Repo Architecture — Filing Rules

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Where new brain files go. Decision protocol for filing brain pages by primary subject, not by format or source. Reference for all brain-writing skills.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Repo Architecture skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by inbrainfun/inbrain in skills/repo-architecture/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Full filing rules: See skills/_brain-filing-rules.md

Contract

This skill guarantees:

  • Every new page is filed by primary subject (not format, not source)
  • The decision protocol is followed for ambiguous cases
  • Common misfiling patterns are caught

Phases

  1. Identify the primary subject. What would you search for to find this page?
  2. Walk the decision tree:
    • About a person → people/{name-slug}.md
    • About a company → companies/{name-slug}.md
    • A reusable concept/framework → concepts/{slug}.md
    • An original idea → originals/{slug}.md
    • A meeting → meetings/{slug}.md
    • Media content → media/{type}/{slug}.md
    • Raw data import → sources/{slug}.md
  3. Cross-link. Link from related directories.
  4. Check notability. See skills/conventions/quality.md notability gate.

Output Format

Advisory: "File this at {type}/{slug}.md because the primary subject is {reason}."

Anti-Patterns

  • Filing by format ("it's a PDF so it goes in sources/")
  • Filing by source ("it came from email so it goes in sources/")
  • Creating pages without checking if one already exists
  • Using sources/ for anything except raw data dumps

Signals

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Item type
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Key
repo-architecture
Source
github.com/inbrainfun/inbrain