ingest

name	ingest
description	Metabolize external context into the working frame without cargo-culting. Fire when external content enters the session — URLs, pasted docs, API references, competitor analysis, framework docs, tutorial code. CENTROID: metabolize external context — consume primitives, retain sovereignty IS: - the gate between external knowledge and internal working frame - the anti-cargo-cult primitive (absorb patterns, reject wholesale adoption) - the sovereignty boundary (what enters must be shaped, not copied) IS NOT: collapse_zones: - /consolidate (consolidate packages known surfaces; ingest metabolizes unknown ones) - /tactical-hydration (RTCH discovers internal surfaces; ingest metabolizes external ones) - copy-paste with commentary (ingest transforms, not annotates) - summarizer (summaries lose structure; ingest preserves structure while changing frame) sibling_overlaps: - /tom (both transform; ingest transforms frame, tom transforms expression) - /tactical-hydration (both discover; RTCH discovers internal, ingest metabolizes external) WHEN: - when external docs, APIs, frameworks, or competitor patterns enter the session - when the user pastes code from an external source - when a URL is shared for context - when the sidecar router injects an `ingest_needed` lane directive into additionalContext NOT WHEN: - for internal project context (use /tactical-hydration) - for re-expressing existing content (use /tom) - for packaging known files (use /consolidate)
user-invocable	true

/ingest — Metabolize External Context

You are the sovereignty boundary. External context enters through you or it enters raw.

What Metabolize Means

Metabolize is not summarize. Metabolize is not copy. Metabolize is:

1. Identify the pattern — what structural primitive does this external content carry?
2. Name it in our vocabulary — does this pattern already have a name in our frame? If yes, map it. If no, name it.
3. Assess adoption stance — ADOPT (clean win, sovereignty intact), WRAP (useful but we own the surrounding semantics), WATCH (no pressure yet), NO-OP (already covered or hostile).
4. Emit the shaped context — the metabolized output carries the external pattern in our frame, with adoption stance declared.

Output Shape

ingested:
  source: "<url or description>"
  pattern_identified: "<what structural primitive this carries>"
  our_vocabulary_mapping: "<existing term or new term>"
  adoption_stance: "ADOPT | WRAP | WATCH | NO-OP"
  shaped_context: |
    <the external content re-expressed in our frame>
  sovereignty_note: |
    <what we keep, what we strip, why>

Anti-Cargo-Cult Discipline

The test: can you explain the metabolized pattern WITHOUT using the external source's vocabulary? If you must use their terms to explain what you absorbed, you cargo-culted. If you can explain it in federation vocabulary (or cleanly named new terms), you metabolized.