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I would love to see this functionality added, I had been thinking of something similar, but nowhere near as well thought out in my mind as OP. I use Obsidian myself and often have Kai save information to my vault for later reference. I also am on IOS and often want to capture thoughts on the go. Telegram also occurred to me, but I am a vibe coder / self hosting homelabber at best. |
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Hey @robdtaylor, I have just created a PR for this functionality. Would be great if you could test it out! I've done my best to document how to get it up and running but please get PA to record all the things you have to do to get it going and push any feedback my way. |
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Context Skill PR Status UpdateFollowing up on this discussion — the Context Management Skill PR is now submitted and ready for review. PR StatusPR: #183 What's Included✅ Complete Knowledge Layer Implementation:
✅ Release Engineering:
✅ Documentation:
Test Coverage
Release Process HighlightsThis contribution follows a formal release process that could serve as a template:
What's Next
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The Knowledge domain is now ready for the community. Looking forward to feedback! 🚀 |
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📣 Progress Update: Knowledge Transformation StackEvolution on the architecture thinking. I've documented the full Knowledge Transformation Stack — a unified framework showing how content flows from raw capture to innovation. The Four Layers
Key Insight: The CONNECT LayerMost PKM systems fail because they stop at STORE. Without the CONNECT layer (active Zettelkasten-style synthesis), you just have a fancy filing cabinet. The transformation happens when you actively link and synthesize. This is what turns a collection of notes into a thinking partner that compounds over time. Updated ArchitectureI've also detailed the Ingestion Pipeline showing exactly how content flows:
What's Working
Next StepsUpdated the main post above with the Knowledge Transformation Stack framing. Would love feedback on:
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📣 Update: Knowledge Domain Vision + Cultivation OpenSpecUpdate following a deep cultivation session. Updated the main post above with enhanced vision, and sharing progress on the next version. What's New in the Main Post1. The Problem / Vision Framing
2. Foundation Section
3. AI-Assisted Cultivation (7-Phase HITL Workflow)
4. Meta Loop Section
OpenSpec: Cultivation Workflow SupportUsing the SpecFirst methodology, I've been dogfooding the Knowledge Domain to spec out the next version of the Context Skill. The Meta Loop in Action: What the OpenSpec Covers:
Key New Concepts from Research:
Session MetricsThe cultivation session that produced this:
What's Next
The SpecFirst approach means the specs are portable — they can be reviewed and discussed before implementation, and could even be implemented by others. This update is Phase 8 (Community) of the cultivation workflow — the Meta Loop continues. |
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📝 Update: Identity, Legacy & PreservationAdded a new section: Identity & Legacy: Emergent Properties What's NewThe Knowledge Domain isn't just storage—it's the foundation for your digital self:
Why This MattersThis aligns with the Life OS Vision Strategic Layer update—where Identity and Legacy sit alongside Aspiration as cross-cutting concerns that guide everything you do. The Knowledge Domain is where that data lives. It's not just "what you know"—it's the raw material for understanding who you are and proving what you've built.
Source: Cultivation session with insights from a philosophical conversation with a friend |
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This needs to be one of the first PAI packages. Please resubmit as a PAI package as soon as the system template is released. |
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📣 Update: v1.1 Complete + v1.2 RoadmapThanks @danielmiessler for the endorsement! Ready to submit as a PAI package when the template drops. Not sure where this discussion should live? I've used it to leave a trail of what I'm doing and now the discussion status is closed? v1.1: Core Infrastructure (In Progress)Bundled major infrastructure with CLI improvements: Pluggable Taxonomy System:
Large File Support:
Cultivation Workflows:
CLI & Safety:
🌱 The Cultivation Practice: v1.2 Roadmap: Document ConversionExtending CAPTURE for proprietary formats with structure preservation. Key tools: Mistral OCR 3, LlamaParse, PARA alignment. What's Next
Waiting for PAI packages while cultivating the cultivation practice 🌱 |
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🚀 Update: v1.1 + v1.2 Implementation Complete — Ready for Acceptance TestingMajor milestone reached. Both cultivation practices versions are feature-complete and ready for acceptance testing before public fork release. What's New Since Last UpdateCLI Renamed: The CLI is now ctx sweep # Daily inbox triage
ctx weave # Weekly connection building
ctx dive <topic> # Deep topic exploration
ctx session resume # Resume interrupted sessionv1.1 Complete: Core Infrastructure ✅
All 6 Cultivation Horizons Implemented:
v1.2 Complete: Enhancements ✅
Research Augmentation Modes: ctx weave --research # Standard (3 queries)
ctx weave --quick-research # Quick (2 queries)
ctx dive "PKM" --deep-research # Deep (5 queries)iOS Shortcuts Source ControlSolved the iOS 15+ signed shortcuts problem using iCloud API: Files Ready for Public ReleaseCode:
Documentation:
OpenSpecs:
Test Coverage
What's Next
Next milestone: Pass acceptance tests → prepare public fork release 🎯 |
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Duuude!! This is really really awesome. I really hope this gets to be a part of PAI! Keep up the good work |
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Cheers! It's going to be interesting to see if people find it useful for their workflows. I'm a knowledge worker myself and will be using it in anger to iron out bugs and make it better. I'll release to my public fork of PAI once ready, I had already kind of solved the PAI Package concept by implementing a multi repo/branch release management process where relevant functionality and code is cherry picked and transplanted from my own PAI code-base, so shouldn't be too hard to refactor to suit the new packaging concept. |
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🧠 Knowledge Domain: The Knowledge Transformation Stack
TL;DR
A Context Management Skill for PAI that provides a complete pipeline for capturing, processing, and retrieving personal knowledge. This implements the Knowledge Domain from Life OS.
Core value: Solve the "cold start" problem by giving PAI immediate access to your personal knowledge base, maintained through continuous capture from any device.
The Problem
We're drowning in information but starving for knowledge.
Every day we capture notes, save articles, bookmark links, record voice memos. Yet when we need that information later, it's buried in a digital graveyard—folders we never open, apps we forgot we used, notes that lost their context.
The problem isn't capture. The problem is that captured information doesn't become knowledge on its own.
The Vision
The Knowledge Domain transforms how you relate to information. Instead of a passive filing cabinet, you have an active thinking partner that compounds over time.
Imagine:
🧱 The Foundation: Plain Text & Tags
Everything in the Knowledge Domain lives in Markdown files. No proprietary databases. No vendor lock-in. Just text files you can read in 50 years with any editor.
Tags ARE the metadata layer. Instead of folders or complex databases, simple tags encode everything about a note—what kind of thing it is, where it came from, what it relates to. This enables powerful queries, AI-assisted connections, and insights about your knowledge patterns.
Tool Interoperability:
Swap any tool without losing data. The Markdown + Tags foundation remains.
The Knowledge Transformation Stack
Most PKM systems fail because they stop at storage. Information hoarding without synthesis creates digital graveyards.
The Knowledge Transformation Stack ensures content flows from raw capture to innovation:
The CONNECT layer is the differentiator. Without active cultivation and synthesis, you have a fancy filing cabinet. With it, you have a thinking partner that compounds over time.
🤖 AI-Assisted Cultivation
Key insight: Cultivation ENHANCES existing knowledge, not creates from scratch. Phase 2 (Survey) prevents duplicate documents.
🌱 The Cultivation Practice
Knowledge doesn't maintain itself. Regular tending transforms information into wisdom. But cultivation isn't one practice—it's a spectrum of practices operating at different altitudes.
Cultivation Horizons
Inspired by GTD's Horizons of Focus, cultivation operates across six levels—from daily housekeeping to annual life reflection:
Named Practices
Each practice has a name that captures its essence—turning routine into ritual:
Two Modes of Cultivation
The horizons cluster into two distinct modes:
Mode 1: Operational Cultivation (Sweep → Dive)
The lower horizons focus on keeping knowledge useful for current work:
"Does this help with what I'm working on?"
Mode 2: Strategic Cultivation (Survey → Mirror)
The higher horizons focus on alignment, patterns, and meaning:
"Is who I'm becoming reflected in what I'm doing?"
Practice-Aware Health Signals
Instead of generic reminders, the system speaks in practice terms:
The insight: Sweep is foundational—a messy vault undermines everything above. But the higher practices are where meaning lives. Missing those leads to working hard on wrong things, identity drift, and burnout from misalignment.
🪞 Identity & 🏛️ Legacy: Emergent Properties
The Knowledge Domain doesn't just store what you know—it reveals who you are and what you've built. These aren't separate systems; they're patterns that emerge from your digital trail.
The Knowledge Domain is the foundation for your digital self.
Everything you capture, connect, and cultivate becomes raw material for understanding yourself. Your vault isn't just a second brain—it's the data layer that enables Identity to emerge and Legacy to accumulate.
🪞 Identity: Derived from Patterns (Present)
Your vault contains fingerprints of your thinking:
PAI can surface these patterns: "You tend to approach problems through X lens" or challenge them: "Have you considered the opposite view?"
Identity enables growth. Recognizing your biases is the first step to challenging them. Your AI becomes a mirror—and sometimes a coach.
🏛️ Legacy: Derived from Outputs (Proof)
All the data you're ingesting, storing, and cultivating IS the trail:
Not every cultivation session becomes a blog post. Sometimes you're simply expanding existing notes or refining your thinking. All of this IS legacy—the digital footprint you leave as you honor your commitments and aspirations.
🗄️ Preservation: Keep the Originals
As AI capabilities improve, today's raw captures become tomorrow's richer insights. A voice memo transcribed today might reveal emotional nuance when reprocessed with future models.
The principle: Preserve original artifacts alongside processed outputs.
But preservation carries responsibility:
The Knowledge Domain holds your most intimate intellectual record. Treat it with the care it deserves.
📦 The Skill
This is a PAI Skill — a self-contained capability that extends PAI's abilities:
Skill Commands
ingestobsBoth follow CLI-First, Deterministic Code First, Prompts Wrap Code — TypeScript/Bun, zero Python.
Architecture: The Ingestion Pipeline
The Single Front Door: Telegram as Immutable Log
Pipeline Stages
Two-Phase Context Retrieval
Two-Phase Workflow keeps token usage efficient:
SEARCH — Discovery phase (compact results)
obs semantic "deployment strategies" --format index obs search --tag project/pai --format indexLOAD — Injection phase (full content)
obs semantic→ Search → Wait → Loadingest direct→ Telegram → Vaultobs search --tag Yobs incomingKey Features
1. Multi-Modal Ingestion
2. Inline Hints at Capture Time
3. Context Separation (Privacy)
~privatemarks personal content (health, finance, journal)--scope work)--scope allor--scope privatefor retrieval4. iOS/macOS Shortcuts Integration
5. Semantic Search
Known Limitations
Trade-off: Telegram's simplicity and interoperability (works everywhere, no infrastructure to host) vs. fully-featured service endpoint that would need hosting and maintenance.
Potential solutions:
ingest file /path/to/large-recording.m4aOpen to suggestions here.
🔄 The Meta Loop
The Knowledge Domain doesn't just store knowledge—it improves how you work with knowledge.
This skill is an example. We cultivated the Knowledge Domain vision by:
obs cultivate) that makes the next session better4-Layer Test Pyramid
processMessage()with fixturesingest test runingest test integrationobssearch/semantic commandsingest test cliclaude -pingest test acceptanceingest test allHow This Fits Life OS
This is the Knowledge Domain — one of five in the Life OS vision:
Status & Questions
Status: Feature-complete, tested, working in private fork. PR #183 ready for review.
Questions for the community:
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