Apply whenever writing or editing documentation, notes, or knowledge files (vault notes, READMEs, design/architecture docs, changelogs). Enforces rewrite-in-place over append, no contradictions, bounded docs, and no hard-wrapped prose. Shipped and kept current by Loom.
Use when wrapping up work — "done for now", "wrapping up", "end session", "log this", "save progress". Records progress + decisions on the board task and leaves the work clean and resumable by the next session.
Use when starting a new task, feature, bugfix, or refactor in a Loom project — "let's start", "new task", "working on", "implement", "begin". Ensures a board task exists with a clear scope and a sharp definition of done, then loads context before any code changes.
The operating doctrine for the Loom Platform operator — a friendly, user-facing workspace operator that gets a brand-new user set up and helps maintain their workspace thereafter. Load at the start of any setup-assistant session to help the user create, configure, and archive projects, define agents and profiles, pick default skills and a workflow, and act on their behalf over the curated loom-setup tool surface — confirming big or irreversible actions first. NOT a self-improving Platform Lead.
Use when resuming work or getting up to speed on a Loom task — "pickup", "continue", "what were we doing", "get back to". Reads the project board, recent git history, CLAUDE.md, and (if relevant) your living resume doc to brief the current state and a concrete next step.
The operating doctrine for a Loom lead / orchestrator (manager) session. Load at the start of any orchestrator agent to run the lead-manages-workers loop — plan, decompose, delegate, review, merge, recycle — over the loom-orchestration tools. Your agent prompt supplies the project-specifics; this is the cross-project HOW.
The operating doctrine for the Loom Platform Lead — the standing, human-driven operator ABOVE all projects. Load at the start of any platform-lead session to run the cross-project admin + self-improvement loop (create/maintain projects, agents, profiles and sessions; field manager bug-escalations; own platform-wide concerns) over the loom-platform tool surface. Your agent prompt supplies the platform specifics; this is the cross-project HOW.
The cross-project doctrine for writing, reviewing, and integrating rigorous multi-perspective deep-dive research notes in an Obsidian history/geopolitics vault — source tiers, the blocklist, hedging contested claims, the credibility-laundering trap, the note format, and cross-linking + Wikimedia imagery. Load in any research project's deep-dive, orchestrator, or integration agent (alongside /worker or /orchestrate).