bureau

Orientation for the bureau plugin — the records-office model, the capture → compile → review gate, the trust tiers, the crew, and which bureau: command serves which intent. Read this FIRST before using any bureau: command, or whenever working in a repo that has a bureau workspace (a canon/ directory + a BUREAU.md), so you draw on the project's canon instead of re-deriving or guessing.

Write a faithful, append-only minute for an AI session — intent, decisions, changed files, open threads, and a transcript pointer. Use when filing a session into a bureau workspace (e.g. via bureau:file-session), or when the user asks to record/minute the current session.

Distil minutes into consistency-checked dossiers — the canonical SSOT — writing provenance links back to the sessions that introduced each claim. Use when running bureau:compile, or when the user asks to turn the logbook into canon / update the cabinets / build the knowledge base from sessions.

Sweep the dossiers for semantic inconsistencies that the press's structural check cannot see — free-text contradictions, superseded claims, undocumented gaps, and vocabulary drift. Use when running bureau:lint, before a milestone, or when the user asks to check the canon for contradictions / consistency / drift.

Answer from the bureau canon with citations and trust tiers — read dossiers as memory, honor each page's status, and never present an unverified claim as fact. Use when running bureau:query, or when the user asks what the project knows / what was decided / what the canon says about something.

The human double-check gate for AI-written memory. Show every cabinet claim not yet approved — with its provenance and automatic check result — and let the human promote it to canonical or reject it. Use when running bureau:review, or when the user asks to approve / vet / sign off on what the AI wrote to memory before it is trusted as fact.

The live note-taker — summarize the current session's decisions and open threads on demand or at checkpoints, and (in a bureau workspace) append them to the session's running minute. Use when running bureau:note, or when the user asks to take a note / minute this / summarize where we are.