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Second Brain Starter Kit — wiki

The repository is the box. This wiki is the map: how the parts fit, what to do in your first week, and which traps are known.

Written in English on purpose — the repo's README.md is in Russian, and this is the surface an English-speaking reader can start from. Where a page points at a file, the file is the source of truth; nothing here is a copy of it.

What is actually in the box

Counted from the repository, not from memory:

Layer	Where	Size	What it is
Rules	CLAUDE-EXTERNAL.md, SEED.md, BOOTSTRAP-CLAUDE.md	3 files	how the assistant is told to behave, and the first message that starts everything
Skills	skills/	101 SKILL.md files	one /command each — map: skills/INDEX.md
Engines	engines/	246 Python files (49 in scripts/, 197 in imports/)	the code the skills actually call — passports: engines/PASSPORTS.md
Memory	templates/, crm-template/	13 note templates + a CRM with 4 reference scripts	where the output is kept so it stops being lost

Start here

You are	Read this
A person who wants this running on their laptop	First week
An engineer sizing up the design before copying anything	Architecture
Already running your own fleet and want the whole snapshot	HANDOVER.md in the repo
About to adapt a skill and hit a %VAULT% placeholder	Adapting it to your machine

What this kit is not

It is the single-machine kit. The network half of the original system — the machine-to-machine bus, the consensus protocol, the fleet skills — is deliberately out of the box and lives in its own repository: claude-consensus. The governance codex the rules come from is claude-bible.

It is also method, not data. Personal content was substituted, not stripped — see docs/WHAT-IS-SHARED.md.

Known gaps, stated up front

• docs/ONBOARDING.md describes a different repository. Its 30-minute route sends you to 05-Protocols-Bible/, 01-Concepts/, crm-lite/, 06-Templates/ and 00-MOCs/ — none of those directories exist here. Tracked as issue #1; use First week until it is fixed.
• The engines are samples, not a working install. Every file carries a banner saying so. See Adapting it to your machine.
• Skill descriptions still name the original operator's machines, chats and people. They were written inside a live system; the values are fakes of the same shape, but the shapes are real and you will want to replace them with yours.

The deal

Take the files, the rules, the skills, the templates — whole or in pieces, with or without attribution. Questions and field reports go in Issues.