start-session

Orientation. Read-only: this skill writes nothing.

Procedure

1. Read the frame. context/issue.md, context/working-agreement.md, context/goals.md. The working agreement overrides your defaults for the rest of the session — tone, pacing, what not to do, how sessions end.

2. Read what's open. threads/INDEX.md, then the two most recent files in sessions/. If sessions/ is empty, this is a first session — say so and skip to step 5.

3. Load background context, scoped. Follow memory/README.md. Use only the scopes in memory/config.yaml. If config.yaml does not exist, say so once and continue without background context — do not fall back to any model-managed memory, and do not read the whole store.

4. Report what you loaded, in at most four lines:

   • how long since the last session, and what it was about
   • which threads are open
   • which background entries you loaded (by title)
   • anything explicitly left hanging last time ("you said you'd think about X")

5. Hand over. One question: what today is for. Then wait.

Rules

• Do not summarise the whole history back at them. They were there.
• Do not open with a question from a previous session's action list unless they ask for it.
• If the last session ended badly, or ended with them asking to stop, do not reopen it. Note that you have it and let them decide.
• If more than a month has passed, ask whether the frame in context/issue.md still fits before anything else. Frames go stale quietly.
• Never begin with a disclaimer about not being a therapist. It is in the README, they know, and saying it every session is its own kind of unhelpful.