start-work-week

name	start-work-week
description	Start the work week. Life check-in, week planning, and Monday daily startup. Usually Monday morning. Runs INSTEAD of /start-workday. Use when: 'start work week', 'Monday startup', 'let's start the week'.
disable-model-invocation	true

Start Work Week (Monday morning, ~15 min)

You are running the user's Monday work-week startup. This combines a life check-in, weekend catch-up, week planning, and daily startup. Take it at a measured pace — Mondays set the tone.

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Step 1: Daily note setup

Read today's daily note. daily:read creates it from the configured template if it doesn't already exist — do NOT call obsidian create for the daily note.

obsidian daily:read vault="{{VAULT_NAME}}"

Read Friday's and weekend daily notes for continuity. Add a ## Week Ahead section dynamically to today's note (Monday-only — not in the template).

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Step 2: Morning check-in

Same 3 prompts → ## Morning State. Update energy and mood frontmatter.

• "How are you feeling right now?"
• "What feels most alive for you right now?"
• "What would make today feel good?"

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Step 3: Weekend catch-up

Ask: "What did you get done over the weekend?"

This catches accomplishments from personal days, especially if /end-personal-day wasn't run. Cross-reference with weekend daily notes (Log, Reflection sections, ## Today's Options, ## Done Today).

Advance the system:

• Mark completed project actions, move to ## Completed sections.
• Update project context where relevant.
• Add any new follow-up actions surfaced.
• If nothing project-related happened, skip gracefully — weekends don't need to be productive.

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Step 4: Week Ahead check-in

4 Monday-specific life check-in questions. Write responses to ## Week Ahead in today's note:

• "How am I feeling right now?" (deeper — about overall life state, not just this moment)
• "What feels most alive for me right now?"
• "Where am I feeling the most friction going into this week?"
• "What can I do to make it a good week?"

Pattern weather: Before the check-in questions, scan last week's daily note Observations sections for any shadow patterns that were noted. If a pattern appeared across multiple days, share briefly: "Last week I noticed [pattern] showing up around [domain] — worth keeping an eye on, or has something shifted?" This is conversational context, not excavation. If no patterns were noted, skip silently.

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Step 5: Calendar scan — full week

Read Mon-Fri events using mcp__apple-events__calendar_events. Identify:

• Meeting-heavy days vs. deep-work days
• Prep needs for upcoming events
• Personal commitments during work hours
• Schedule conflicts to flag

Summarize the week's shape.

Also read the next 60 days of calendar events (startDate: next Monday, endDate: today + 60 days) and Apple Reminders (mcp__apple-events__reminders_tasks, incomplete with due dates). These feed the ## Upcoming horizon overview in Step 11. The full week scan above is for conversational context (meeting-heavy days, deep work blocks). ## Upcoming captures only critical items across two months.

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Step 6: Rule of 3 recap

Surface the weekly outcomes from Friday's deep-review (if available — check Friday's daily note or recent notes for Rule of 3). Ask: "Still feel right, or want to adjust?"

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Step 7: Day-specific routines

Read [[Day-Specific Routines]]. Filter for Monday + ## Daily. Present applicable items. These will be converted to checkboxes and written to ## Routines in today's daily note during Step 11.

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Step 8: Inbox overview

Gather counts from all three inboxes:

• Drafts inbox: mcp__drafts__drafts_inbox — count items
• Obsidian inbox: obsidian search query="path:Inbox/" vault="{{VAULT_NAME}}" — count results
• Unread email: mcp__mail__get_emails (unread, limit 1) — get unread count

Report: "X Drafts, Y inbox notes, Z unread emails. Full processing happens during deep review."

Workbench: Count files in Workbench/ (obsidian search query="path:Workbench/" vault="{{VAULT_NAME}}"). Report: "X workbench items active" (add "Y ready to graduate" if any have status: ready). Information-only — no processing.

Do NOT process inboxes here — the relevance pass happens in Step 11 after choices are confirmed.

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Step 9: Build action menu

Same as start-workday but with week-level awareness. Consider:

• Which Rule of 3 outcomes need action today?
• Front-load important work early in the week
• Monday energy (may be lower — adjust accordingly)
• ~5-8 options grouped by area, weighted by enjoyable usefulness

Include stance awareness checks (grounded in shadow-awareness rule — Tier 1 only):

• Lots of planning, little execution → "What's the very next physical action?"
• Grinding through tasks, ignoring meaningful work → Surface something important and enjoyable
• Paralysis or "nothing matters" → Offer one small, concrete, useful thing
• Refining options instead of choosing → "These are good enough — which one first?"

One observation max. Check off-switch criteria before surfacing.

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Step 10: Carried forward from Friday

Check Friday's daily note ## Today's Options for undone items (still - [ ], not in ## Done Today). Ask: "Still relevant?"

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Step 11: Write daily note dashboard + Intentions

Write the daily-note dashboard per the shared write-spec in .claude/shared/daily-startup-dashboard.md, with these parameters:

• Today's Options — groups Work / Personal / Quick; the items confirmed in Step 9; 5-8 options weighted by week-level awareness (Rule of 3 outcomes, front-loaded priorities).
• Routines — Monday + Daily items from Step 7.
• Upcoming — all critical items; sources are the Step 5 60-day scan and milestones spotted in Step 9. (Full week shape was presented conversationally in Step 5; this is the two-month critical-items overview, not today's schedule.)
• Intentions — informed by the Week Ahead responses (Step 4) and Rule of 3 (Step 6).
• Inbox relevance pass — include unread email.

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Step 12: Yesterday's observations

Write to Sunday's (or Friday's) daily note if it exists without ## Observations. Include defense pattern tracking at Tier 2 if applicable — same protocol as start-workday Step 10 (observation + capacity evidence; note contradictions for the Defense Pattern Living Record).

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Step 13: Summary

Present:

• Week overview (calendar shape, Rule of 3 outcomes)
• Today's plan (action menu, calendar)
• Any follow-ups or attention items

Commit all vault changes.