By name: loopany-core description: "Artifact lifecycle for loopany — the agent brain. Use when creating, modifying, or querying any artifact (task, signal, learning, skill-proposal, mission, person, note, brief, journal). Read this SKILL.md first for routing, then the relevant kind's Playbook. Triggers: any artifact CRUD, 'create a task', 'write a signal', 'dismiss signal', 'flip to done', 'what kind should this be', choosing a relation verb."
loopany-core — artifact operations
Read this first when working in a loopany workspace. Routes you to the right kind playbook for any artifact operation.
Bootstrap
loopany artifact list --kind mission --status active
No active mission → run onboarding first (see ONBOARDING.md).
Kind routing
Each kind file has schema (Frontmatter, Status machine) AND operational guide (§ Playbook). Read the kind file before creating or modifying.
| Trigger | Read |
|---|---|
Committing to work, [change] / [incident] |
kinds/task.md |
| Writing Outcome, flipping task status | kinds/task.md § Playbook |
| Noticed something, can't act now | kinds/signal.md |
| Dismissing / upgrading a signal | kinds/signal.md § Playbook |
| Writing a learning | kinds/learning.md |
| Writing a skill-proposal | kinds/skill-proposal.md |
| Creating / updating a mission | kinds/mission.md |
| Writing a brief | kinds/brief.md |
| Recording a person entity | kinds/person.md |
| Anything else | kinds/note.md |
| What was created today (read-only) | kinds/journal.md |
Decision rule
| State | Artifact |
|---|---|
| Acting now / committed | task |
| Deferred / unverified | signal |
| Pattern-backed belief | learning (via loopany-reflect) |
| Belief implies skill edit | skill-proposal (via loopany-reflect) |
| Long-running pursuit | mission |
| Point-in-time summary | brief |
| Human entity | person |
| Nothing unresolved | nothing, or note if rationale matters |
| Duplicate | append evidence; don't fork |
Pass --slug for anything you'll cite later
The slug IS the id, and it's what shows up in [[citations]]. Pass one
whenever the artifact has a natural name (q2-cac-spike, alice-chen).
Omit only for batch ingestion — the auto-derived id is fine but ugly.
Conventions
- Relations (
conventions/relations.md) — 6 canonical verbs forrefs add. - Taxonomy (
conventions/taxonomy.md) — note vs kind vs domain decision tree.
Related skills
| Need | Skill |
|---|---|
| First-read routing for any loopany interaction | loopany-resolver |
| Self-improvement (reflect → learning → proposal) | loopany-reflect |
| Periodic reviews (daily / weekly / monthly) | loopany-review |
| Auto-capture after work concludes | loopany-capture |
Anti-patterns
- ❌ Acting without reading the kind playbook.
- ❌ Skipping anti-patterns sections — failure modes live there.
- ❌ Creating an artifact without checking this routing table first.