Use your brain every day
A brain is durable context for your work. It keeps the facts, decisions, and next steps that should survive a chat ending or a device changing. It is not a transcript of every conversation.
Start with the brain, not a blank chat
At the start of work, ask your AI to call start_here for the brain you are working in. It loads that brain’s guide, recent activity, and open tasks. Before creating a new note, search or read what is already there. Before you finish, record the decision or next step that someone will need later.
Prompts that work
Paste one of these to get a session started on the right foot.
Start a session
Call start_here on my brain, then tell me what is open and what you would do first.Check before answering
Search my brain for anything about <topic> before you answer.Close out a session
Before we finish: append what we decided to decisions.md and update the next action in overview.md.Your BRAIN.md is yours
A new brain comes with a starter guide. Treat it as a prompt to describe how you actually work, not as a template you must obey. Write down the structure, naming, and session habits that fit your team. Future AI sessions use that guide when they begin.
Use simple note patterns
Start small. An overview can hold the current status and one next action. A decision log can explain why a choice was made. A session log can say what changed and where to resume. Keep the patterns that help and change the ones that do not.
Work with other people carefully
A person must sign in once before an owner can add them to a brain (see below). Owners manage members, editors can write notes, and viewers can read. Membership is a trust boundary: everyone in a brain can expose its content to their AI sessions, and a writer can add text another member’s agent may later read. Roles, sharing mechanics, and what is not yet supported are covered fully in Data.
Sign in before you're added
An invited person has to sign in once, themselves, before the brain owner can add them as a member. Adding someone who has never signed in returns “not registered”: have them connect first, then an owner can add their email from Access in the web app or with the add_member tool.
Keep a copy of your data
The web app’s Data page can export a brain as a zip of plain markdown files. It also handles a bulk import: choose a folder or zip, review the proposed changes, and confirm before notes are written. Use the connector for day-to-day note work; use the web app when you need to move a whole collection in or out.