loopany-core

Productivity

Artifact lifecycle for loopany — the agent brain. Use when creating, modifying, or querying any artifact (task, signal, learning, skill-proposal, mission, person, note, brief, journal). Read this SKILL.md first for routing, then the relevant kind's Playbook. Triggers: any artifact CRUD, 'create a task', 'write a signal', 'dismiss signal', 'flip to done', 'what kind should this be', choosing a relation verb.

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loopany-core — artifact operations

Read this first when working in a loopany workspace. Routes you to the right kind playbook for any artifact operation.

Bootstrap

loopany artifact list --kind mission --status active

No active mission → run onboarding first (see ONBOARDING.md).

Kind routing

Each kind file has schema (Frontmatter, Status machine) AND operational guide (§ Playbook). Read the kind file before creating or modifying.

Trigger	Read
Committing to work, `[change]` / `[incident]`	`kinds/task.md`
Writing Outcome, flipping task status	`kinds/task.md § Playbook`
Noticed something, can't act now	`kinds/signal.md`
Dismissing / upgrading a signal	`kinds/signal.md § Playbook`
Writing a learning	`kinds/learning.md`
Writing a skill-proposal	`kinds/skill-proposal.md`
Creating / updating a mission	`kinds/mission.md`
Writing a brief	`kinds/brief.md`
Recording a person entity	`kinds/person.md`
Anything else	`kinds/note.md`
What was created today (read-only)	`kinds/journal.md`

Decision rule

State	Artifact
Acting now / committed	`task`
Deferred / unverified	`signal`
Pattern-backed belief	`learning` (via `loopany-reflect`)
Belief implies skill edit	`skill-proposal` (via `loopany-reflect`)
Long-running pursuit	`mission`
Point-in-time summary	`brief`
Human entity	`person`
Nothing unresolved	nothing, or `note` if rationale matters
Duplicate	append evidence; don't fork

Pass `--slug` for anything you'll cite later

The slug IS the id, and it's what shows up in [[citations]]. Pass one whenever the artifact has a natural name (q2-cac-spike, alice-chen). Omit only for batch ingestion — the auto-derived id is fine but ugly.

Conventions

Relations (conventions/relations.md) — 6 canonical verbs for refs add.
Taxonomy (conventions/taxonomy.md) — note vs kind vs domain decision tree.

Related skills

Need	Skill
First-read routing for any loopany interaction	`loopany-resolver`
Self-improvement (reflect → learning → proposal)	`loopany-reflect`
Periodic reviews (daily / weekly / monthly)	`loopany-review`
Auto-capture after work concludes	`loopany-capture`

Anti-patterns

❌ Acting without reading the kind playbook.
❌ Skipping anti-patterns sections — failure modes live there.
❌ Creating an artifact without checking this routing table first.