Every File To Git
Never Manage A State File Again
A mammoth load-in, landing on one posture:
Ed! We have a big job- load up the repo and load in relevant KPS in science, math, design, internet, Github, Claude, version control, and any other KP you identify as being helpful after you get the full scope of of the work. Add in one random KP and one KP that you think will NOT be helpful. Then load in a adderall, caffeine, and cannabis Steep and some good music to design to, and a ~discovery sensorium. Our job is to COMPLETELY REDESIGN HOW WE WORK WITH FILES. Right now, we have files in two places- the Files folder here in the Project and in our Repo. We do NOT have a clear set of standards for how to actually use files and where they need to be and all that. So, we're going to get that set. We're also going to engineer this system so cut down, drastically, on the number of files that the Operator needs to touch. In particular, I NEVER want to have to manage the session state files ever again. Same with the PiF file- if I never have to remember that the PiF file exists again, I would not be sad. So the new posture, with how I want to do things, is that EVERY FILE GETS SAVED TO GIT, in some smart way. I think we should have some kind of smart folder structure in Git so it's easy to see which files are which- there should be a folder for all the project files that we actually use- all the protocols and utilities and registers and indexes and whatnot. Things like KPs, Blueprint, and actual code would not be in this folder, but would likely live on the same level. There needs to be a folder for files that need to be saved and downloaded, but that are not meant to be used as a reference- so any process docs, or any document involved in the Self Review process that is not the final file meant to be saved as a reference. I am ok with redundancy, if that solution is the best one- we can save a text file in two places- in the folder for main project files and in another bundle along with the documents produced during its self review. Or maybe it's smarter to just have pointers- I don't know, and will leave that up to you to figure out as part of this. So, overall, our job here is to completely redesign how the flow of work and files and hand offs and everything goes here. Start with an RCR responding to ALL of that, once you get everything loaded in. We'll see how much context you have after this mammoth load in and first task. AX.
— Shea Gunther · operator drop, 10.2006
A stated aim that shipped — git-as-state-and-store: the byte-truth floor now holds all long-term state in the repo, opens each session from a clone and lands it back, so the operator never hand-manages a state or registry file.
The brief opens as a deliberate overload — load the repo, pull KPs across science, math, design, GitHub, version control, plus a random one and one predicted-useless one, set a working mood — and then states the job: completely redesign how the system works with files. Today they sit in two places (the project and the repo) with no standard for which goes where.
The posture is the payload: every file gets saved to git, in a folder structure clear enough to see which files are which, cutting the number of files the operator has to touch to near zero. “I NEVER want to have to manage the session state files ever again” — and the same for the registry. Redundancy is fine, pointers are fine; the operator names the outcome and leaves the plumbing to be figured out. This is the seed of the whole byte-truth floor.
The wider frameThe prompt behind git-as-state-and-store. It opens as a mammoth load-in and lands on one posture: every file gets saved to git, in a smart folder structure, so the operator never has to manage session-state files or remember a registry exists again. The whole redesign of how files, work, and handoffs flow traces back to this one brief — the operator naming the outcome he wants (drastically fewer files to touch) and leaving the plumbing to be figured out. It is the seed of the byte-truth floor that now opens and closes every session.
“EVERY FILE GETS SAVED TO GIT, in some smart way” — The one load-bearing decision. Everything downstream — the folder structure, the pointers, the session floor — is an elaboration of this single posture.
“I NEVER want to have to manage the session state files ever again” — The acceptance criterion, stated as relief: success is measured by files the operator no longer has to touch, not by architecture elegance.
“I am ok with redundancy … Or maybe it's smarter to just have pointers- I don't know, and will leave that up to you” — The delegation: the operator fixes the goal and explicitly hands the mechanism to the board — the autonomy the AX close formalizes.
The prompt is written in the working vocabulary of the methodology. Here is what the shorthand means:
- KP
- Knowledge Pack — a self-contained reference document the board can pull in to ground a discussion in a specific domain.
- Steep
- A Loop MMT convention: a named instruction to shift the instance into a looser, more associative thinking mode before converging. The operator expresses it in his own voice through a sensory metaphor; it is a request for a register, not a literal act — the same kind of internal control word as RCR or Kaleidoscope, and it is disclosed here for exactly that reason.
- sensorium
- The methodology's cognitive-environment layer: a composed set of sensory channels (a “~discovery+grove” mix, here) that sets the working mood before the thinking starts.
- RCR
- A structured, multi-round deliberation pass (Recursive Companion Review) where the board argues a design from several angles before anything is committed.
- AX
- A close-out marker: “execute autonomously” — make the plumbing decisions yourself, only surface the real forks.