Knowledge Stack

Nick's durable knowledge lives in two kinds of place: per-repo trackers (code-adjacent) and three Basic Memory projects (everything else). Stored memory summaries are lossy snapshots of these; the artifacts below are the real truth. Consult them before reasoning.

The Layers

Per-repo dev work → the repo's own tracker, not Basic Memory.

• Architecture, implementation plans, active tasks, roadmap-of-code.
• Tracker depends on the repo: Cortex uses backlog.md (backlog doc list, backlog task list; see the backlog-md skill). The atlas-crew repos — Facet plus the security repos Apparatus, Chimera, Crucible, Synapse, Bridge — use GitHub Issues + Projects (gh issue, gh project; see the atlas-crew-tasks skill). Don't assume backlog.md everywhere — check the repo.

Atlas Crew product work → the products Basic Memory project (~/Obsidian/Product_Management).

• Product strategy, brand, positioning, pricing, GTM, planning, specs, PM docs — the product layer, not the code layer.
• Organized by Atlas Crew family: Security (Synapse, Chimera, Crucible, Bridge, Apparatus), Career Intel (Facet), Dev Tools (Cortex and utilities), Writing (Hard Stuff blog). The root Product Management Vault Home.md is the map.
• _Archive/ holds frozen history (old job-search material, captured sessions). Treat as read-only context, not current state.

The Unanet job → the work Basic Memory project (~/Obsidian/Work, under unanet/).

• Personal working-memory for Nick's Senior Platform Release Engineer role: journal/ (append-only daily firehose), systems/, glossary, open-questions, observations-about-me, etc. Its README defines the capture workflow.
• This project syncs to Nick's work laptop. The bar for what goes here is "fine if a coworker glanced over my shoulder." Candid people-notes, political tripwires, and customer/contract/proprietary specifics stay in segregated local-only files outside this vault — never write them into the synced work project. When in doubt, append to today's journal and route later; when sensitive, keep it out.