life-harness

Discuss a goal with the user and write it down in the life-harness workspace, with clear checkable success criteria, consistent with their philosophy and existing goals. Use when the user runs /rl-goal, states a goal they want to set (e.g. "spend two focused hours a day building my side project"), names an existing goal to refine, or asks what to pursue next. Reads philosophy/ and goals/; writes to goals/open/ and goals/closed/.

Set up (or repair) the life-harness workspace in the current folder — the philosophy/, goals/, actions/, and work/ directories plus the conventions the other rl- skills rely on. Run this once, first, before rl-philosophy, rl-goal, rl-plan, rl-work, or rl-review. Use when the user runs /rl-init, or asks to initialize, set up, bootstrap, or scaffold life-harness / a life workspace.

Observe what the user actually did — from whatever evidence they provide (a report in their words, a file or export they point to, a screenshot, a paste, a link) plus the AI's own work records — and judge it against a life-harness goal's action plan and success criteria and the user's philosophy — honestly, not as a cheerleader — then log what happened into the action file and refine. Use when the user runs /rl-review, reports what they did / achieved, points at activity data to assess, or wants an honest check on progress over a time window. Reads goals/, actions/, philosophy/, and any AI work records under work/; the activity evidence comes from the source the user names; writes to actions/ and goals/.

Execute concrete tasks the user delegates to the AI — the "act" arm of the life-harness loop, done on the computer — grounded in their philosophy and goals, with the task brief and every artifact kept in the same repo under work/ so this and future agents inherit full context. Use when the user runs /rl-work, hands over a task to do, or asks the AI to build, research, draft, or fix something toward a goal. Reads philosophy/, goals/, actions/; writes to work/open/ and work/closed/.

Add or refine the user's personal philosophy and values in the life-harness workspace — the lens that every goal and review is checked against. Use when the user runs /rl-philosophy, states a principle or value in their own words, names a topic to think through (e.g. "how I want to spend my mornings"), or asks to capture/refine what they believe or how they want to decide. Writes to philosophy/.

Turn a life-harness goal into concrete, doable, timed actions and write them down as the goal's action plan, consistent with the user's philosophy. Use when the user runs /rl-plan, asks how to actually reach a goal, wants to plan or break down a goal into steps, or names an existing action plan to refine. Reads goals/ and philosophy/; writes one action file per goal to actions/open/. The plan is later observed against by rl-review.