Brain Operations — The Ambient Context Layer

The brain is not an archive. It is a live context membrane that every interaction flows through in both directions.

Convention: See skills/conventions/brain-first.md for the 5-step lookup protocol. Convention: See skills/conventions/quality.md for citation and back-link rules.

Contract

This skill guarantees:

• Brain is checked BEFORE any external API call (brain-first lookup)
• Every inbound signal triggers the READ → ENRICH → WRITE loop
• Every outbound response checks brain for relevant context
• Source attribution on every fact written (inline [Source: ...] citations)
• User's direct statements are highest-authority data
• Back-links maintained on every brain write (Iron Law)

Iron Law: Back-Linking (MANDATORY)