Liminal

Liminal is a shared workspace for humans, agents, and teams that treats your local file system as the source of record. It's an AI agent workspace in the sense that the agent, not a person, does most of the writing. Instead of asking an agent to push its work through a chat window or a proprietary database, Liminal lets it keep writing files the way it already does, then handles the messy part afterward: rendering those files as clean, readable UI for everyone else on the team.

The problem it targets is real. AI agents now produce a steady stream of briefs, plans, and specs, but each one writes into its own context. Traditional collaboration tools like Notion and Google Docs assume a person is sitting inside the app doing the typing. Liminal flips that assumption. Files live in a folder on your machine, a CLI watches that folder, and anyone you share with opens a browser tab to see the same content. No export step, no copy-paste, no round-trip through an API.

The limitation worth knowing up front is that Liminal is still in open alpha. Team collaboration features are planned but not finished, and pricing for teams hasn't been set. For individuals working solo with an agent, the core loop already works.

Getting Started

1. Install the CLI with npm install -g @justinonthelam/liminal. This is the piece that keeps your local folder and the browser in sync.
2. Run liminal login to connect the CLI to your account, then liminal sync to start watching your workspace folder at ~/Liminal/<workspace>/.
3. Point your agent at the folder. Tell it something like "My Liminal workspace is at ~/Liminal/acme/," and it reads context and writes files there directly.
4. Leave the sync running in a terminal tab. Every file the agent saves appears in the browser as soon as it hits disk.