raw/
Append-only source material. Untrusted by default. The compile gate sits after it.
The codex sits above every door.
The durable principles layer that outlives any single workspace: reference material you can inspect and adopt, alongside principles earned from your own work. A PM door and a Personal door cite the same codex.
Α what it is
One layer, above any single domain.
Your domain workspaces hold your current state: what is true now, per door. The codex holds what survives across them and across time. It is unaffiliated with any one domain and serves every door in your installation — open a second door tomorrow and it draws on the same codex you have already grown.
This is the half of your data, your codex, your moat the moat story rests on. The workspace is where you work; the codex is where your taste accumulates.
Β it is gated
Keep principles you can stand behind.
Compiling untrusted source material produces a proposal for your review. Promoting a principle into the codex requires a separate approval. These checks help keep a source claim or a single experience from becoming an unquestioned rule.
compiled/
Curated current state, per domain. The promote-to-codex gate sits after it.
codex/
Durable principles, above every door. Promotion is reviewed, never automatic.
Γ seeded, not blank
You start with a codex, not a blank page.
The default installation includes a reference collection covering judgment, AI practice, leadership, and product work. These seeds are available to inspect before adoption. Setup does not personalize them from a list of people you name, and they are not treated as principles you have earned simply because they were installed.
Δ yours, and it travels
Export it. Run any model. Keep it.
The codex is structured Markdown on your own disk, the same as the rest of the workspace. Export it whenever you like. Run any model against it. Move to a different tool when the next one arrives, and the codex you have built comes with you.
Whatever frontier model arrives next is just better fuel for the codex you have already built. The moat is yours, not ours.
Build the codex once. Carry it through every door, every model, every tool that comes next.