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What is Quartermaster?

Quartermaster is a local cross-tool registry, converter, and lifecycle manager for AI-agent context. It discovers the skills, agents, rules, memories, slash commands, MCP server configs, hooks, and settings scattered across 11 tools — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Hermes, Grok, Qwen Code, DeepSeek, Ollama, Pi, and Cline (and any drive or project on the machine), normalizes them into one canonical model, indexes them once, and then lets an agent find, convert, install, govern, and track them on demand over MCP — instead of every tool reinventing its own context and every agent preloading everything into every session.

Name origin: a quartermaster issues the right gear to whoever needs it, keeps the inventory, and tracks where everything came from. Same idea.

From skills router to capability operating layer

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Quartermaster started as a basic skills router — find the one SKILL.md a task needs and serve it over MCP. That core loop (discover → index → route) still works, but the project has grown into a cross-tool capability operating layer:

  • Discovers far more than skills — agents, rules, memories, commands, MCP server configs, hooks, and settings/permissions, across all 11 tools, with secrets redacted on the way in.
  • Normalizes everything into a single canonical capability manifest so an artifact from one tool can be reasoned about (and moved) regardless of origin.
  • Converts between tools (e.g. a Claude skill → a Codex skill, a rule → generic) with explicit lossiness and compatibility reporting.
  • Installs and uninstalls safely via approval-gated, reversible hydration plans and hash-verified packs you can export and import.
  • Governs trust — deterministic risk scanning, untrusted-by-default imports, and policy gates that block high-risk or unexpected operations.
  • Tracks provenance and drift — links artifacts back to their upstream source, explains how a local copy has diverged, and previews updates.
  • Ships a web console for browsing, searching, and faceting the whole inventory.

Where to go next

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Quickstart Install, build, and get the server crawling your machine in two minutes.
How it works The discover → normalize → index → serve pipeline.
MCP tool reference All 38 tools across ten areas, with their safety semantics.
Security model Dry-run by default, approval-gated writes, secrets never indexed.
Quartermaster vs. alternatives How it compares to rulesync, Ruler, MCP registries, and manual dotfile sync.

Status

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Quartermaster is a working local build (v0.2.0), validated end-to-end — typecheck, a focused test suite, a live MCP client, and the dashboard. You can run it fully local, in Docker, or as a cloud hub in your own Cloudflare account fed by per-machine collectors. A hosted multi-tenant service is a roadmap item — nothing to sign up for yet. The self-hosted tool described here is the product today.