that session yet — quit and reopen the agent here. (Skipping this is the #1 reason "the commands don't work.")

• Run setup: /second-brain-setup (Claude Code) or $second-brain-setup

(Codex). It asks for your interests and engine, then writes your config.

• Restart your agent once more. This loads the config setup just wrote. Now

everything works.

• Start using it — pick a path below.

**No CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md in the folder? That's expected.** They're generated by /second-brain-setup and are intentionally absent from a fresh clone. The CLAUDE.md.example / AGENTS.md.example files show what setup will create — you don't need to touch them by hand.