# Home repo

Concept · [Building with AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai)

Also called: home repository, home base repo, base repo, agent home repo

One [repository](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/repository) that acts as your base for working with [agents](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai-agent). It holds your [skills](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/agent-skills), standing [instructions](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/prompt) and shared notes, and points to your other projects, so every [session](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/session) starts with the same setup.

**For example:** A [solo founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) keeps her investor-update [skill](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/agent-skills), her writing rules and links to her three product [repos](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/repository) in one home repo and starts each [agent session](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/session) there.

## Connects to (5)

- [Repository](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/repository): The folder where a project's code lives, together with the full history of every change made to it.
- [Agent skills](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/agent-skills): A packaged set of instructions, sometimes with scripts, that an agent loads when a task calls for it, such as how to write a press release…
- [AGENTS.md](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/agents-md): A plain text file in a project that many coding agents read automatically at the start of every session.
- [Context pointer](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/context-pointer): A short mention in one document that tells an agent where to find more, such as 'deployment steps are in the deploy guide'.
- [Software factory](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/software-factory): A way of organizing work where events, not people, start agent sessions.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/home-repo