1. playbooks
temper
  • Temper documentation
  • cli
    • README
    • admin
    • auth
    • check
    • cogmap
    • config
    • context
    • edge
    • init
    • invitations
    • invocation
    • memory
    • pull
    • query
    • resource
    • search
    • skill
    • slack
    • status
    • steward
    • team
    • trail
    • update
    • version
    • warmup
  • config
    • README
  • auth
  • guides
  • doors
    • Building against Temper
    • Running Temper
    • Using Temper
  • concepts
    • Auth Identity
    • Authoring Authorization
    • Contexts and Refs
    • Machine Tokens
    • Operational Memory
    • Release Verification
    • The SAML Reconcile Channel
    • Slack Identity and Revocation
    • Teams and Roles
    • Telemetry
    • Token Verification
    • The Trust Boundary
  • playbooks
    • Adopt operational memory
    • Authenticate
    • Bootstrap an Org
    • Bootstrap a Team's Self-Cognition
    • Build a cognitive map
    • Connect Claude Code
    • Connect Temper to Claude Desktop
    • Deliver L0 Kernel Content
    • Deploy a Steward Agent
    • Deploy the Web UI
    • Enterprise Install
    • Provision a Read-Only GitHub Connection
    • Ingest a corpus
    • Install Temper
    • Run a Team
    • Self-Host Temper
    • Self-host Temper with Okta
    • Self-host Temper with a SAML IdP
    • Send traces to an OTLP backend
    • Slack Mentions
    • Standing Up a Machine Credential
  • sdks
    • Integrating Ruby with temper-rb
  • Temper Cloud API
    • Access
      • POST /api/access/requests — submit a join request for the gating team.
      • GET /api/access/requests/me — check own join request status.
      • DELETE /api/access/requests/me — withdraw a pending join request.
      • POST /api/access/reviews — a revoked principal asks an admin to reconsider (spec D15).
      • GET /api/access/settings — read public system settings.
    • Slack Link
      • Disconnect any principal. Operator path — offboarding and stuck users.
      • Disconnect EVERY Slack principal bound to the caller's own profile.
    • Auditor
      • auditor_dispatch
      • auditor_sweep
      • complete_auditor_job
    • Graph
      • POST /api/cogmaps/{id}/graph/slice — R4 cogmap-scoped neighborhood slice.
      • GET /api/graph/cogmaps/{id}/panorama — enter-a-cogmap Tier-0 interior.
      • GET /api/graph/contexts/composition — Beat E Tier-1: the force-graph composition of a container's (or a residual bucket's) members.
      • GET /api/graph/contexts/panorama — Beat E Tier-0: goal-container territories + residual tray.
      • GET /api/graph/home — the you→teams→cogmaps membership home.
      • GET /api/graph/regions/composition — Beat D region→resources composition drill.
    • Cognitive Maps
      • list_cognitive_maps
      • genesis
      • get_cognitive_map
      • reconcile
      • analytics
      • grant_cogmap_access
      • revoke_cogmap_access
      • materialize
      • materialize_delta
      • region_metrics
      • shape
      • bind_team
      • unbind_team
    • Contexts
      • list_contexts
      • create_context
      • get_context
      • context_materialize
      • reassign
      • context_region_metrics
      • rename
      • context_shape
      • share_team
      • unshare_team
    • Events
      • cursor
      • GET /api/graph/elements/{kind}/{id}/trail — R5 element event-trail. kind ∈ {node, edge}.
    • Facets
      • set_facet
      • Read the live facets of one edge.
      • Set a facet whose owner is an **edge** rather than a resource.
      • Read the live facets of one resource — the confirming read for a write that steers region formation and Atlas grouping.
    • Health
      • health_check
    • Ingest
      • create_ingest
      • update_ingest
      • list_blocks
      • append_block
      • finalize_resource
    • Invitations
      • accept
      • decline
      • list_mine
      • list_team_invitations
      • revoke_team_invitation
      • create_team_invitation
    • Invocations
      • list_invocations
      • open
      • show
      • close
    • Profile
      • get_profile
      • update_profile
      • list_auth_links
    • Query
      • `POST /api/query`.
    • Relationships
      • assert
      • fold
      • retype
      • reweight
    • Resources
      • `GET /api/resources` — **one response type, unconditionally.**
      • create_resource
      • get_resource
      • delete_resource
      • update_resource
      • List the finding at `{id}`'s citation-audit trail — one row per audit, each naming its auditor.
      • Record an auditor's signed defensibility verdict on one `(block, source)` citation of the finding at `{id}`. CONFORM to `handlers::edges::assert` (the sibling authored-write handler): thin — build the command, dispatch it, map the error. No persistence he
      • get_content
      • list_resource_edges
      • resource_evidence
      • grant_resource_access
      • revoke_resource_access
      • resource_lineage
      • provenance
      • annotate_resource
    • Meta
      • get_meta
      • update_meta
    • Reassign
      • reassign_resource
      • reassign_team
    • Search
      • `POST /api/search`.
    • Steward
      • candidates
      • dispatch
      • sweep
      • delta
      • advance
    • Teams
      • list_teams
      • create_team
      • detail
      • delete_team
      • update_team
      • add_member
      • remove_member
      • change_role
    • Schemas
      • AcceptInvitationResponse
      • ActInput
      • ActInvocation
      • ActName
      • ActQuantity
      • ActRefusal
      • ActorAuthority
      • AddMemberRequest
      • AdvanceWatermarkAck
      • AdvanceWatermarkRequest
      • AgentAuthorship
      • AppendBlockPayload
      • AssertRelationshipRequest
      • AtlasEdge
      • AtlasHome
      • AtlasNode
      • AtlasSubgraph
      • AuditCitation
      • AuditSweepRow
      • AuditorDispatchTickRequest
      • AuditorDispatchTickResponse
      • AuditorJobCompleteAck
      • BindTeamOutcome
      • BindTeamRequest
      • BlockId
      • BlockProvenanceRow
      • BlocksResponse
      • BodyStorage
      • Bridge
      • BulkReassignAck
      • BulkReassignRequest
      • ChangeRoleRequest
      • CharterBlock
      • CharterDisposition
      • CitationAuditRequest
      • CitationAuditRow
      • ClaimedAuditJob
      • ClaimedJob
      • CloseInvocationRequest
      • CogmapAnalyticsRow
      • CogmapDetail
      • CogmapFoundationRow
      • CogmapGrantBody
      • CogmapId
      • CogmapRegionMetricsRow
      • CogmapRegionRow
      • CogmapRegulationRow
      • CogmapRevokeBody
      • CogmapRow
      • CogmapStaleness
      • CombineNode
      • CombineOp
      • Composition
      • CompositionTrace
      • ConfidenceBand
      • ContentResponse
      • ContextCreateRequest
      • ContextId
      • ContextOwnerRef
      • ContextPanorama
      • ContextRow
      • ContextRowWithCounts
      • CorrelationId
      • CreateCogmapOutcome
      • CreateCogmapRequest
      • CreateInvitationRequest
      • CreateRequestBody
      • CreateReviewBody
      • DeleteResponse
      • DeviceOverrides
      • DispatchTickRequest
      • DispatchTickResponse
      • Disposition
      • DriftSweepRow
      • EdgeFacetRow
      • EdgeFacetSetRequest
      • EdgeFacetsResponse
      • EdgeFilter
      • EdgeId
      • EdgeKind
      • ElementEvent
      • ElementKind
      • EmbedDispatchSummary
      • Entitlements
      • ErrorBody
      • ErrorDetail
      • ErrorDetails
      • EventCursorResponse
      • EventTrail
      • ExactArm
      • ExactHit
      • Extent
      • FacetAck
      • FacetPredicate
      • FacetSetRequest
      • FinalizePayload
      • FoldRelationshipRequest
      • GrantOutcome
      • GraphEdgeRow
      • GroupKeyMeta
      • HealthResponse
      • HomeCogmap
      • HomeContext
      • IdKind
      • IdProvenance
      • IdSet
      • IdpRevocation
      • IngestCreateResponse
      • IngestDelta
      • IngestPayload
      • IngestState
      • InheritedReadGrant
      • InheritedShare
      • InputSource
      • Intention
      • InvitationStatus
      • InvitationTokenRequest
      • InviteeInvitation
      • InvocationAck
      • InvocationActRow
      • InvocationCloseAck
      • InvocationId
      • InvocationSummary
      • InvocationView
      • JoinRequest
      • JoinRequestStatus
      • LensId
      • LineageNode
      • ManagedMeta
      • MatchLocation
      • MaterializeAck
      • MaterializeDelta
      • MaterializeRequest
      • MergePolicy
      • MetaUpdatePayload
      • NarrowedBy
      • NodeHome
      • OpenInvocationRequest
      • OrdOp
      • OrphanNode
      • OutcomeDeclaration
      • PlanRefusal
      • PlanRefusalDetails
      • Polarity
      • Profile
      • ProfileAuthLink
      • ProfileId
      • ProfileUpdateRequest
      • ProfileWithEntitlements
      • PropertyOp
      • PropertyPredicate
      • ProvenanceSource
      • PublicSystemSettings
      • QuantityScale
      • QueryResponse
      • ReassignAck
      • ReassignContextOutcome
      • ReassignContextRequest
      • ReassignResourceRequest
      • ReconcileCogmapRequest
      • ReconcileEdge
      • ReconcileEdgeTombstone
      • ReconcileEntry
      • ReconcileOutcome
      • ReconcileTelos
      • ReconcileTelosBlock
      • ReconcileTombstone
      • Refusal
      • RefusalReason
      • RegionHit
      • RegionId
      • RelationshipAck
      • RemoveMemberOutcome
      • RenameContextOutcome
      • RenameContextRequest
      • ResidualBucket
      • ResidualContext
      • ResidualGroups
      • ResidualOwnedReach
      • ResourceAnnotateRequest
      • ResourceCreateRequest
      • ResourceFacetRow
      • ResourceFacets
      • ResourceFacetsResponse
      • ResourceFilter
      • ResourceGrantBody
      • ResourceHit
      • ResourceId
      • ResourceLineage
      • ResourceListResponse
      • ResourceRevokeBody
      • ResourceSection
      • ResourceSortField
      • ResourceUpdateRequest
      • ResourceView
      • ReturnSpec
      • RetypeRelationshipRequest
      • RevokeOutcome
      • ReweightRelationshipRequest
      • ScoreKind
      • Scoring
      • SearchParams
      • SearchReason
      • SearchResponse
      • SearchResultRow
      • SearchScope
      • SearchScopeInfo
      • SegmentInfo
      • SegmentedBegin
      • SegmentedBeginResponse
      • ShareContextOutcome
      • ShareContextRequest
      • SlackDisconnectRequest
      • SlackDisconnectResponse
      • SlackDisconnectedPrincipal
      • SliceRequest
      • SortOrder
      • StageDisposition
      • StageInput
      • StageInputTrace
      • StageName
      • StageNode
      • StageOutput
      • StageRelation
      • StageResult
      • StageTrace
      • Standing
      • StandingShape
      • Subscription
      • SubscriptionOverride
      • SystemAccessDetails
      • TeamCreateRequest
      • TeamDetail
      • TeamInvitation
      • TeamMemberDetail
      • TeamMemberRow
      • TeamMemberSource
      • TeamRole
      • TeamRow
      • TeamUpdateRequest
      • Territory
      • TerritoryKind
      • TerritoryOverview
      • UnbindTeamOutcome
      • UnshareContextOutcome
      • VaultConfig
      • ViaEntry
      • WideArm
      • WideHit
  • Temper /api/query — the compositional read surface
    • Run a declared composition of situated acts.
    • Schemas
      • Composition
      • OutcomeDeclaration
      • ReturnSpec
      • Intention
      • StageNode
      • ActInvocation
      • CombineNode
      • StageInput
      • StageRelation
      • Disclosure
      • QueryResponse
      • StageResult
      • StageOutput
      • ScoreKind
      • Scoring
      • ResourceHit
      • CompositionTrace
      • StageTrace
      • InputSource
      • NarrowedBy
      • StageName
      • ActName
      • IdKind
      • IdSet
      • BoundTerm
      • Extent
      • StageDisposition
      • ActRefusal
      • PlanRefusal
      • RefusalReason
      • ActQuantity
      • QuantityScale
      • ResourceFilter
      • EdgeFilter
      • PropertyPredicate
      • PropertyOp
      • ResourceSection
      • EdgeKind
      • OrdOp
      • CogmapId
      • ContextId
      • IdProvenance
      • FacetPredicate
      • CombineOp
      • BlockId
      • MatchLocation
      • BodyStorage
      • ResourceId
      • IngestState
      • ManagedMeta
      • ProfileId
      • ResourceView
      • Polarity
      • ViaEntry
      • LensId
      • RegionId
      • CogmapRegionRow
      • RegionHit
      • StageInputTrace
      • Standing
      • ActorAuthority
      • Refusal
      • SystemAccessDetails
      • PlanRefusalDetails
      • ErrorDetails
      • ErrorDetail
      • ErrorBody
  1. playbooks

Connect Claude Code

For individual users — someone who wants to drive Temper from Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI
agent). This is the only Claude Code path, and it is distinct from the Claude Desktop path.

Outcome#

By the end of this page, Claude Code will have the Temper skill installed and will be able to
run /temper commands to manage your knowledge base.

Prerequisites#

Temper installed — see Install Temper.
Temper initialized — run temper init first. The skill installer needs a config file on
disk.
Authentication is NOT required for this step. The skill installer makes no network call
and builds no client. You will need to authenticate separately (see
Authenticate) before running Temper commands through the skill.

Install the skill#

This writes approximately 20 files to ~/.claude/skills/temper/ plus
~/.claude/commands/temper.md. It installs the Temper skill that teaches Claude Code the
session lifecycle, grounding, and outcome registers.
temper init is required, authentication is not. The skill installer needs a config file
to know which instance to target, but it does not authenticate or make any network call.
You can install the skill before or after authenticating — the skill itself is inert until
you run a /temper command through Claude Code.

The two Claude paths — and why they are different#

Claude Code drives the CLI. It wants temper skill install --target claude. Claude Code
can run a binary, so it shells out to temper directly. Authenticate with
temper auth login and Claude Code inherits your cached token.
Claude Desktop / claude.ai cannot run a binary. It drives MCP over HTTP and wants the
connector URL plus the uploaded skill zip. That reader never runs temper init or
temper auth login — they authenticate through the connector's own OAuth prompt. See
Connect Claude Desktop for that path.

Further reading#

Authenticate after installing the skill: Authenticate.
The trust boundary your CLI session crosses:
The Trust Boundary.
Using Temper from the CLI: temperkb.io/using-temper.
Modified at 2026-08-20 02:05:41
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