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Bootstrap A Project

glyph init --json
glyph import . --json
glyph status --json
glyph init creates .glyph/. glyph import . reads the paths allowed by glyph.yaml and stores the initial public graph.

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Start Work

glyph work start docs-update --from public --json

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Claim Work For An Agent

glyph work claim docs-update --actor agent:codex:docs-update --mode exclusive --ttl 30m --json
glyph work heartbeat docs-update --actor agent:codex:docs-update --ttl 30m --json
Claims help multiple agents avoid silently editing the same work context. Heartbeats keep a long-running task alive.

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Read And Write Through Glyph

glyph read docs-update README.md --json
glyph write docs-update README.md --reason "update readme" --json < README.md

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Review And Checkpoint

glyph diff docs-update --json
glyph checkpoint docs-update --message "ready for review" --json
glyph work conflicts docs-update --json

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Publish To A Realm

glyph publish docs-update --to public --mode squash --json
glyph publication list --json
Use --mode squash when the public graph should show one clean publication. Use --mode preserve when the intermediate work history should remain visible.

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Prune The Projection

glyph work prune docs-update --json
Pruning removes the materialized work projection. It does not delete the source graph history.

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Export To GitHub

glyph remote add origin github:OWNER/REPO --mode export-only --json
glyph remote sync origin --json
remote sync exports the public realm to a clean Git repository and pushes it. The .glyph/ store is not part of the exported repository.