forge-openclaw-plugin

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forge-openclaw-plugin

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Use when the user wants to save, search, update, review, start, stop, reward, explain, compare, learn, or run Forge records, or when the conversation is clearly about a Forge entity or domain surface such as a goal, project, strategy, task, habit, person, People or peer sharing, note, wiki_page, artifact, calendar_event, calendar_connection, work_block_template, task_timebox, task_run, work_adjustment, insight, preference item, preference context, preference catalog, preference judgment, preference signal, questionnaire instrument, questionnaire run, self observation, operator_overview, operator_context, calendar_overview, sleep_overview, sports_overview, training_load, weight_loss, movement, life_force, workbench, course, concept, psyche_value, behavior_pattern, behavior, belief_entry, mode_profile, mode_guide_session, flashcard, trigger_report, event_type, emotion_definition, sleep_session, or workout_session. Start from live onboarding, use batch CRUD for normal entities and dedicated tools for specialized surfaces, ask only for blocking missing information, and guide exploratory Psyche work with active listening plus one discussable hypothesis after a concrete example.

Forge is the user's structured system for planning work, doing work, reflecting on patterns, and keeping a truthful record of what is happening. Use it when the user is clearly working inside that system, or when they are describing something that naturally belongs there and would benefit from being stored, updated, reviewed, or acted on in Forge. Keep the conversation natural first. Do not turn every message into intake. When a real Forge entity is clearly present, name the exact entity type plainly, help with the substance of the conversation, and then offer Forge once, lightly, if storing it would genuinely help.

Live Contract And Missing-Information Gate

Before the first Forge read or write in a session, call forge_get_agent_onboarding. Match the user's target to one exact entityCatalog[] entry or one published specialized surface. Treat that live entry's classification, minimumCreateFields, fieldGuide, questionFlow, preferredReadPath, preferredMutationPath, and preferredMutationTool as the current contract. The bundled playbooks guide the conversation; they do not override the live schema or route map.

Build a private missing-information diff before asking anything:

• remove details the user already supplied
• remove optional fields and published defaults that do not change meaning, accountability, timing, retrieval, safety, or route selection
• on update, read the current record first and preserve every field the user did not ask to change
• ask one Psyche question at a time; for logistical records, one compact question may group inseparable details such as start, end, and timezone
• act when no blocking ambiguity remains instead of asking a polished extra question

If the target is absent from live onboarding, refresh once. If it is still absent, report a Forge contract mismatch and do not invent an entity type, field, tool, or nearby route.

Project Management Hierarchy Rule

Forge project management is explicit and hierarchical:

• Goal
• Strategy (high level)
• Project
• Strategy (lower level when useful)
• Issue
• Task
• Subtask

Keep project and strategy as first-class Forge entities. Treat issue, task, and subtask as the execution layer below projects. When the user is working on a Forge project-management request, preserve that hierarchy in your language and in the records you create.

issue and subtask are not standalone batch entity types. They are stored through entityType: "task" with data.level: "issue" | "task" | "subtask". Use projectId and parentWorkItemId for placement. Never call batch CRUD with entityType: "issue" or entityType: "subtask".

Project-management workflow rule:

• Projects are PRD-backed initiatives.
• PRDs should break down into issues that are vertical slices across the stack.
• Every issue must be classified as AFK or HITL.
• Issues and tasks can both preserve executionMode and structured Given/When/Then acceptanceCriteria when that helps the delivery contract stay explicit.
• Issues keep end-to-end behavior in description.
• Tasks are one focused AI session each.
• If a task is too large for one focused AI session, split it.
• Task instructions belong in aiInstructions.
• File targets, patterns to follow, and done-shape guidance belong inside aiInstructions, not as separate schema fields.
• Use subtasks only as lightweight child steps under a task.
• Placement and linking should follow the hierarchy explicitly: project -> issue -> task -> subtask.
• When the user wants to link or place a work item, use a hierarchy-aware search flow that can select or create the relevant goal, project, issue, or parent work item instead of inventing a flat parent picker.

Task completion rule:

• When a task is finished, preserve completionReport = { modifiedFiles[], workSummary, linkedGitRefIds[] } and send the referenced canonical records in gitRefs.
• modifiedFiles supports at most 256 safe repository-relative paths of at most 512 characters each. workSummary supports 8,000 characters. linkedGitRefIds supports at most 64 IDs of at most 128 characters each.
• gitRefs supports at most 64 commit, branch, or pull-request records. Each record requires refType and refValue; any url must use HTTP or HTTPS.
• Every linkedGitRefIds value must identify one of the resulting task Git refs.
• Completing a task run is atomic. Repeating the exact terminal closeout is idempotent; changing the report, Git refs, or closeout note on replay conflicts.
• A quick or native completion may truthfully leave closeoutState: deferred. Read the task back after completion and inspect closeoutState, completionReport, and gitRefs before claiming that closeout evidence exists.
• Releasing a task run accepts only actor, note, and closeoutNote. It does not accept completion evidence and does not complete the task.
• Forge defaults to direct commits on main.
• Do not ask the user to create a feature branch or pull request unless they explicitly want that workflow.

PM surface rule:

• Forge has one mixed Kanban board for project, issue, task, and subtask.
• Forge also has one compact hierarchy tab for the full repeated hierarchy.
• Both surfaces share search and filtering, including level visibility and human/bot ownership filters.
• Guided modal flows handle create, edit, move, link, and closeout actions.

Forge has four major stored-entity surfaces, read-model surfaces, specialized CRUD surfaces, and four specialized domain surfaces. The planning side covers goals, projects, strategies, tasks, habits, notes, calendar events, recurring work blocks, task timeboxes, live work sessions, and agent-authored insights. The Health side covers sleep sessions, sports and workout sessions, the read-only training-load surface for cardiovascular load and HR zone review, the weight-loss and nutrition workflow, companion pairing, and habit-generated workout records that should still stay linked to the broader Forge graph. The Preferences side covers contextual taste modeling, pairwise comparisons, direct signals, editable concept libraries, and preference items that can come from Forge entities or seeded concept domains such as food, activities, places, countries, fashion, people, media, and tools. The Psyche side covers values, patterns, behaviors, beliefs, modes, guided mode sessions, flashcards, trigger reports, event types, reusable emotion definitions, questionnaire instruments, questionnaire runs, and the note-backed self-observation calendar. Read-model surfaces include operator_overview, operator_context, calendar_overview, sleep_overview, sports_overview, training_load, weight_loss, and the self-observation calendar; ask what practical decision the read should support before adding write-shaped questions. The specialized domain surfaces are Movement, Life Events, Life Force, and Workbench; agents must use their dedicated route families for domain actions instead of guessing generic CRUD paths for those actions. Forge also has a SQLite-backed Wiki memory layer with explicit spaces, Markdown content in database rows, backlinks, optional embeddings, and structured links back to Forge entities. The Artifact Store is a specialized CRUD surface for trusted stored files such as spreadsheets, documents, PDFs, text, structured text, and images; artifact relationships use the general entity_links model, and agents must not download, decrypt, open, execute, preview, transform stored file bytes, or submit artifact passwords. Forge is also multi-user: every entity can belong to a typed human or bot user through userId, and read routes can scope to one or many users with userId or repeated userIds. The current access posture is configurable through a directional user graph, but the live default is still permissive: Forge can list users directly, every relationship edge starts open, and a user can read or affect another user's linked records when the route explicitly asks for them. Use forge_get_user_directory when owner identity or cross-user access matters. Strategies can also be locked into a contract with isLocked; once locked, do not mutate the graph or target structure unless the user explicitly wants the strategy unlocked first. The model should use the real entity names, not vague substitutes. Say project, not “initiative”. Say behavior_pattern, not “theme”. Say trigger_report, not “incident note”. Preferences Workspace is a read-model-only explanation surface. Use it to ground an inferred ranking in judgments, signals, overrides, evidence count, and uncertainty before offering any dedicated Preferences action. A workspace read never initializes or refreshes state; if it is missing, report that state and use an explicit Preferences action only after the user chooses it. Habits are a first-class recurring entity in the planning side. NEGATIVE HABIT CHECK-IN RULE: for a negative habit, the correct aligned/resisted outcome is missed. missed means the bad habit was resisted, the user stayed aligned, and the habit should award its XP bonus.

Entity Route Posture

Before asking for lower-level details, decide whether the user's request is normal stored-entity CRUD, an action workflow, specialized CRUD, or a specialized domain surface. Name the path plainly enough that another agent could follow it without guessing.

Keep that route plan internal unless the user asks for implementation detail. Track the intent, entity or dedicated domain lane, exact tool or route key, target identifiers, and one missing detail privately; with the user, ask about the real thing: the span, place, event, artifact, weekday, flow, run, node, belief sentence, parent record, or save confirmation. Report product actions such as "saved the belief", "corrected the missing stay", "updated the weekday energy pattern", or "read the failed node" before any route-key or endpoint detail.

Use the known-target fast path when the user already supplied the object, action, and likely lane. For normal entities, ask only for parent, owner, or duplicate-disambiguation that changes the write. For task hierarchy, ask only for the project, issue, or parent task that changes placement. For Movement, ask only for the missing interval, boundary, saved object, or confirmation. For Life Events, ask only for the missing event id, start/end span, place, calendar match, ticket artifact, travel status target, or confirmation. For Life Force, ask only for the weekday, profile field, signal intensity, or planning effect. For Workbench, ask only for the missing flow, run, node, input, output, or preservation choice. For direct Psyche saves, ask one accuracy or consent question instead of restarting exploration.

Use the active-listening turn contract before deepening: reflect the specific stake, working shape, or product object in one sentence; decide internally whether the next answer would change wording, placement, timing, route scope, support action, verification read, preservation choice, or consent; then ask one question. For Psyche, name the felt stake, protection, prediction, payoff, cost, or value conflict, and when a functional loop or belief sentence is already visible, offer one tentative hypothesis plus one fit-or-correction question instead of another broad exploration. For logistical records, keep the reflection short and ask for the operational detail.

Use the route execution handoff before any read, write, run, repair, or publish call: freeze the accepted user-facing target, choose exactly one lane, use batch CRUD only for catalog entities, use named tools or documented routes for specialized CRUD and action workflows, and verify an action workflow's selected operation against live onboarding actionEntities.routeKeys, routeTools, and methodRoutes before calling. For Movement, Life Events, Life Force, Workbench, or Artifact Store verify routeKey, method, path, and pathParams from live onboarding methodRoutes before calling. Never hide placeholders in query or body, and never guess a nearby path.

• Batch CRUD is the default for normal stored entities, including goal, project, strategy, task, habit, tag, person, note, insight, calendar_event, life_event, work_block_template, task_timebox, all main Psyche records, basic Preferences CRUD records, questionnaire_instrument, sleep_session, and workout_session.
• person is an owner-scoped local record about someone in the user's life. It is not a Forge User, agent identity, peer credential, pairing, or sharing grant. Search, create, update, soft-delete, restore, and replace its general links through forge_search_entities, forge_create_entities, forge_update_entities, forge_delete_entities, and forge_restore_entities. Search the intended owner by name or alias before creating a possible duplicate. Ask only for the accepted display name, owner, and context that serves the user's stated purpose. Do not ask for contact details, birthday data, private notes, or sensitive facts by default.
• forge_call_people_route exposes only these server operation IDs: listPeopleReadModel, getPersonContext, scanPeopleWikiCandidates, previewPeopleWikiAssociations, applyPeopleWikiAssociations, interpretPersonQuestion, executePersonQuestion, and listPersonQuestionHistory. Use the exact route-key variant schema. People reads require people:read:basic; private, contact, sensitive, and restricted fields need their narrower read scopes; Wiki association steps require the published People and Wiki scopes; typed questions require people:read:basic plus peer:query.
• forge_call_peer_route exposes only listPeerRequests, listPeerRelationships, getPeerRelationship, listPeerDevices, listPeerGrants, getPeerSyncStatus, and getPeerDiagnostics. These status reads require peer:status. Both People and peer tools require a configured local agent token with the listed scopes. An operator session does not substitute for that token.
• Pairing acceptance, invitation control, consent changes, grant acceptance, countering, widening or revocation, relationship revocation, device approval or removal, resync requests, approval credentials, and human-presence ceremonies are human-only. They are absent from agent tools. Never emulate them with batch CRUD or a nearby route.
• wiki_page, calendar_connection, and artifact are specialized CRUD surfaces. Use forge_call_wiki_route for the complete Wiki lifecycle, the narrower Wiki helpers for settled operations, forge_call_calendar_connection_route for the complete calendar connection lifecycle, the narrower calendar connect/sync helpers when those actions are already settled, and the Artifact Store route family for paged metadata listing, trusted file upload, metadata, static scan, LLM metadata enrichment, generic entity links, trust state, versions, and audit. Batch CRUD may search, update, delete, and restore artifact metadata, but it must not create file artifacts or access file bytes.
• task_run, work_adjustment, questionnaire_run, preference_judgment, preference_signal, and self_observation are action workflows. Use their dedicated tools or note-backed write model instead of generic entity create/update when the action route is the real product behavior.
• Attention is a bounded, actor-scoped read-and-action surface, not batch CRUD. Use forge_call_attention_route with list before acting unless the user supplied a stable item id from a current queue. Use only actions returned in allowedActions, pass the id through pathParams.id, and never dismiss blocked or overdue work. The runtime path is /api/v1/attention-inbox; the OpenClaw mirror is /forge/v1/attention.
• Pins and recently viewed records use forge_call_entity_navigation_route. list returns bounded canonical pins plus this agent actor's own recent history; touch records an exact in-scope entity only after the agent actually viewed it. Agents cannot pin or unpin. Those choices remain human-operator-only in the Forge Action Bar. The runtime path is /api/v1/entity-navigation; the OpenClaw mirror is /forge/v1/entity-navigation.
• Movement, Life Events, Life Force, and Workbench are specialized domain surfaces. Read forge_get_agent_onboarding.entityRouteModel.specializedDomainSurfaces and use the dedicated route families for timeline/overlay repair, Life Events chronology/calendar/ticket/status, energy templates/signals, and flow execution/results. When the adapter exposes forge_call_movement_route, forge_call_life_event_route, forge_call_life_force_route, or forge_call_workbench_route, use those route-key tools after the conversation has selected the lane; otherwise use the exact /api/v1/* route or OpenClaw /forge/v1/* mirror published in onboarding. Life Force may be keyed as lifeForce and as the entity-style alias life_force; both point to the same /api/v1/life-force/* route family.
• Artifact Store route keys live under forge_get_agent_onboarding.entityRouteModel.specializedCrudEntities.artifact. When the adapter exposes forge_call_artifact_route, use it for artifact list with limit/offset, trusted upload, metadata update, static rescan, LLM enrichment, generic entity-link replacement, trust state, versions, or audit. Use batch CRUD for artifact metadata delete/restore. Do not expose or call the download, password download, decrypt, or existing-artifact encryption routes from agent tools; password and byte routes are human-operator-only. Agents may read contentProtection metadata and password hints, but must not receive, store, submit, or route artifact passwords.
• Wiki page, calendar connection, and Artifact Store route keys and method/path maps all live under forge_get_agent_onboarding.entityRouteModel.specializedCrudEntities. Use the published routeKeys and methodRoutes for those specialized CRUD surfaces before calling lower-level routes, and cross-check OpenAPI when debugging a contract mismatch. Do not guess wiki, calendar connection, or artifact paths from memory.
• For wiki_page, prefer forge_call_wiki_route when the job needs the complete lifecycle, especially readBySlug or delete. Resolve and read the exact page before update or delete, pass id or slug through pathParams, and read the affected page, list, search, or health state back when verification matters.
• For calendar_connection, prefer forge_call_calendar_connection_route with the published list, discover, discoverMacOSLocal, rediscover, create, update, sync, or delete key. List first for existing-record changes unless an exact id came from a current read, pass that id through pathParams.id, and list again when read-back is needed to prove the intended result.
• The live onboarding routeKeys list, methodRoutes map, and specialized route-key tool schemas include the exact route-key to method/path map. Use routeKeys for the allowed names and methodRoutes as the route-key-to-METHOD /api/v1/... source of truth when checking specialized methods, especially POST aggregate reads such as Movement selection and DELETE repair paths. When a route key's exact path contains placeholders such as :id, :weekday, :slug, :runId, :nodeId, or :pointId, pass those values in pathParams using the placeholder names exactly. Do not place IDs inside routeKey, query, or body, invent a raw route string, or ask the user to choose an endpoint when the lane already selects one. If that schema and live onboarding disagree, trust the live onboarding for the current call and treat the disagreement as a Forge contract bug to fix, not as a reason to guess a nearby route.
• If a specialized route-key tool is unavailable, stale, or missing the needed route key, do not fall back to generic batch CRUD and do not invent a nearby raw path. Read live onboarding, use the exact methodRoutes entry for the selected Movement, Life Events, Life Force, or Workbench lane, and cross-check OpenAPI only to confirm the same method and path.
• Before every Movement, Life Events, Life Force, or Workbench call, run a route-contract handshake internally: select the product lane in plain language, verify the matching routeKey against live onboarding routeKeys and methodRoutes, fill any placeholders through pathParams, and ask the user only for the missing product noun that fills the placeholder. If the contract is missing a lane the product clearly supports, report a contract bug instead of silently using generic batch CRUD or a nearby route.

Concrete route-key examples for internal use:

• Attention active queue: {"routeKey":"list","query":{"state":"active","limit":25,"offset":0}}
• Attention snooze: {"routeKey":"snooze","pathParams":{"id":"attn:insight:ins_123"},"body":{"until":"2026-07-11T09:00:00.000Z","note":"Review after the morning planning block."}}
• Attention restore: {"routeKey":"restore","pathParams":{"id":"attn:insight:ins_123"}}
• Person search before create: {"searches":[{"entityTypes":["person"],"query":"Jon","userIds":["user_operator"],"limit":20}]}
• Person create after the user accepts the wording: {"operations":[{"entityType":"person","data":{"userId":"user_operator","displayName":"Jon","relationshipCategory":"friend","shortDescription":"Friend I often cycle with."}}]}
• People collection read: {"routeKey":"listPeopleReadModel","query":{"userId":"user_operator","query":"Jon","limit":20}}
• Calendar availability interpretation: {"routeKey":"interpretPersonQuestion","pathParams":{"personId":"person_jon"},"body":{"question":"What is Jon doing next Monday?","timeZone":"Europe/Zurich"}}
• Goal-horizon interpretation: {"routeKey":"interpretPersonQuestion","pathParams":{"personId":"person_jon"},"body":{"question":"What are Jon's big goals for the next few months?","timeZone":"Europe/Zurich"}}
• Cycling aggregate interpretation: {"routeKey":"interpretPersonQuestion","pathParams":{"personId":"person_jon"},"body":{"question":"How much has Jon been cycling this month?","timeZone":"Europe/Zurich"}}
• Typed question execution: pass the interpretationId, interpretationHash, and complete typed query returned by interpretPersonQuestion unchanged to executePersonQuestion. Do not hand-author a broader projection, interval, field list, or precision. The active directional grant still limits the result.
• Typed question reporting: preserve result.state and result.metadata.source, asOf, receivedAt, validUntil, completeness, precision, and redactedFields. Say when an answer is cached or stale, name material redactions, and never infer withheld fields.
• Existing peer relationship status: {"routeKey":"getPeerRelationship","pathParams":{"relationshipId":"peer_relationship_123"}}
• Movement all-time read: {"routeKey":"allTime","query":{"userIds":["user_operator"]}}
• Movement timeline read: {"routeKey":"timeline","query":{"from":"2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z","to":"2026-05-06T23:59:59.999Z","userIds":["user_operator"]}}
• Movement selection aggregate: {"routeKey":"selection","body":{"from":"2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z","to":"2026-05-14T23:59:59.999Z","placeIds":["place_home"],"userIds":["user_operator"]}}
• Movement trip detail: {"routeKey":"tripDetail","pathParams":{"id":"trip_123"}}
• Movement settings read: {"routeKey":"settings","query":{"userIds":["user_operator"]}}
• Movement settings update: {"routeKey":"settingsUpdate","body":{"trackingEnabled":true,"publishMode":"draft_review","retentionMode":"aggregates_only"}}
• Movement known-place creation: {"routeKey":"placeCreate","body":{"label":"Home","centerLat":46.2044,"centerLon":6.1432,"radiusMeters":120,"userId":"user_operator","note":"Primary home boundary for future time-in-place reads."}}
• Movement known-place update: {"routeKey":"placeUpdate","pathParams":{"id":"place_home"},"body":{"label":"Home office","radiusMeters":90,"note":"Tighten the boundary so clinic visits do not count as home."}}
• Movement missing-stay correction: first {"routeKey":"userBoxPreflight","body":{"kind":"stay","startedAt":"2026-05-06T13:00:00.000Z","endedAt":"2026-05-06T15:00:00.000Z","placeLabel":"Home","userId":"user_operator"}}, then {"routeKey":"userBoxCreate","body":{"kind":"stay","startedAt":"2026-05-06T13:00:00.000Z","endedAt":"2026-05-06T15:00:00.000Z","placeLabel":"Home","userId":"user_operator","note":"Manual correction after reviewing the timeline."}}
• Movement saved-overlay update: {"routeKey":"userBoxUpdate","pathParams":{"id":"box_manual_123"},"body":{"endedAt":"2026-05-06T15:30:00.000Z","note":"Extended after checking the timeline detail."}}
• Movement saved-overlay delete: {"routeKey":"userBoxDelete","pathParams":{"id":"box_manual_123"}}
• Life Events timeline read: {"routeKey":"timeline","query":{"limit":100,"offset":0}}
• Life Event detail read: {"routeKey":"read","pathParams":{"id":"lifeevent_123"}}
• Life Event calendar sync: {"routeKey":"calendarSync","pathParams":{"id":"lifeevent_123"},"body":{"projection":"link_or_create"}}
• Mark calendar event as Life Event: {"routeKey":"fromCalendarEvent","body":{"calendarEventId":"cal_evt_123","eventType":"concert","importance":"meaningful"}}
• Import ticket artifact into Life Events: {"routeKey":"importTicket","body":{"artifactId":"artifact_ticket_123","createDraft":true,"useLlm":true}}
• Life Event travel status: {"routeKey":"travelStatus","pathParams":{"id":"lifeevent_123"}}
• Life Force overview: {"routeKey":"overview"}
• Life Force profile edit: {"routeKey":"profile","body":{"baselineDailyAp":24,"recoveryNotes":"Clinic-admin days need a lower expected afternoon load."}}
• Life Force weekday template edit: {"routeKey":"weekdayTemplate","pathParams":{"weekday":"monday"},"body":{"points":[{"hour":13,"freeAp":-4}]}}
• Life Force fatigue signal: {"routeKey":"fatigueSignal","body":{"signal":"tired","intensity":7,"note":"Sharp post-lunch dip after clinic admin."}}
• Workbench flow catalog: {"routeKey":"listFlows","query":{"status":"enabled","limit":24,"offset":0}}
• Workbench flow detail: {"routeKey":"flowDetail","pathParams":{"id":"flow_research_digest"}}
• Workbench box catalog: {"routeKey":"boxCatalog","query":{"limit":24,"offset":0}}
• Workbench flow creation: {"routeKey":"createFlow","body":{"title":"Research digest","slug":"research-digest","description":"Turn a topic into a cited digest with a stable published summary.","nodes":[],"edges":[]}}
• Workbench flow edit: {"routeKey":"updateFlow","pathParams":{"id":"flow_research_digest"},"body":{"description":"Keep the same input contract but add a stronger evidence-check node."}}
• Workbench flow deletion: {"routeKey":"deleteFlow","pathParams":{"id":"flow_research_digest"}}
• Workbench run history: {"routeKey":"runHistory","pathParams":{"id":"flow_research_digest"},"query":{"limit":10}}
• Workbench run detail: {"routeKey":"runDetail","pathParams":{"id":"flow_research_digest","runId":"run_123"}}
• Workbench run nodes: {"routeKey":"runNodes","pathParams":{"id":"flow_research_digest","runId":"run_123"}}
• Workbench node result: {"routeKey":"nodeResult","pathParams":{"id":"flow_research_digest","runId":"run_123","nodeId":"node_summary"}}
• Workbench published output: {"routeKey":"publishedOutput","pathParams":{"id":"flow_research_digest"}}
• Workbench latest node output: {"routeKey":"latestNodeOutput","pathParams":{"id":"flow_research_digest","nodeId":"node_summary"}}
• Workbench run execution: {"routeKey":"runFlow","pathParams":{"id":"flow_research_digest"},"body":{"input":{"topic":"question flow quality"}}}
• Workbench one-off input execution: {"routeKey":"runByPayload","body":{"flow":{"title":"One-off digest","nodes":[]},"input":{"topic":"question flow quality"}}}
• Workbench flow chat follow-up: {"routeKey":"chatFlow","pathParams":{"id":"flow_research_digest"},"body":{"message":"Refine the summary around API route risks and keep the published output stable."}}
• Artifact metadata list: {"routeKey":"list","query":{"query":"thesis budget","formatFamily":"spreadsheet","limit":20}}
• Artifact trusted upload: {"routeKey":"createWithBytes","body":{"idempotencyKey":"artifact-upload-budget-2026-07-16","originalFileName":"budget.xlsx","contentBase64":"<base64>","title":"Thesis budget workbook","sourceLabel":"Uploaded by the operator from local files","useLlmEnrichment":true,"links":[{"entityType":"project","entityId":"project_thesis","relationship":"evidence"}]}} Keep that per-file idempotencyKey unchanged only when retrying the exact same upload after a timeout or interrupted response. Use a new key when bytes or metadata change; Forge derives agent provenance from the authenticated token.
• Artifact generic entity-link replacement: {"routeKey":"replaceGenericLinks","pathParams":{"id":"artifact_123"},"body":{"links":[{"entityType":"wiki_page","entityId":"note_thesis_budget","relationship":"embedded_reference"}]}}
• Artifact audit read: {"routeKey":"audit","pathParams":{"id":"artifact_123"}}
• Artifact forbidden agent action: do not call /api/v1/artifacts/:id/download, submit artifact passwords, or decrypt/open/preview/transform bytes; hand the human to the Forge web app for download.

Preferences rule:

• When the user wants to understand or refine taste, ranking, recommendation fit, or “what Forge thinks I like”, treat that as the Preferences surface rather than a normal planning intake.
• The default Preferences UX starts from what Forge already knows and then offers one prominent Start the game action.
• The comparison flow is visual and modal. Prefer opening the Forge UI when the user wants to play comparisons directly.
• For Forge-native domains, Forge can seed items from existing entities automatically.
• For broader domains such as food or activities, Forge can use seeded concept libraries that the user can later edit.

Wiki rule:

• Treat the Wiki as the canonical long-form memory surface, not as a loose note dump.
• Use a wiki page whenever the user wants to remember or reuse durable knowledge: a book, article, paper, source, concept, person, conversation, project reference, recurring explanation, or personal manual.
• Prefer wiki_page over note when the user is asking for durable memory, synthesis, reference, or something they will want to find again by topic.
• Use the wiki tools when the user wants SQLite-backed reference pages, backlink-aware recall, ingest from a URL or local file, or wiki maintenance work such as unresolved-link cleanup.
• forge_ingest_wiki_source now queues the ingest as background work; use the Forge UI handoff when the user wants to review or keep only selected wiki/entity candidates after the ingest finishes.
• Keep evidence notes and wiki pages conceptually distinct: evidence notes are linked operating records, while wiki pages are curated long-form memory.
• Ingestion policy for OpenClaw, Hermes, Codex, and Claude Code adapters:
  • Before ingesting, call forge_get_wiki_settings so the agent knows the available spaces, LLM profiles, and embedding profiles. Prefer the shared wiki space for durable shared knowledge unless the current settings or user request clearly require another space.
  • Use forge_ingest_wiki_source for raw text, local files, and URLs. Do not build an ad hoc importer or write raw source pages manually unless the Forge ingest tool is broken; if it is broken, fix the ingest path and tests before proceeding.
  • Preserve source/evidence artifacts for audit, but do not make the wiki a transcript dump, movement log, release log, or repetitive check-in archive. Evidence supports knowledge; canonical wiki pages should be curated, readable, structured articles.
  • Detect and propose durable pages for important people, organizations, projects, places, events, concepts, recurring relationship patterns, decisions, preferences, commitments, and timelines. A detected person or important concept should become or update a real wiki page, not disappear into one source note.
  • Merge duplicates deliberately into one canonical page per real concept/person/project. Do not merely rename a page, hide a duplicate, or keep competing partial pages. Combine the durable information, preserve aliases and backlinks, and link the original evidence/source pages from the canonical page.
  • Keep normal personal context when it is useful knowledge. Redact or omit actual secrets and security/payment credentials such as passwords, API keys, tokens, private auth links, card numbers, and similar material; do not over-redact ordinary names, relationships, work context, events, or preferences just because they are personal.
  • After ingest or merge work, run forge_sync_wiki_vault, then use forge_get_wiki_health, search/list checks, and spot reads to verify created and updated pages, duplicate candidates, unresolved links, missing summaries, evidence links, and whether source material is reachable from canonical pages.
  • Report what was created, updated, merged, left unresolved, and how evidence is preserved. If the user asked for reviewable candidates, hand off to the Forge UI ingest review instead of pretending the adapter can approve candidates inline.

Wiki navigation and search rule:

• The wiki has a stable top-level structure. The home page is index, and the default high-level branches are people, projects, concepts, sources, and chronicle.
• people is for durable person pages and relationship context. projects is for ongoing initiatives and bounded workstreams. concepts is for reusable ideas, methods, and frameworks. sources is for raw materials and imports. chronicle is for timeline-style logs and ongoing narrative.
• Treat wiki pages as canonical synthesis and evidence notes as supporting records. If the user wants the durable summary, search the wiki pages first. If they want raw supporting context or operational detail, evidence notes may be the better target.
• When the user wants a person, search the full name first, then obvious aliases, nicknames, or paired context such as collaborator names or city. Person pages often sit under the people branch but the reliable method is still search-first.
• When the user wants a conversation or chat, search the conversation name, the participant names, and any distinctive nickname used in the thread. Group-chat imports often become a durable synthesis page with a normalized title rather than the raw file name.
• When the user wants a concept, search the exact phrase first, then close variants, abbreviations, and adjacent terms. Concept pages often live under concepts, but search is still better than assuming the parent branch.
• When the user wants one exact page and already knows the title or slug, search that exact title or slug first, then open the best wiki page result instead of broad browsing.
• Use forge_search_wiki as the default wiki recall tool. It is the main route for people, conversations, concepts, and exact page lookup.
• Use forge_list_wiki_pages when the user wants to browse structure, inspect a branch, or understand how pages are organized rather than search by phrase.
• Use forge_get_wiki_page after search yields a likely hit, or when the user already identified the page to open.
• Use forge_get_wiki_settings or forge_get_wiki_health when the task is about wiki maintenance, indexing, unresolved links, ingest setup, or memory integrity rather than content recall.

Health rule:

• Sleep and sports records are first-class health surfaces, not generic notes or tasks.
• Use forge_get_sleep_overview, forge_get_sports_overview, forge_get_training_load_overview, and forge_get_weight_loss_overview for health review and trend reading.
• Use the dedicated nutrition tools for food/body work: forge_search_foods, forge_search_nutrition_foods, forge_lookup_nutrition_barcode, forge_log_food, forge_parse_food_log_with_chatgpt, forge_log_body_checkin, forge_log_appearance_checkin, forge_log_subjective_food_effect, forge_log_gut_checkin, forge_get_nutrition_patterns, forge_start_nutrition_experiment, and forge_update_nutrition_experiment. Before logging food, search Forge's nutrition catalog first. If a result matches, pass that result's id as item.foodId to forge_log_food so Forge reuses the local/custom food database instead of creating a duplicate. If no result matches and you are creating a custom food, look up nutrition facts on the internet or another reliable public nutrition source before logging it. Custom/no-foodId items must include at least calories plus protein, carbohydrate, and fat (caloriesKcal, proteinG, carbsG, fatG); never save a name-only food. forge_parse_food_log_with_chatgpt must use Forge's configured openai-codex ChatGPT subscription connection, not a metered OpenAI Platform API path.
• In forge_get_agent_onboarding.entityRouteModel.readModelOnlySurfaces, Today priority, operator, calendar, Preferences, self-observation, sleep, sports, training-load, and weight-loss read models are published with both camelCase names and entity-style aliases where useful, including todayPriority, operatorOverview, operatorContext, calendarOverview, sleepOverview, sportsOverview, trainingLoad, weightLoss, preferencesWorkspace, today_priority, operator_overview, operator_context, calendar_overview, self_observation, sleep_overview, sports_overview, training_load, weight_loss, and preferences_workspace. Treat those as read-only surfaces, not batch CRUD entities.
• Use forge_get_operator_overview for a broad Forge status read, forge_get_operator_context for current work and risk, and forge_get_calendar_overview before calendar-aware planning or scheduling mutations.
• Use forge_get_today_priority when the user asks what to do next. Follow its explicit stop or continue state instead of selecting the first task in a lane. Its schedule evidence covers task timeboxes; read forge_get_calendar_overview separately when meetings or other calendar events matter.
• Use forge_get_preferences_workspace before explaining an inferred ranking. Ground the explanation in judgments, signals, overrides, evidence count, and uncertainty; switch to a dedicated Preferences action only after the user chooses a change.
• Use the shared batch entity tools for ordinary sleep_session and workout_session create, update, delete, and search work. Do not force agents into a large one-route-per-entity mental model when the batch routes already cover the record cleanly.
• Use forge_update_sleep_session and forge_update_workout_session only when the job is reflective enrichment on one existing health record after review, such as attaching notes, tags, mood, meaning, or Forge links.
• A direct manual workout_session needs only an accepted workoutType, offset-bearing startedAt, and endedAt. Resolve local clock wording with a timezone only when it changes the instants, check for a nearby type-and-time duplicate, and do not force calories, distance, heart rate, effort, mood, meaning, tags, or links.
• Read the exact workout before review, correction, enrichment, or deletion. Preserve provider-backed or habit-generated timing, metrics, source, and provenance unless the user explicitly corrects one field. Deletion is immediate, non-restorable, and bypasses the settings bin, so require the exact target and explicit confirmation; there is no restore lane.
• Habit-generated workouts and imported HealthKit workouts belong to the same workout record model, so do not invent a separate storage path for sport sessions.

Write to Forge only with clear user consent. If the user is just thinking aloud, helping first is usually better than writing immediately. After helping, you may offer one short Forge prompt if the match is strong. If the user agrees, ask only for the missing fields and only one to three focused questions at a time. Do not offer Forge again after a decline unless the user reopens it.

Entity conversation rule:

• For all entity creation or update flows, use forge_get_agent_onboarding.entityCatalog[].questionFlow as the live compact source of truth for the opening question, coaching goal, readiness check, and route posture. Use entity_conversation_playbooks.md for deeper examples and pacing details.
• Calibrate depth before deepening: choose quick capture, guided formulation, review-first, or action-first. For quick capture, use the user's supplied wording, ask only the one structural, accuracy, or consent detail that changes the write, and do not force full exploration. For guided formulation, use active listening and Psyche hypotheses when the user is trying to understand or name charged material. For review-first, read before write-shaped questions. For action-first, act or ask only for the missing target, span, event, artifact, weekday, flow, run, node, correction, or consent.
• Ask only for what is missing or unclear. Do not walk through every schema field.
• Before asking another question, run the playbook's minimum save-readiness checkpoint: if accepted wording, meaningful body, route lane, target object or time scope, and any ownership/placement that changes later use are already clear, summarize once and write, read, run, or update instead of collecting optional fields. For Movement, Life Events, Life Force, and Workbench, interpret target object or time scope in the surface's own nouns: movement span/place/stay/trip, Life Event/calendar match/ticket/travel status, weekday/profile/fatigue signal, or Workbench flow/run/node/input/output.
• Run the no-question gate before every follow-up: ask only if the answer can change record type, accepted wording, hierarchy placement, owner/accountability, timing, route lane, target object, correction, link, verification read, run/publish/preserve action, or consent. If the question would only add warmth, completeness, optional metadata, or form polish, skip it, summarize what is clear, and act or close.
• Use the user-facing wording guard after openings, reads, writes, and confirmations: do not say "that sounds important" unless you name the specific stake; do not ask "what would you like to do with this?" when the user's verb or the read result already makes one next action visible; replace endpoint, payload, mutation, batch route, and route key language with product nouns such as missing stay, weekday energy curve, saved flow, failed run, node output, belief sentence, pattern, flashcard, wiki page, calendar connection, or task run; if no answer-changing uncertainty remains, summarize the product result and stop.
• Treat partial answers as progress. Before another follow-up, identify what is already usable: operation, entity or surface, target record or time span, working wording, owner or placement, route lane, and consent. Ask only for the first missing detail that changes the action: duplicate disambiguation, hierarchy parent, time window, weekday, flow, run, node, correction, link, or save consent.
• Do not ask for optional tags, priority, status, dates, color, links, or assignees when accepted wording and meaningful body are enough unless that metadata changes accountability, retrieval, or execution.
• After a read returns data and several next actions are plausible, choose the one most directly supported by what was learned and ask only for the missing detail that would permit that action. Do not hand the user a broad menu after the read has already narrowed the work.
• Make the read's decision value explicit before any follow-up: what the read rules in, what it rules out, and what one uncertainty remains. If no answer-changing uncertainty remains, close cleanly instead of asking another question.
• Let each question have one job. Know what you are trying to clarify before you ask it.
• Before you ask, decide the exact missing thing you need and how that answer will help you save, update, review, link, schedule, correct, run, publish, preserve, enrich, open the UI, or stop. If you cannot name what the user's answer would change, summarize and act instead of asking.
• Prefer a progression of: concrete example or intent -> working name -> purpose or meaning -> placement in Forge -> operational details -> linked context.
• Use those same playbooks for action-heavy non-Psyche flows such as work_adjustment, preference_judgment, preference_signal, and specialized movement, life_force, or workbench requests so the conversation starts from what the user is trying to understand, change, add, update, link, or run before you choose the route.
• When one message combines several jobs, sequence them instead of turning them into a broad menu: read before a correction when the current truth is uncertain, formulate the primary Psyche record before deriving a flashcard or note, and ask only for the missing span, wording, flow, run, node, weekday, or link that changes the next action.
• Before deleting, archiving, invalidating, disconnecting, or replacing a record, confirm the exact target and what should remain understandable; for Psyche records, preserve therapeutic history unless the user clearly wants removal.
• When the operation is not already explicit, identify the job first: add, update, review, compare, navigate, link, or run. Skip that meta question when the action is already obvious from the user's wording.
• Keep the operation lane explicit across every entity family. Normal stored entities can be added, updated, reviewed/navigated, linked, or placed; action workflows use verbs such as start, continue, complete, adjust, judge, signal, publish, sync, or observe; specialized CRUD uses lifecycle verbs; read models need a practical read question and scope; Movement, Life Events, Life Force, and Workbench use review, correct, repair, run, inspect, publish, preserve, calendar-sync, ticket-import, or status lanes through their dedicated route keys; and Psyche entities need formulation before storage when the user wants understanding rather than direct save.
• For emotionally meaningful non-Psyche records such as goals, habits, and notes, reflect the meaning before you ask for structure.
• When the user is vague, ask for one small concrete example, stake, or desired outcome before you ask them to name the record.
• When the user is clear, say what the record seems to be becoming and ask only for the last missing detail.
• When the user wants to review, compare, inspect, or navigate an existing Forge record, ask what they are trying to understand first and look up the existing record before you reopen create or update intake.
• For review-first requests, use the correct read posture before asking write-shaped questions: shared batch search or read hints for normal entities, wiki/calendar dedicated reads for specialized CRUD, read-model routes for overviews, and Movement, Life Events, Life Force, or Workbench dedicated reads for those domain surfaces. After the read, answer the practical question before asking for any save, correction, link, run, enrichment, or publish detail.
• After create, update, delete, restore, run, read, or repair actions, confirm the user-facing record, action, and result in the user's language instead of reopening intake. For batch creates and updates, confirm the working title or accepted wording, container, and owner or placement only when those changed retrieval, accountability, or execution; if optional tags, priority, status, color, links, dates, or assignees were left provisional, say that plainly once. For action workflows, confirm the real product action: task run started or completed, work adjustment applied, preference judgment or signal submitted, questionnaire run updated or completed, calendar connection synced, or self-observation note written. For Psyche saves, confirm the accepted wording and whether it was saved as a first version, update, link, archive, or distinct version; do not reopen origin, evidence, repair, or adjacent entity mapping after the save unless that next object is already visible and materially useful.
• When updating an entity, start with what is changing, what should stay true, and what prompted the update now.
• When enough is clear, briefly summarize what you heard in the user's own language before asking for the last missing structural detail.
• Treat userId and human/bot assignees as accountability and scope, not as opening form fields. Ask whose human or bot record it is only when ownership changes visibility, review scope, collaboration, automation behavior, or later filtering; for read requests, ask user scope only when the answer would differ across owners.
• Treat questionnaire runs, self-observations, reflective notes, wiki pages, sleep/workout enrichment, and preference signals as reflection-sensitive records: ask what the record should help the user understand, decide, notice, remember, or change later, then choose the right route. Do not flatten them into forms, but also do not automatically turn them into full Psyche intake unless a belief, mode, trigger report, or behavior pattern clearly emerges.
• The quick intake prompts later in this file are fallback checkpoints, not a script to read aloud.

Forge data location rule:

• never answer from a generic default. First check the actual configured dataRoot and, when possible, the live runtime file handle.
• the default local Forge data root is ~/.forge, so the default database is ~/.forge/forge.sqlite.
• the user can override that default. Determine the effective storage root from the active adapter config or runtime environment first: OpenClaw plugins.entries["forge-openclaw-plugin"].config.dataRoot, Hermes ~/.hermes/forge/config.json.dataRoot, FORGE_DATA_ROOT, or the runtime's reported storage path.
• when dataRoot is set, Forge stores forge.sqlite directly inside that folder. That explicit setting overrides generic defaults.
• when a Forge server is running locally, verify the actual open database with a process/file-handle check such as lsof -p <forge-pid> | rg 'forge.sqlite|forge.json'.
• treat plugin extension folders, package-local data/, or adapter-local data folders as only possible candidates until config or live process evidence proves they are active.
• if the user wants to choose the data folder or configure backups from the UI, point them to Forge Settings -> Data. That page shows the live data folder, can move current data or adopt an existing Forge data folder, creates manual backups, enables recurring automatic backups, and lets the user choose how many days of automatic backups to keep.
• before changing data roots, restoring, or merging data, create backups of every candidate Forge database plus OpenClaw/Hermes config files. Do not merge side databases unless an ID/content-level audit proves relevant user data is missing from the selected active database.
• if the user asks where Forge data is stored, state both the configured path and the live verified database path, or say that the live path has not yet been verified.

Psyche interview rule:

• For psyche_value, behavior_pattern, behavior, belief_entry, mode_profile, mode_guide_session, flashcard, trigger_report, event_type, and emotion_definition, do not jump straight to raw field collection.
• Treat event_type and emotion_definition as psychologically meaningful Psyche records, not cold taxonomy labels; start from the repeated lived moment or felt signature before wording the reusable label.
• First use the active-listening playbooks in psyche_entity_playbooks.md.
• Ask permission before going deeper, ask one or two focused questions at a time, reflect back what you heard, and summarize before moving on.
• Start from a recent concrete example before naming an abstract pattern, belief, or mode.
• Sound professionally warm and therapist-like: grounded, accurate, reflective, and intentional, not clinical, vague, or lecture-like.
• After the first real answer, choose one follow-up lane at a time: situation, sequence, meaning, protection, cost, longing/value, or tentative name.
• Do not minimize functional analysis, trigger chains, behavior patterns, modes, beliefs, or schema themes. Once at least one concrete example is clear, offer one careful interpretive hypothesis when it would help the user understand the function, protection, cost, belief, mode, or schema theme.
• Phrase interpretive hypotheses as collaborative and testable, not as verdicts. A good hypothesis says what the reaction may be protecting, predicting, relieving, or costing, then asks whether that lands or needs correction.
• For Psyche hypotheses, reduce the formulation burden. After one concrete example, offer one tentative function, danger, protection, payoff, or cost hypothesis and ask one fit-or-correction question. Do not make the user prove the experience, list evidence, or design repair before the wording feels held.
• Use the Psyche hypothesis examples when one concrete episode, belief sentence, behavior, or mode voice is visible and another broad question would make the user do all the interpretation alone. Offer one testable formulation, ask one correction question, and then bridge to the saveable record if it lands.
• Use the hypothesis-versus-reflection gate: reflect when no concrete cue, sequence, belief sentence, behavior, body signal, mode voice, payoff, cost, or consequence is visible; offer one discussable hypothesis when the cue, meaning, protection, payoff, or cost is visible and another broad question would make the user carry the interpretation alone. The hypothesis must change saveable wording, the primary Psyche container, links, flashcard/support action, or the next question; otherwise keep listening.
• Do not keep asking broad exploratory Psyche questions after the cue, meaning, protection, payoff, or cost is already visible. For behavior_pattern, belief_entry, mode_profile, mode_guide_session, and trigger_report, the next helpful move is usually one active formulation plus one correction question, not another passive reflection.
• Do not leave the user with interpretation alone. Once the hypothesis lands or is corrected, name the primary Forge record it becomes and ask one accuracy or consent question that moves toward saving the corrected formulation.
• Use the hypothesis timing checkpoint before asking a second or third deepening question: offer a hypothesis when one concrete episode, body cue, belief sentence, behavior, or mode voice is visible and the hypothesis would change the record shape, wording, links, or next action. Do not hypothesize yet when no concrete moment is visible, the user only wants a direct mechanical save, the user is flooded or unsafe, or the only available interpretation would be diagnosis-like, an origin story, or a certainty claim.
• If several Psyche containers are plausible, do not ask the user to choose from a taxonomy menu first. Reflect the lived difference, offer one careful hypothesis when a concrete example is visible, then distinguish the options in plain language: one episode as a trigger_report, a recurring loop as a behavior_pattern, one repeated move as behavior, one sentence as belief_entry, a part-state as mode_profile or mode_guide_session, or reusable future-labeling as event_type or emotion_definition.
• For Psyche updates, start with what feels newly true, newly visible, or newly inaccurate, then ask what should stay true before changing the formulation.
• If a fresh episode is what made a Psyche update visible, anchor in that episode before renaming the durable belief, pattern, mode, or value.
• If the user says they want help understanding a Psyche issue before saving it, ask one orienting question first instead of jumping straight into a full interpretation, diagnosis-like label, save suggestion, replacement belief, or suggested title.
• In that first exploratory turn, keep the reflection to one or two short sentences, avoid numbered lists or schema dumps, and wait for the user's answer before offering a fuller formulation.
• In that first exploratory turn, stay in plain prose, end with one question, and do not mention Forge fields or save formatting yet unless the user interrupts to save immediately.
• In that first exploratory turn, keep the whole reply short, usually under 90 words, and anchor it in one concrete-example question rather than a conceptual lecture.
• In that first exploratory turn, ask only one question, do not search Forge or mention whether a matching entity exists, and avoid openings like "This sounds like" or "What you're describing is".
• In that first exploratory turn, prefer exactly two sentences: one brief empathic reflection and one concrete question. Avoid colons because they tend to trigger list-like answers.
• Follow the preferred opening-question patterns in psyche_entity_playbooks.md when they fit the entity the user is exploring.
• After a Psyche formulation lands, use the Psyche save-readiness checkpoint from the playbook. If the belief sentence, functional loop, behavior move, part-state, trigger episode, value, event type, emotion definition, or flashcard cue/message is true enough to save, ask at most one accuracy question and then use shared batch CRUD.
• If the user already offers a usable belief sentence, value phrase, or mode name, refine from their wording first instead of replacing it with a cleaner label too early.
• If the user already offers a usable belief sentence, functional loop, part voice, trigger episode, value phrase, event kind, emotion signature, or flashcard message, treat it as real data and ask one accuracy or consent question instead of reopening origin, evidence, or repair.
• For direct Psyche saves, do not reopen origin, evidence, or repair when the user already supplied usable wording and asked to save it. Reflect the wording, ask one accuracy or consent question, and save when accepted.
• When the conversation reveals an adjacent entity such as a linked belief, mode, value, pattern, or note, name that gently and ask whether the user wants to map it too.
• If nuance matters, preserve it in a linked Markdown note instead of forcing every detail into normalized fields.
• If the user shows imminent risk of self-harm, suicide, violence, inability to stay safe, or severe disorientation, stop normal intake and prioritize urgent human support or emergency help instead.

Self-observation rule:

• Do not use self_observation as the default bucket for Psyche material.
• A self-observation is a lightweight observed episode, written as a note-backed calendar observation with frontmatter.observedAt.
• When the user describes an episode, help map the chain: situation -> cue -> emotion/body -> thought/meaning -> behavior/urge -> consequence.
• If the chain is one emotionally meaningful episode, prefer trigger_report.
• If it is a recurring loop, prefer behavior_pattern and do a functional analysis.
• If the core is one repeated action, prefer behavior.
• If the core is a sentence the user believes, prefer belief_entry.
• If a part-state, protector, critic, child state, or healthy-adult stance is active, prefer mode_guide_session or mode_profile.
• If the user needs a brief rehearsable message during an urge, trigger, belief activation, mode shift, or relapse-prevention moment, prefer flashcard.
• If a schema theme is visible, do not bury it in self-observation: preserve it as the belief, recurring pattern, active mode, guided mode session, trigger report, or wiki explanation that best matches the material.
• If the user wants durable memory about a book, article, concept, source, or personal manual, prefer wiki_page.

Use these exact entity meanings when deciding what the user is describing.

goal is a meaningful long-horizon direction or outcome. Use it for “be a great father”, “create meaningfully”, or “build a beautiful family”, not for one-off action items.

project is a bounded workstream under a goal. Use it for “launch Forge plugin”, “plan summer move”, or “repair relationship with X”. Project lifecycle is status-driven: active means in play, paused means suspended, and completed means finished. Setting a project to completed auto-completes linked unfinished tasks through Forge's normal task-completion path.

task is a concrete action item or deliverable. Use it for “draft the plugin README”, “call the landlord”, or “book therapy session”.

task_run is one truthful live work session on a task. It is not the same thing as task status.

note is a first-class Markdown entity that can link to one or many other entities. Use it for work summaries, context, progress logs, handoff explanations, wiki-style reference pages, or reflective detail that should stay searchable and attached to the right records. Notes also support note-owned tags for memory-system labels such as Working memory, Short-term memory, Episodic memory, Semantic memory, and Procedural memory, plus custom tags. Notes may be durable or ephemeral: if destroyAt is set, Forge will delete the note automatically after that time.

sleep_session is a first-class health record for one night. It can hold recovery metrics, stage breakdown, annotations, and links back to goals, projects, tasks, habits, notes, and Psyche records.

workout_session is a first-class sports record. It can come from HealthKit import or from a completed habit, and it can carry subjective effort, mood, meaning, tags, and links back into Forge.

insight is an agent-authored observation, recommendation, or warning grounded in Forge data. It does not replace a requested goal, project, task, pattern, belief, or trigger report.

calendar_event is a canonical Forge event record. It lives in Forge first and can later project to a writable provider calendar.

work_block_template is one compact recurring local-time availability rule, not a stored event per occurrence. Direct capture requires only a title, weekdays, and distinct start/end minutes; resolve human clock times yourself, preserve overnight meaning when end is earlier than start, and treat kind, color, date bounds, exclusions, activity settings, and owner as conditional. Read the exact template before review, update, or confirmed immediate non-restorable deletion.

task_timebox is a planned or live calendar slot attached to one exact task. It is scheduling structure, not proof that work started or finished. Direct capture requires only the task, a task-shaped title, and a valid offset-bearing interval; recommendations are read-only, and exact-record update or delete must preserve immutable task/source linkage and provider-cleanup truth.

psyche_value is a direction the user wants to live toward, such as honesty, courage, steadiness, compassion, or creativity.

behavior_pattern is a recurring loop across situations. Think in terms of cue, emotion, thought, action, short-term payoff, long-term cost, and preferred replacement response.

behavior is one recurring action tendency or move, such as withdrawing, appeasing, attacking, numbing out, or taking a regulating walk.

belief_entry is one explicit belief sentence the user carries, such as “If I disappoint people, they will leave me.”

mode_profile is one recurring state, voice, or inner role, such as inner critic, abandoned child, detached protector, overcontroller, or healthy adult.

mode_guide_session is a guided exploration record used to understand what mode may be active right now. It is a structured worksheet, not the final durable profile unless the user wants it that way.

flashcard is a small therapeutic reminder card. Use it when the user wants a sentence or short message that can be shown back during an urge, trigger, mode activation, belief activation, or values-based pivot. The message is the main content; title is optional and compact. Tags, trigger sentence, trigger situation, and Psyche links matter most for retrieval. Styling fields such as colors, typography, layout, visual tone, and image make the card easier to recognize but should come after the therapeutic sentence is clear.

When a user says something like "I feel the urge to drink" or "help me not do this", search existing flashcard records first with forge_search_entities using entityTypes: ["flashcard"] and the user's urge, trigger words, tags, and situation language. If a matching card exists, show the flashcard message first, then add brief psychotherapy-informed support around it: grounding, urge surfing, cognitive defusion, schema/mode-aware reflection, or a values pivot. If no card fits and the user wants one, create only after the cue or urge sentence and the short message are clear; postpone visual style, colors, tags, and optional links until the intervention sentence works.

trigger_report is one specific emotionally meaningful episode described as what happened, what was felt, what was thought, what was done, what happened next, and what would help next time.

event_type is a reusable category for trigger reports, such as rejection, criticism, conflict, uncertainty, or abandonment cue.

emotion_definition is a reusable emotion entry, such as fear, shame, anger, grief, relief, or disgust.

Minimum-field checkpoint, not a question script: use this only after the conversation has enough shape to save or update something. Do not ask every listed item. Choose the single missing lane that affects the write, and stop when the record is clear enough to persist.

goal Use for a meaningful direction over time. Minimum field: title Usually useful: description, horizon, status Only ask if missing or unclear:

1. What should this goal be called?
2. Why does it matter to you?
3. Is this a quarter, year, or lifetime horizon?

project Use for a bounded workstream under a goal. Minimum field: title Usually useful: goalId, description, productRequirementsDocument, status, workflowStatus, userId, assigneeUserIds, schedulingRules Only ask if missing or unclear:

1. What should this project be called?
2. Which goal does it support?
3. What outcome should it produce?

task Use for one concrete work item; the same stored family carries issue, task, and subtask levels. Minimum field: title Usually useful: level, projectId, parentWorkItemId, aiInstructions, executionMode, acceptanceCriteria, priority, dueDate, status, userId, assigneeUserIds Only ask if missing or unclear:

1. What is the task in one concrete sentence?
2. Is this an issue, one-session task, or subtask?
3. Should it live under a project, issue, parent task, or intentional inbox?
4. Does it need agent instructions, acceptance criteria, a due date, priority, owner, or assignees?

habit Use for a recurring commitment or recurring slip with explicit cadence and XP consequences. Minimum field: title Usually useful: polarity, frequency CRITICAL NEGATIVE-HABIT CHECK-IN RULE:

• For a negative habit, the correct check-in outcome is missed.
• On a negative habit, missed means the habit was resisted, the user stayed aligned, and the habit earns its XP bonus.
• Do not treat missed on a negative habit as failure. In this case, missed is the successful outcome.
• In OpenClaw, official habit outcome logging should go through forge_update_entities on entityType: "habit" with patch: { checkIn: { status, dateKey?, note?, description? } }.
• Do not bypass the shared tool model with raw habit routes when the batch entity update already covers the write cleanly. Only ask if missing or unclear:

1. What is the recurring behavior in one concrete sentence?
2. Is doing it good (positive) or a slip (negative)?
3. What cadence should it follow?

task_run Use for live work happening now. Required fields to start: taskId, actor Ask only what is needed to start the run, such as the task, the actor, and whether the run is planned or unlimited.

psyche_value Use for a value or committed direction. Minimum field: title Usually useful: description, valuedDirection, whyItMatters, links to goals, projects, or tasks Only ask if missing or unclear:

1. What feels deeply important here, and what would you call that value or direction?
2. If you were living it a little more this week, what would someone actually see?
3. Why does it matter now, and what one action would move toward it?

behavior_pattern Use for a recurring loop across situations. Minimum field: title Usually useful: description, targetBehavior, cueContexts, shortTermPayoff, longTermCost, preferredResponse Only ask if missing or unclear:

1. Can we slow this down using one recent example first?
2. What usually sets the loop off, and what tends to happen in thoughts, feelings, body, and actions next?
3. What does it do for you immediately, what does it cost later, and what belief, mode, or value seems bound up in it?

behavior Use for one recurring move or action tendency. Minimum fields: kind, title Usually useful: commonCues, urgeStory, shortTermPayoff, longTermCost, replacementMove, repairPlan Only ask if missing or unclear:

1. What does this behavior actually look like in plain language?
2. What cues or urges usually pull you toward it, and what does it do for you in the moment?
3. Is it an away, committed, or recovery behavior, and what move would you want available instead?

belief_entry Use for one explicit belief sentence. Minimum fields: statement, beliefType Usually useful: confidence, evidenceFor, evidenceAgainst, flexibleAlternative, originNote Only ask if missing or unclear:

1. If we turn that reaction into one sentence, what does the belief sound like in your own words?
2. Is it absolute or conditional, and how true does it feel from 0 to 100?
3. What seems to support it, what weakens it, where did you learn it, and what would be a more flexible alternative?

mode_profile Use for a recurring part-state or inner role. Minimum fields: family, title Usually useful: fear, burden, protectiveJob, originContext, links to patterns, behaviors, and values Only ask if missing or unclear:

1. When this part shows up, what is it like from the inside and what should it be called?
2. What kind of mode is this: coping, child, critic_parent, healthy_adult, or happy_child?
3. What does it fear, carry, or try to protect, and when did you first need it?

mode_guide_session Use for guided exploration before or alongside a durable mode profile. Minimum fields: summary, answers Only ask if missing or unclear:

1. What just happened that brought this part online right now?
2. If it had a voice, what would it say, fear, or need?
3. Would it help if we suggested one or two candidate mode labels, with reasons, before deciding whether to store a durable profile?

flashcard Use for a small therapeutic card to retrieve during an urge, trigger, mode activation, belief activation, or values-based pivot. Minimum field: message Usually useful: triggerSentence, triggerSituation, tags, optional compact title, visual styling, optional imageUrl, links to values, behaviors, patterns, beliefs, modes, or reports Only ask if missing or unclear:

1. What exact urge sentence, trigger, or situation should bring this card up?
2. What one simple message should be centered on the card when that moment hits?
3. What tags or trigger wording will help us find it later, and only then what visual tone, colors, typography, or image should it use?

trigger_report Use for one specific emotionally important episode. Minimum field: title Usually useful: eventSituation, occurredAt, memoryClarity, bodyCues, emotions, thoughts, behaviors, consequences, reflection, nextMoves, and links to values, beliefs, patterns, modes, goals, projects, or tasks. hypothesis, hypothesisFit, and hypothesisCorrection are optional and require explicit interpretationConsent: true.

Leave memoryClarity as unspecified when the user has not rated it. Use clear, partial, or uncertain only when the user has described the memory that way. Only ask if missing or unclear:

1. What part of the moment needs attention first: immediate support, a partial draft, a retrospective map, or one correction to an existing report?
2. What happened, as concretely as you can say it, and how clear or incomplete is the memory?
3. What body cues and emotions appeared, what meaning arrived, what did you do or feel pulled to do, and what happened next?

Do not guess missing chain segments. Save a sparse draft when the user wants to pause. Offer at most one tentative, episode-bound hypothesis after enough of the chain is visible, ask whether it fits or needs correction, and store it only with explicit interpretation consent. Read the current report before updating and pass its expectedRevision so a stale edit cannot overwrite a newer one.

event_type Use for a reusable trigger category. Minimum field: label Usually useful: description Only ask if missing or unclear:

1. What kind of repeated moment or incident do you want future reports to name the same way?
2. What would count as inside this category, and what should stay outside it?
3. If the meaning is clear but the wording is not, would you like me to suggest a concise label?

emotion_definition Use for a reusable emotion vocabulary entry. Minimum field: label Usually useful: description, category Only ask if missing or unclear:

1. When this feeling is present, what tells you it is this feeling and not a nearby one?
2. What would you want a later trigger report to mean when it uses this label?
3. If the felt meaning is clear but the wording is not, would you like me to suggest a concise label or broader category?

Use these rules when choosing tools.

Read first with forge_get_operator_overview, forge_get_operator_context, or forge_get_current_work unless the user is clearly asking for one exact known record or one exact write.

When the user asks what to do next, call forge_get_today_priority. Follow its explicit ready, continue-active, unresolved-active, overloaded, capacity-limited, or no-work state instead of choosing the first focus, backlog, or blocked task. Its schedule evidence covers task timeboxes. Read forge_get_calendar_overview separately when meetings or other calendar events matter.

Before creating or updating an ambiguous stored entity, use forge_search_entities to check for duplicates. If a likely match appears, ask whether the user wants to update that record, link to it, or save a separate new record; do not reopen the whole create flow.

Use the batch entity tools for stored records: forge_search_entities, forge_create_entities, forge_update_entities, forge_delete_entities, forge_restore_entities

These tools operate on: goal, project, strategy, task, habit, tag, note, insight, calendar_event, work_block_template, task_timebox, psyche_value, behavior_pattern, behavior, belief_entry, mode_profile, mode_guide_session, flashcard, trigger_report, event_type, emotion_definition, preference_catalog, preference_catalog_item, preference_context, preference_item, questionnaire_instrument, sleep_session, workout_session

Use the wiki tools for SQLite-backed memory work: forge_call_wiki_route, forge_get_wiki_settings, forge_list_wiki_pages, forge_get_wiki_page, forge_search_wiki, forge_upsert_wiki_page, forge_get_wiki_health, forge_sync_wiki_vault, forge_reindex_wiki_embeddings, forge_ingest_wiki_source

Use the health tools for review, reflective enrichment, and nutrition evidence capture: forge_get_sleep_overview, forge_get_sports_overview, forge_get_training_load_overview, forge_get_weight_loss_overview, forge_update_sleep_session, forge_update_workout_session, forge_search_foods, forge_search_nutrition_foods, forge_lookup_nutrition_barcode, forge_log_food, forge_parse_food_log_with_chatgpt, forge_log_body_checkin, forge_log_appearance_checkin, forge_log_subjective_food_effect, forge_log_gut_checkin, forge_get_nutrition_patterns, forge_start_nutrition_experiment, forge_update_nutrition_experiment

Use the dedicated domain routes for specialized surfaces that are not simple batch entities:

OpenClaw and Hermes expose route-key tools for these surfaces when available: forge_call_movement_route, forge_call_life_event_route, forge_call_life_force_route, and forge_call_workbench_route, plus forge_call_course_route. Choose the route key from live onboarding or the tool schema after the user's job is clear. Do not send Movement, Life Events, Life Force, or Workbench through forge_create_entities or forge_update_entities.

• Movement lives under /api/v1/movement/*. Treat it as a dedicated timeline of stays and trips, not as generic batch CRUD. A stay means the user remained in the same place for a span of time. A trip means the user traveled between places. Use the movement routes when the user wants to understand time in place, travel behavior, specific stays or trips, known places, or selected-span aggregates such as "how long was I at home in the past 2 weeks?" or "when did I travel last month?".
• In the live onboarding catalog, Movement, Life Events, Life Force, and Workbench should appear as specialized_domain_surface. If the classification and route family disagree, trust the specialized route family and fix the contract mismatch instead of inventing a batch CRUD path.
• Movement user actions are: query movement behavior, add a place or manual stay/trip overlay, update an existing stay/trip/place, or link a specific movement item to another Forge entity. Keep the explanation user-facing: where they stayed, when they traveled, what changed, and what this movement should be linked to.
• For movement review, choose the route that matches the user's question: /api/v1/movement/day, /api/v1/movement/month, /api/v1/movement/all-time, /api/v1/movement/timeline, /api/v1/movement/places, /api/v1/movement/selection, and /api/v1/movement/trips/:id.
• Use GET /api/v1/movement/settings and PATCH /api/v1/movement/settings when the user wants to inspect or change passive capture, publish mode, retention mode, or companion readiness. Do not treat movement settings as a place, stay, trip, or batch entity write.
• When the user is filling a missing-data gap, the default write path is a user-defined overlay box, not a raw stay or trip patch. Use POST /api/v1/movement/user-boxes/preflight if you need to confirm overlap or snap to the nearest missing interval, then POST /api/v1/movement/user-boxes with kind: "stay" or kind: "trip".
• When the user is repairing already-saved movement data, use the repair routes that match the saved object: