Work Artifacts

Active artifacts live in the work directory — the shared state between you, the user, and other agents. If understanding is not on disk, it does not survive. Write findings, decisions, and design artifacts as you produce them. Commit frequently — sessions crash and compact.

Finding the Work Directory

Spawns get $MERIDIAN_ACTIVE_WORK_DIR automatically. Use meridian work current if the env var is stale or unset (env vars don't update mid-session).

Starting Work

Not every spawn needs a work item — small direct tasks can run without one. When a task needs work-scoped artifacts or lifecycle tracking: