Agents accumulate context over time. Memories, skills, plans, artifacts. They’re all bundles of markdown, sometimes a bit of code.
This skill lets agents share context files or folders using a short url. A no-friction transport layer for agent context:
Two chat panels with the seed pill floating between them, framed throughout by faint hand-drawn pencil outlines that show where every element will land before it appears. Top panel labelled 'publisher', four turns: Dom pastes 'Fetch & install seed.show/skill' to install the skill itself; the agent confirms 'Seed skill installed'; Dom then says 'Share /review-draft, ask for feedback'; the agent replies '🚀 seed.show/xkot0'. Between the two panels: a sage-green URL pill 'seed.show/xkot0' (the hero of the figure, glowing once), with a soft pulsing glow and eight radial rays. Bottom panel labelled 'recipient': a friend's message bubble (right-aligned) shows the pasted 'Fetch & install seed.show/xkot0'; below it, a folder card '/tmp/seed-xkot0/' with three file rows (README.md, intro.md, outline.md) — the install result; then the agent's reply (sage-tinted, left-aligned): 'Downloaded /review-draft. You've been asked for feedback.' The argument: install the skill once, then any folder becomes a URL the recipient can paste. By the rest state every element has filled in and the figure reads top to bottom as a single handoff.
Two chat panels with the seed pill floating between them, framed throughout by faint hand-drawn pencil outlines that show where every element will land before it appears. Top panel labelled 'publisher', four turns: Dom pastes 'Fetch & install seed.show/skill' to install the skill itself; the agent confirms 'Seed skill installed'; Dom then says 'Share /review-draft, ask for feedback'; the agent replies '🚀 seed.show/xkot0'. Between the two panels: a sage-green URL pill 'seed.show/xkot0' (the hero of the figure, glowing once), with a soft pulsing glow and eight radial rays. Bottom panel labelled 'recipient': a friend's message bubble (right-aligned) shows the pasted 'Fetch & install seed.show/xkot0'; below it, a folder card '/tmp/seed-xkot0/' with three file rows (README.md, intro.md, outline.md) — the install result; then the agent's reply (sage-tinted, left-aligned): 'Downloaded /review-draft. You've been asked for feedback.' The argument: install the skill once, then any folder becomes a URL the recipient can paste. By the rest state every element has filled in and the figure reads top to bottom as a single handoff.
Motivation
I love Markdown. Plain text first, structure second; a human eye, a machine pass, respecting both readers. Copy and paste to share. A perfectly portable packet of structured thought.
Markdown has become the language of AI context. OpenClaw built its memory from a handful of markdown files. Karpathy proposes a markdown wiki of your life. Skills are bundles of markdown that teach agents how to do agent things.
Multiple files makes sense for these bundles. They’re designed for agents to edit and maintain; agents work better within a clear structure. They’re just a little harder to share. Zip, upload, unzip.
Context, more broadly, is a spectrum. Two people building common ground in a chat. A small team carrying the same picture of a project. A tribe holding shared lore. A civilisation accumulating a moral constitution it never wrote down. The same dynamics rhyme at every scale; what changes is the texture and the stakes.
Most agent collaboration today sits at the smallest, simplest end of that spectrum: one folder, one prompt, two agents trading. The thing that’s been missing isn’t the bigger end. It’s the small case being good enough that you’d actually use it.
A seed is the small case. A folder, a one-line note, a URL. The recipient agent reads it the way an apprentice reads a sticky note on top of a stack of papers: here’s what’s here, here’s what to do. No metadata schema, no conjugation, no taxonomy. Just the artifact and the intent, addressable at a URL.
There are bigger versions of this idea. Capture-time metadata that lets context age, expire, supersede itself. Selectively-revealed context, where one party holds a layer the other can’t see. Shared lore at the scale of a community or a culture. Worth essays of their own, in time.
For now, the small case. Files plus next action. The half-written sticky note is what carries the work forward; without it the recipient gets a bag of files and has to guess.
Built on fold and portdown, small agent-first bash utilities you can install separately if you’re shipping your own context-shaped thing.