Orion vault — clean initial history

Knowledge vault (Orion/PARA) migrated from the pre-Orion 484vault on
2026-10-01. Deliberately orphaned: prior history contained a plaintext
password and stays local-only on branch archive/pre-boilerplate-history.
Secrets and live Hermes state are gitignored.

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+---
+type: reference
+title: "start here"
+updated: 2026-10-01
+tags:
+  - reference
+---
+
+# Start here
+
+*Which Orion file, when. You only ever need one of these.*
+
+## Right now, what's the status?
+
+→ **[[hot|wiki/hot.md]]** — one screen: what's owed, what's open, what's paused, what's waiting on you. First thing you open in any session.
+
+## I don't remember how this works
+
+→ **[[How this vault works]]** — the commands (`ingest`, `cascade`, `new project:`, `status`, `lint`…) and the three rules. Read once, then use as a cheat sheet.
+
+## You're waiting on me for something?
+
+→ **[[open-questions|wiki/meta/open-questions.md]]** — decisions only you can make, numbered. Answering these is your entire "maintenance" duty.
+
+## Where does a thing / note / project live?
+
+→ **[[index|wiki/index.md]]** — the inventory: every Area, Project, person, decision, one line each.
+
+## Why is the agent doing it *that* way?
+
+→ **[[AGENTS]]** — the rulebook the agent reads every session. Check here to confirm a rule; change rules here. (It should never need explaining twice — if it does, say so and it gets fixed.)
+
+## Starting a fresh agent on this vault?
+
+→ **[[Prompt - Orion Boilerplate]]** — hand this to a new agent / fresh session so it picks up the system the way it was designed.
+
+---
+
+## The daily loop
+
+```
+open:  hot.md  ← where I stand
+work:  drop notes in 0. Inbox/ · ask for things
+end:   say "cascade"  ← agent updates hot, logs, commits
+```
+
+Everything else is reference. If a file isn't in this list, it's the agent's working area — you don't need it.