# Open Projects: journal entry (agent view)

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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M46AKZXBASYR66190BATWGTB
title: What the AI should know walking in
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-10-05
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
An AI session always starts cold. It has the graph, but a graph of thousands of claims isn't a briefing. In the ten days after the shared service went live, the project worked on what a fresh session should know when it picks up a piece of work.

## A ship's log for every effort

From 5 April each effort kept a **journal**. After a few days of trying to track sessions automatically, the design was cut back to something simpler: an entry is written once, at the end of a stretch of work, by the AI that did it. That's like a ship's log, filled in at the end of a watch rather than narrated live. The redesign *removed* 321 lines of code.

On 11 April it became a rule: an effort can't be closed without at least one journal entry, or while it still has open sub-efforts.

## Perspectives

On 4 April a design note drew a line that has held ever since:

> The KG stores what's **true**. The perspective stores what's **useful right now**.

A **perspective** is the briefing pack. Think of a new hire's first morning: the company handbook, the department's habits, the project's jargon and pitfalls, then the ticket itself. Perspectives come in the same four layers, and when a session picks up an effort they're merged into one briefing.



Built on 8 April, perspectives soon grew by themselves. When an AI learned something the next AI would trip over, like a hazard, a term or a key file, it could add that to the right layer. From 12 April, sections could be limited to the kinds of work they're relevant to, so a session fixing a laptop's sleep settings doesn't get handed a programming checklist.

## Seeing the work

On 6 April the efforts got a live **dashboard**: a tree of every piece of work, what's blocked on what, a "work on next" list, and a button that opens a terminal with Claude Code already resumed on that effort. The same day an AI got the same power. A managing session could now launch another Claude Code session to work on an effort. By the 7th there was a *Today* view of what moved that day.

## A private shelf

On 12 April the graph got a locked shelf. Personal knowledge is encrypted on the device itself. The passphrase never passes through an AI conversation, a shell history or a running program's arguments: it goes from the person's own terminal straight to the service, or comes back from the system keyring at start-up.

## Open questions

- A briefing pack that grows on its own will eventually grow too big. How much should a fresh session be handed, and what should it fetch only when needed? That question came back in force in October.

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*Drafted by an AI agent from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
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