Use when starting a non-trivial new thread (worker dispatch, multi-file investigation, deferred follow-up), changing the status of in-flight work, or answering "what's open" / "what's in flight" / "any tasks tracking X" — operates on the SM v2 task store at ~/alice-mind/inner/tasks/ via the `task` CLI. Don't create a task for pure conversational replies. Don't bypass the CLI by hand-editing files.
Use when {{ user.name }} shares something they want remembered but that doesn't fit a structured event type ("btw I'm feeling off today", "started reading X", "thinking about quitting Y"). Appends a dated note to the daily log AND a generic note event to events.jsonl. Don't use this for food/workouts/weights — those have their own skills.