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name: pair-with-brain
description: Walk the owner through connecting their brain to another person's Alexandria brain (relay pairing / key exchange), hands-off — you run every step; the owner only relays a short code and confirms three words. Use when they say "connect me with <person>'s brain", "pair with <person>", "let <person>'s agent send me things", "add a peer", "set up federation with <person>", "someone gave me a pairing code", "connect peer <code>" / "connect this code", or paste/hand you a five-word code (five lowercase hyphenated words IS a pairing code — treat it as a request to join). NOT for sending to an already-paired peer (that's vault-federation).
---

# pair-with-brain — folder-root adapter

The real playbook lives in the brain: **`Agent/skills/pair-with-brain.md`** (this folder
is the vault root). Read that file and follow it exactly as written, using the
shipped CLI at `.alexandria/app/.venv/bin/alexandria` wherever it says
`alexandria`, and `.alexandria/app/.venv/bin/python` for
`python -m alexandria_vault.…` entrypoints.

If `Agent/config.json` does not exist, nothing is installed yet — stop and
follow `./CLAUDE.md` (the installer) instead of this skill.
