pad-manual

# Pad Manual Pad is the living index in `system/pad.md` plus the pinned read-only paths in `system/pad_append.json`. ## Public call ```text psyche(action="pad", input={}, reasoning="load Pad guidance") ``` This is the only public Pad call and only returns this manual. It has no append, edit, load, or reload action and no compatibility alias. ## Edit Pad sources Durable Pad changes go through `shell`, anchored in the authorized working directory: rewrite `system/pad.md` in full, or make a bounded exact change after verifying the old text exists exactly once, then verify the written file and keep output bounded. Platform recipes live in `shell-manual`. No shell write hot-loads the prompt. Apply one `context(action="rebuild", input={}, reasoning="apply Pad change")` when immediate activation is needed. Keep Pad to current goal, state, next action, blockers, collaborators, and useful pointers; archive completed narrative in knowledge. ## Pinned references `system/pad_append.json` is an ordinary JSON array of workdir-relative or absolute paths, for example `["notes/design.md", "src/api.py"]`. Edit it through `shell` the same way, and verify the written JSON afterwards. Write `[]` to clear it. Shell writes do not validate the pinned list or its aggregate size; confirm the paths and UTF-8 contents yourself. Reconstruction rereads every listed file and appends its contents to Pad, so list edits and pinned-file edits appear only after rebuild, refresh, or molt. A missing path is reported as `append_not_found` at compose time, not rejected at write time; pinned text also consumes context budget, so keep the list short and text-only. Before molt, make durable Pad state accurate, rebuild only if needed in the current context, then follow `context-manual` for journal/summary/molt procedure. Leave root `summarize` false for exact guidance.