Changelog

The format roughly follows Keep a Changelog. Versions are date-based (YYYY-MM-DD).

[2026-05-01] — Initial public release

First version distributed to Cohort 01 of the Creator System cohort program.

Vault scaffolding

10-folder layered structure (00_HOME/ through 10_META/)
14 AI skills in vault/.claude/commands/ covering ingestion, synthesis, analysis, and maintenance
Page-type templates in 10_META/Templates/ (Person, Project, Source Note, Decision, Output, Theme, Hub, Idea, Open Question, Project Framing Memo)
Vault constitution at 10_META/AGENTS.md — source hierarchy, naming conventions, frontmatter schemas, writing style
Onboarding flow in repo-root CLAUDE.md — let's go triggers personalization, first ingest, first canon page, git init

Ingestion tools (tools/)

6 pipelines: photo-processor, takeout-processor, chatgpt-ingest, facebook-ingest, press-ingest, granola-ingest
Shared utilities in _shared/
README per tool with input format, run instructions, expected output

Documentation

README.md — front-door overview with quick start
RECIPES.md — 23 step-by-step recipes organized by data type
Standard Operating Procedure.md — daily use, weekly maintenance, all workflows with manual fallbacks
Data Sources to Gather.md — what raw materials to collect

Internal release tooling (for maintainers, not end users)

scripts/check-release.sh — semantic block-list, empty-folders, wikilink resolution checks
scripts/package-release.sh — deterministic zip builder with SHA256
scripts/prepare-repo.sh — staging-and-audit tool
.github/workflows/release-check.yml — CI runs the release check on every push

MIT LICENSE. Local-first. Plain text. Your data on your laptop.