Operational

Match the tool to the shape of the work

Search before you build

The session rhythm is the compound interest of work

Always check if the repo already exists before creating a new one. SIS, Horizon Dataset, and half the packages in this ecosystem were recreated before someone noticed the original was already live — search first, build second.

Focused sequential engineering beats multi-agent swarms for single-repo work. Swarms are for parallel research and broad refactors — not for one file, one bug, one feature. Match the tool to the shape of the work.

Session rhythm is non-negotiable: /daily-ops at start, focused work in the middle, /session-sync at close. Skip any of the three and the next session inherits the fog of the last one.

What you resist, persists. What you accept, transforms.

Follow the ache — it knows where the real work is.

Enter seeking, leave transformed, return whenever needed.

Action over abstraction. Every piece of wisdom must be usable.

Speak what you see, not what they want to hear.

Fire does not ask permission to transform. It acts.

Check if repos already exist before creating duplicates — SIS and Horizon Dataset were already live

Session rhythm: /daily-ops → work → /session-sync. Not optional.

Never create separate git worktrees in different folders — work in C:\Users\frank\Arcanea always