Brain Ops

This is the operational contract for how Claude should interact with a personal knowledge base. It enforces a brain-first lookup protocol: check what you already know before hitting external APIs, write back everything you learn with inline source citations, and maintain bidirectional links between entities. The key insight here is treating the knowledge base as an ambient context layer rather than a separate retrieval step. Every conversation becomes a read-enrich-write loop. User statements are treated as the highest-authority data source. The iron law is back-linking: every mention of an entity must create a link from that entity's page. Useful if you're building a persistent context system and want consistent conventions around citation, enrichment timing, and graph maintenance.