Ingest Skill

Ingest meetings, articles, media, documents, and conversations into the brain.

Filing rule: Read skills/_brain-filing-rules.md before creating any new page.

Contract

• Every fact written to a brain page carries an inline [Source: ...] citation with date and provenance.
• Every entity mention creates a back-link from the entity's page to the page mentioning them (Iron Law).
• Raw sources are preserved for provenance via gbrain files upload-raw with automatic size routing.
• State sections are rewritten with current best understanding, never appended to.
• After the user's explicit automatic-capture opt-in (see skills/signal-detector/SKILL.md), entity detection fires on every substantive inbound message; notable entities get pages or updates. Without that opt-in, capture only what the user asks to save.
• Notability gate before any new entity page: existing pages are updated, and a NEW page is created only for a notable entity and only with meaningful content from web search or existing brain context, no stubs. A non-notable mention stays an inline reference on the page that mentions it.

Convention: See skills/conventions/quality.md for Iron Law back-linking.

Every mention of a person or company with a brain page MUST create a back-link FROM that entity's page TO the page mentioning them. An unlinked mention is a broken brain. See skills/_brain-filing-rules.md for format.

Citation Requirements (MANDATORY)

Every fact written to a brain page must carry an inline [Source: ...] citation.

• User's statements: [Source: User, {context}, YYYY-MM-DD]
• Meeting data: [Source: Meeting "{title}", YYYY-MM-DD]
• Email/message: [Source: email from {name} re: {subject}, YYYY-MM-DD]
• Web content: [Source: {publication}, {URL}, YYYY-MM-DD]
• Social media: [Source: X/@handle, YYYY-MM-DD](URL) (include link)
• Synthesis: [Source: compiled from {sources}]

Phases