voice-note-ingest, Exact-Phrasing Voice Capture

Convention: see conventions/quality.md for citation rules, back-link enforcement, and exact-phrasing requirements.

Convention: see _brain-filing-rules.md for the filing decision protocol.

Iron Law

The user's exact words are the insight. Never paraphrase. Never clean up. The vivid, unpolished, stream-of-consciousness phrasing captures something that cleaned-up prose does not. Preserve it in block quotes. The Analysis section can interpret; the transcript section is sacred.

• ✅ "The ambition-to-lifespan ratio has never been more fucked"
• ❌ User noted the tension between ambition and mortality

When to invoke

The user sends an audio or voice message via any channel (Telegram, voice memo upload, openclaw audio attachment). The host agent typically provides the transcript text. If not, transcribe it with your host's transcription tool (Groq Whisper is fast and cheap; OpenAI Whisper works too, segment audio > 25MB via ffmpeg first).

The pipeline

1. STORE       → Upload original audio to gbrain storage backend
                 (S3 / Supabase Storage / local, pluggable per
                 src/core/storage.ts).
2. TRANSCRIBE  → Use the agent-provided transcript verbatim, OR
                 transcribe the audio yourself (see "When to invoke")
                 if no transcript was supplied.
3. ROUTE       → Apply the decision tree (below) to find the right
                 destination directory.
4. WRITE       → Create / update the destination brain page; preserve the
                 verbatim transcript in a block-quoted "User's Words"
                 section.
5. CROSS-LINK  → For every entity mentioned (person, company), add a
                 timeline back-link from THEIR brain page to THIS one
                 (Iron Law per conventions/quality.md).

Decision tree (where the content goes)