notrest

Session Harness

Not Rest Inc. · A workshop · v4.6.2 · 32 skills · 11 lifecycle hooks

A workshop on notrest — the session harness for Claude Code and Codex. Sixty slides: the plugin's structure, the seven categories its thirty-two tools fall into, every tool one at a time, and a whole session drawn end to end.

What a session harness is

A session is not a chat. It is a loop that leaves a trail.

   ┌──────────┐     ┌──────────┐     ┌──────────┐
   │  START   │ ──► │   WORK   │ ──► │   STOP   │
   │ (packet) │     │ (gated)  │     │ (banked) │
   └──────────┘     └──────────┘     └──────────┘
        ▲                                  │
        └──────── the next session ────────┘
                 reads what this one wrote

Discipline anchored at the start, laws enforced by hooks, an estate that writes itself, continuity across sessions. Three promises:

It starts knowing — the next session reads what this one wrote.
It cannot break the laws silently — hooks refuse, and say why.
It can die at any minute without losing work — the estate outlives the session.

Two doors

Read Browse the deck All sixty slides, each with its schematic. Straight through, or drop in anywhere. Walk Walk it on the field The workshop as it lives on not.rest — the field carries you through its rings.

Who is teaching

The founder of Not Rest Inc. — a thesis on recurrent neural networks in 2019; most recent degree MIT, Product Design, 2024.

The plugin

The harness itself is open source, MIT-licensed, and readable end to end: github.com/notrestai/notrest. Everything the deck describes — the thirty-two skills, the eleven hooks, the estate files — is in that tree at v4.6.2.