vault

name	vault
description	Query, ingest into, and lint the agent-brain-vault (compiled project wiki at ~/Code/agent-brain-vault) — teaches any agent the three vault ops so a project question gets answered from compiled, cited pages instead of re-reading raw sources. Also the recommended pre-search fetcher for research units. Backed by @bpm/wiki-compiler (bpm-agent-amplifier).

Vault — agent-brain-vault ops

The vault (~/Code/agent-brain-vault, its own git repo) is the project's compiled knowledge base: raw material goes in once, gets synthesized into cited pages, and every later question is answered from those pages — not by re-reading the raw material again. This skill teaches the three ops any agent needs: query, ingest, lint.

Read ~/Code/agent-brain-vault/SCHEMA.md before your first write to that vault — it is the single source of truth for frontmatter fields, wikilink syntax, and the topic→page routing table. This skill summarizes it; SCHEMA.md is authoritative.

Layout recap

~/Code/agent-brain-vault/
├── sources/     immutable raw inputs (transcripts, folds, MEMORY.md deltas, pulls)
├── wiki/        compiled pages — <slug>.md, cite these, never sources/ directly
├── SCHEMA.md    style guide + routing table (topic → pages to re-synthesize)
└── CONFLICTS.md created by the first ingest that hits a contradiction

Rule of thumb: an answer that cites wiki/*.md is a vault answer. An answer built by reading sources/* directly is NOT — that's exactly the raw-source re-read this skill exists to avoid. If wiki/ has nothing on the topic, say so; don't fall back to grepping sources/ and presenting the fragments as if they were a synthesized answer.

Op 1 — Query

Today (no code required):

1. rg -il "<keyword>" ~/Code/agent-brain-vault/wiki/*.md (exclude README.md) to find candidate pages.
2. Read each match, answer the question, and cite [Page Title](wiki/<slug>.md) plus its frontmatter provenance entries.
3. Nothing relevant in wiki/? Report the gap — it's a real one, worth an ingest — rather than silently reading sources/ to patch the answer together.

Once wired into a Node/TS context (playbook, night-shift, or any package that already holds a real VaultMemoryClient), prefer the ranked hybrid search over grep:

import { queryVault } from "@bpm/wiki-compiler";
const results = await queryVault(client, "how does the escalation ledger threshold work?", 3);
// → ranked { slug, title, section, relevance, snippet }[] — cite slug + section

Known gap: queryVault's client.queryVault() is meant to hit bpm-memory-mcp's hybrid RRF engine over a 'wiki-page'-typed index (T5.5), but that MemoryType value is still missing from bpm-memory-mcp's enum as of this writing — a mem-lane gap, out of this skill's write scope. Until it lands, indexVault/queryVault only work against a test/mock VaultMemoryClient; use the grep-based procedure above for real work.

Op 2 — Ingest

Every page in wiki/ is written through the same schema, whether a human hand-edits it or a compiler pass produces it — so nothing has to change once automated adapters land.

1. Every page needs provenance: string[] with at least one entry — writePage() throws on an empty list, and a hand-written page should follow the same rule: never synthesize a claim you can't point to a source for.
2. Frontmatter: provenance, compiled_at (ISO-8601), volatility (low|medium|high), confidence (0–1), content_hash (sha256 of the body), stale (bool, lint-owned — never set this yourself). Body starts # Title, links use [[Page Title]] or [[slug|display text]].
3. Check SCHEMA.md's routing table: touching a topic re-synthesizes every page listed for it (the concept's own page, its index/hub, and any cross-referencing page) — not just the one page that looks most relevant.
4. A new claim that contradicts an existing page does not overwrite it — append both claims with their provenance to CONFLICTS.md at the vault root and leave the existing page as-is pending resolution.
5. From code: writePage(vaultRoot, { title, content, provenance, volatility, confidence }) (@bpm/wiki-compiler). scaffoldVault(vaultRoot) bootstraps a fresh vault's sources/, wiki/, and SCHEMA.md — idempotent, never overwrites a hand-edited SCHEMA.md.
6. Run Op 3 (lint) after any ingest, before treating the page as trustworthy.

Known gap: automated compile adapters (session transcripts → pages, fold exports → pages, MEMORY.md deltas → pages) are T5.2, not yet built. Ingest today is manual or semi-manual — write pages by hand following the schema above so they're indistinguishable from what the adapters will produce once they ship.

Op 3 — Lint

Today: validateLinks(vaultRoot) (@bpm/wiki-compiler) — walks every [[wikilink]] in wiki/*.md and reports any that don't resolve to another page's slug or # Title. Treat a broken link as a hard stop before citing the page it came from.

Forthcoming (T5.4): a full lint() pass — contradiction scan across linked pages, orphan detection (0 inbound links), and staleness detection (content_hash drift or the volatility window elapsed) — writing LINT_REPORT.md and flipping stale: true on affected pages, run as a Night Shift pass. Until it ships, a page with no visible stale: true flag is not a guarantee of freshness — cross-check compiled_at against how volatile the claim is.

For research units — vault as a fetcher

Before spending web-research budget on a topic, run Op 1 (query) against the vault the same way agents/researcher.md's Fact Bank step queries prior facts with fact_query: existing, cited knowledge is free; re-deriving it from scratch is the waste this exists to prevent. Cite the vault page in the report body like any other source (title + wiki/ path); the Fact Bank's sourceType enum is unchanged by this, so don't invent a vault value there — a vault hit is a starting point for the report, not a fact_store call. Because opencode experts run as Jarvis micro-agents (see docs/sdlc/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md M9), wiring this into researcher.md gives every Jarvis research unit the same queryVault fetcher automatically — no separate Jarvis-side change needed.

Validation

New or edited vault pages: validateLinks() (Op 3) must report zero broken links before you call an ingest done. New or edited files in this repo: run scripts/validators/validate-no-ascii-art.sh and scripts/validators/validate-file-size.sh.