/observal-advanced

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Hemalatha Madeswaran <hemalathamadeswaran@gmail.com>
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Hari Srinivasan <harisrini21@gmail.com>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
name: observal-advanced
command: observal
description: Advanced Observal operations including session reconciliation, CLI upgrades and downgrades, complete uninstallation, and local fallback mode for offline use. Use when the user wants to reconcile sessions, upgrade or downgrade the CLI, uninstall Observal, or write agent configs locally when the server is unreachable.
version: 2.0.0
owner: observal

Observal Advanced Operations

Procedure: Reconcile Sessions

Push local session JSONL to server for full trace context. Normally automatic via hooks.

Manual recovery for all detected harnesses:

observal reconcile

Target one harness or shorten the discovery window when needed:

observal reconcile --harness claude-code --since 24

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Procedure: Self-Manage CLI

observal self status
observal self upgrade --force
observal self upgrade --version 2.5.0 --force
observal self downgrade --list
observal self downgrade --version 2.4.0 --force
observal self rollback

Use `--force` when running upgrades or downgrades from an agent so the command is non-interactive.

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Procedure: Uninstall

Completely removes Observal. **Destructive and irreversible.**

observal self uninstall

Requires typing `confirm` (not `--yes`). Selective flags:

• `--keep-config`: preserve `~/.observal/`
• `--keep-cli`: keep the CLI binary
• `--keep-repo`: keep the cloned repo
• `--repo-dir PATH`: specify repo location

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Procedure: Local Fallback Mode

Use **only** when a command exits with `Connection failed` or `Not configured`.

| harness | User-scope path | Project-scope path | |---|---|---| | Claude Code | `~/.claude/agents/<name>.md` | `.claude/agents/<name>.md` | | Kiro | `~/.kiro/agents/<name>.json` | `.kiro/agents/<name>.json` | | Cursor | `~/.cursor/rules/<name>.mdc` | `.cursor/rules/<name>.mdc` | | VS Code | `~/.config/Code/User/agents/<name>.md` | `.vscode/agents/<name>.md` | | Codex CLI | `~/.codex/agents/<name>.md` | `.codex/agents/<name>.md` | | Copilot CLI | `~/.config/github-copilot/agents/<name>.md` | `.github/copilot/agents/<name>.md` | | OpenCode | `~/.opencode/agents/<name>.md` | `.opencode/agents/<name>.md` |

**Kiro** (`~/.kiro/agents/<name>.json`):

{"name":"<name>","description":"<desc>","prompt":"<prompt>","model":"claude-sonnet-4-20250514","mcpServers":{},"tools":["*"],"resources":["skill://~/.kiro/skills/*/SKILL.md"]}

**Claude Code, VS Code, Codex CLI, Copilot CLI, OpenCode** (markdown):

---
name: <name>
description: <desc>
---
<prompt>

**Cursor** (`.mdc`):

---
name: <name>
description: <desc>
---
<prompt>

After writing locally, remind the user to run `observal agent create` once the server is reachable.

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Output Contract

1. One sentence stating intent. 2. The exact command in a fenced code block. 3. The result: success / specific error. 4. The next action, or "done".