brain-setup

name	brain-setup
description	First-session onboarding interview that fills _context/ with the user's identity, product, customers, voice, and goals. Triggers on - set up my brain, setup brain, brain setup, onboard me, start here, interview me, getting started.

Brain setup

Interview the user, then rewrite the _context/ files with real content. This runs once; after it, every other skill has context to work with.

Process

1. Check _context/me.md. If it does NOT contain STATUS: TEMPLATE, the brain is already set up; ask whether they want to update specific context files instead, and stop.
2. Open as a conversation, not a system report: a short welcome, one line on what this is (a 10-minute conversation so everything the brain does starts from who they actually are), then straight into the first question. Never mention templates, markers, or internal state.
3. Interview conversationally, a few questions at a time, never as one giant form. Cover, in order:
   • Them (for me.md): name, one-sentence what-they-do, stage of the journey, background highlights, working style, links.
   • Product (for product.md): name, one-liner, status, pricing, the problem, how it solves it.
   • Customers (for icp.md): who, the pain in the customer's words, where they hang out, what makes them buy.
   • Positioning (for positioning.md): category, alternatives, why-me sentence, what they are NOT.
   • Goals (for goals.md): up to three quarterly goals with numbers and dates, the year headline, the not-doing list.
   • Voice (for voice.md): ask them to paste 2-3 real writing samples. From the samples, extract tone, rhythm, vocabulary, opening and closing styles, formatting habits. Keep the samples in the file.
4. Rewrite each _context/ file: remove the STATUS: TEMPLATE line, fill the sections, set updated: to today.
5. Seed _ops/this-week.md with the current week and ask: "if only one thing ships this week, what is it?"
6. Finish by showing them three things to try next: drop something in inbox/, say "start my day", say "draft a post about X".

Rules

• Skipped questions are fine; write (not captured yet) so a later session can fill the gap.
• Short answers are fine; never pad their words with invented detail.
• If they have no writing samples, draft 3 short sample paragraphs in different tones, ask which feels most like them, and note that voice.md is provisional until real samples replace it.