OpenViking Resources

Resources are documents a user added to OpenViking (files, repos, URLs). They live in a file tree under viking://resources/ (and sometimes viking://user/<id>/resources/ for user-private ones). Each directory has two summaries next to its files:

• .abstract.md, one paragraph: what the directory holds (L0)
• .overview.md, a structured overview of its contents (L1)

Read summaries first and open full files last. The summaries exist so you can decide where to look without reading everything.

Pick the tool

You know…	Use
roughly what it is about	find(query, target_uri="viking://resources")
an exact word, name, or error string	grep(uri, pattern=[...])
a file name or extension	glob(pattern, uri) e.g. **/*.pdf
where it is	list(uri) and read(uris)

Default to find. Scope it with target_uri as soon as you know which resource you are in, narrower scopes give better hits. Use search instead of find only when the question is vague and needs intent analysis.

Drill down

1. find returns URIs with a score. A hit on <dir>/.abstract.md means the whole directory matched, not that the answer is in the abstract.
2. read that directory's .overview.md to see what is inside.
3. list the directory, or run a scoped find/grep inside it, to reach the specific file.
4. read the file. For long files, grep first and then read with offset/limit around the match.

Stop as soon as you have what the task needs. Two or three targeted reads beat ten broad ones.

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