Brain Operations — The Ambient Context Layer

Recall relevant context before responding. Save explicit requests with provenance; automatic capture is off until the user opts in. Reading this skill does not enable capture, delegation, or paid enrichment. A chat-only instruction suppresses writes for that turn, including when standing capture is enabled.

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.