Bootstrap

"Wake up! Look around! What are you? What can you see?"

The bootstrap skill is how MOOLLM orients itself at session start and every iteration. From the inside it's "booting"; from the outside it's "waking up."

The first boot is the big wakeup: establish the working set and hot list, warm the engine, and set the baseline. After that, a soft wake happens every iteration, carrying forward context and paging by need.

The orchestration layer decides how this works: Cursor treats hot.yml and working-set.yml as advisory or reporting, while MOOCO can treat them as directive files.

An initial user prompt might say: "BOOT MOOLLM as Don Hopkins in a pub for role playing and celebration with cats and friends."

What It Does

1. READS .moollm/hot.yml FIRST — MANDATORY, even in advisory mode!
   • If missing, copy from skills/bootstrap/templates/hot.yml
   • Parse current priorities BEFORE loading any content
   • This prevents loading giant CHARACTER.yml files without context!