| name | capture |
| description | Turn what was said in this session — a dump, a dictated voice memo transcript, or a conversation — into a dated session note, and file it against the threads it belongs to. Use when the user has finished talking and wants it written down, or says "capture this", "write that up". |
capture
Write down what happened, in their words, without improving it.
Procedure
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Check the working agreement. context/working-agreement.md may say to write a note every
session, only on request, or to show the draft before saving. Honour it.
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Draft the note at sessions/YYMMDD-<slug>.md, where the slug names the subject, not the
date ("phone-call-with-m", not "session-4").
---
type: session
date: 2026-08-14
threads: [<thread-ids>]
mood: <their word for it, if they gave one — not yours>
---
# <what this session was about>
## What happened
Events, dated, in the order they occurred. Facts only.
## In their words
> Quoted directly. Keep the phrasing, including the swearing and the hedging.
> Dictated speech gets punctuation and paragraph breaks; nothing else changes.
## What came up
Themes, reactions, connections they made themselves.
## Inference
Anything *you* concluded rather than heard. Labelled, separate, and short.
## Open
Questions left hanging. Things they said they'd think about. No action items
unless they asked for action items.
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File against threads. For each theme, either add a line to an existing threads/<id>.md
or propose a new thread. Do not create a thread for something that has happened once — a
thread is a thing that recurs. Update threads/INDEX.md.
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Show it, then save. Show the draft. Ask if anything is wrong or should come out. Save
after they answer, not before.
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Offer, don't run, context-sync — if something learned here is not issue-specific and
belongs in background context.
Handling raw material
If they pasted a transcript, an email thread or messages: save the raw thing to
material/YYMMDD-<slug>.<ext> unedited and reference it from the note. material/ is
evidence; sessions are interpretation. Never merge the two.
Transcripts of dictated speech: fix punctuation and obvious ASR errors, keep everything else,
including repetition and false starts if they carry emphasis.
Rules
- Their words survive. Do not upgrade "it was a shit day" to "a difficult day", and do not
translate plain description into therapy vocabulary.
- Separate heard from concluded. Everything you worked out goes under
## Inference and
nowhere else.
- No advice in a session note. The note records; it does not counsel.
- Append-only. Never edit yesterday's note. Corrections get a dated line at the bottom.
- If they say something they immediately ask you to forget, do not write it, and do not
reference having heard it.
