ask-portfolio

name	ask-portfolio
description	Answer a question about YOUR OWN work — your code, docs, notes, past decisions and conventions — using a LOCAL offline second-brain (Ollama RAG over an index of your corpus). Free, no cloud, no data egress. Use when you ask "have we solved this before", "what's my convention for X", "where did I do Y", "what did I decide about Z", "search my own work / docs / notes", or invoke /ask-portfolio. ONLY for questions grounded in your own corpus — never general-knowledge questions.
argument-hint	"<your question, verbatim>"
user_invocable	true

Ask the portfolio (local second-brain)

Answers questions about your own body of work by running a local RAG tool over an embedded index of your docs plus your notes/memory files. Grounded, cited, offline, zero cost. The model only synthesizes retrieved text — it does not reason from scratch.

Prerequisites

• A local RAG CLI that embeds and queries your corpus and prints a grounded answer + its sources. Set BRAIN_BIN to its path. A reference implementation is a small Go tool over Ollama embeddings — swap in whatever you have.
• Ollama with an instruct model + an embedding model pulled (e.g. qwen2.5:7b + nomic-embed-text).

How to run

Run the tool from the directory holding its index (it reads the index relative to cwd):

pushd <dir-with-your-index>
"$BRAIN_BIN" "<your question, verbatim>"
popd

It prints a grounded answer, a confidence, and the source files it retrieved.

What to relay

• The answer, plus the top 1-2 cited source files — always surface the source so you can verify. Grounding is the whole point; do not paraphrase the citations away.
• If it's a decision/convention question, quote the specific fact and where it came from.

Rules

• Trigger only on questions about your own corpus (your code, docs, notes, decisions, conventions). For anything general/world-knowledge, don't use this — answer normally.
• The corpus can be stale. A note or doc may hold an old fact whose correction lives in a later file; RAG can surface the outdated one. If the answer smells superseded, say so and check for a newer source before trusting it.
• If retrieval confidence is low or the cited sources look off-topic, say so — offer to rebuild the index (needed after adding new docs) or fall back to a normal file search.
• Prereqs: Ollama running with the instruct + embedding models pulled. If the tool errors on a missing index, build it once per its docs.