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# COG Second Brain — Cursor Rules
# This is the Cursor-compatible version of CLAUDE.md
# COG: Cognition + Obsidian + Git — a self-evolving agentic second brain
# Inspired by Garry Tan's gstack and gbrain patterns

## Skills

COG exposes 17 skills via `.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md`. Each skill has a `name` and `description` in YAML frontmatter. Use AGENTS.md as the universal command reference.

## Worker Agents

10 agents live in `.claude/agents/`: 6 workers handle data-heavy tasks, 4 read-only verifiers check the result against acceptance criteria by observing the artifact. The lead session handles reasoning and synthesis.

- worker-data-collector: Structured extraction from GitHub, Slack, Jira, Linear
- worker-researcher: Web research with source citations
- worker-file-ops: Vault file operations, metadata, profiles
- worker-executor: Pre-approved mutations (Jira, Linear, APIs)
- worker-publisher: Publishing to Slack, Confluence, Notion
- brief-people-updater: Batch-update people profiles

## Brain-First Protocol

Before answering questions about people, projects, strategy, or decisions:
1. Read relevant notes from `05-knowledge/` first
2. If project-specific, read `04-projects/<project>/`
3. Then synthesize an answer

## Daily Journal

Ambient, not a command. After finishing a meaningful unit of work (shipped or committed something, produced a deliverable, made a decision, hit a blocker), append one entry to `01-daily/journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md` (`date +%F`). Create the file from the template in `.claude/skills/daily-journal/SKILL.md` on the first entry of the day; append only. Skip trivia and scratch work, and do not announce the write.

## Integration Preferences

Check `00-inbox/MY-INTEGRATIONS.md` before using any external integration:
- Active: use normally
- Disabled: skip silently
- Unknown: ask the user

## Vault Structure

```
00-inbox/          — Profiles, interests, integrations
01-daily/          — Briefs and check-ins
02-personal/       — Personal braindumps (private)
03-professional/   — Professional braindumps and strategy
04-projects/       — Per-project tracking
05-knowledge/      — Consolidated insights, people CRM, patterns
06-templates/      — Document templates
```

## Citation Rule

For factual statements in durable notes, include:
`[Source: [[path/to/note]] | YYYY-MM-DD | confidence: high|medium|low]`

## Response Style (ALWAYS APPLY)

Optimize for information gain, not apparent completeness. Start with the answer or strongest finding. Write at 80% ASD-STE100: instructions 20 words max, descriptive sentences 25 words max, paragraphs 6 sentences max, active voice, one term per meaning. When the goal is understanding, prefer a diagram over prose, an HTML page over a diagram, and an explainer video over a page, as the medium allows. Never invent named frameworks, gates, layers, pillars, or numbered taxonomies unless they exist in the source material. Headings name subject matter, never rhetorical function (banned: "Why this matters", "The key insight", "What this is not", "The bottom line"). No straw-man contrasts ("It's not X, it's Y") unless X is a position someone actually holds. Space proportional to importance; every paragraph must add evidence, mechanism, example, implication, or decision. Compose as finding -> evidence -> reasoning -> decision. Stop when useful information is exhausted. Full pattern list: `.claude/skills/no-ai-slop/SKILL.md` § Structural slop.