Orion/start here.md
Avi a66996ac10 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.
2026-10-02 08:34:48 -05:00

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Start here

Which Orion file, when. You only ever need one of these.

Right now, what's the status?

→ hot — 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 — decisions only you can make, numbered. Answering these is your entire "maintenance" duty.

Where does a thing / note / project live?

→ index — 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.