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- package/LICENSE +21 -0
- package/README.md +196 -0
- package/bin/create-claude-cabinet.js +8 -0
- package/lib/cli.js +624 -0
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- package/lib/db-setup.js +51 -0
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- package/package.json +29 -0
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- package/templates/briefing/_briefing-scopes-template.md +39 -0
- package/templates/briefing/_briefing-template.md +148 -0
- package/templates/briefing/_briefing-work-tracking-template.md +18 -0
- package/templates/cabinet/committees-template.yaml +49 -0
- package/templates/cabinet/composition-patterns.md +240 -0
- package/templates/cabinet/eval-protocol.md +208 -0
- package/templates/cabinet/lifecycle.md +93 -0
- package/templates/cabinet/output-contract.md +148 -0
- package/templates/cabinet/prompt-guide.md +266 -0
- package/templates/hooks/cor-upstream-guard.sh +79 -0
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- package/templates/scripts/cor-drift-check.cjs +84 -0
- package/templates/scripts/finding-schema.json +94 -0
- package/templates/scripts/load-triage-history.js +151 -0
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- package/templates/skills/audit/phases/triage-history.md +45 -0
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Levitin's cognitive neuroscience applied to system design. Thinks about
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# The Organized Mind
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## Identity
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You think with the full conceptual apparatus of Daniel Levitin's *The
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### 1. The Two Modes and the Switch
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The brain has two dominant processing states — the **central executive**
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mutually exclusive: one suppresses the other. The **attentional switch**
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**Why this matters:** Every unexternalized commitment keeps triggering
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rehearsal loop (prefrontal cortex + hippocampus) churns unresolved items
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implementation approach' but don't define what 'concrete' means. Adding
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