ultimate-brain 0.5.0 → 0.6.0

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  | Kind | What it usually yields | Different from minutes |
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- | `document` (brief, contract, report, deck) | Facts and their changes, decisions the document records, people with roles, open questions and risks; with a Keep, only one `reference` note (below) | A decision's `date` is the date the document gives for it, else the document's date. When the document is about a project, propose one `add_to_note` on the project: what the document is, in 1–2 sentences, with a link to the source (relative to the project note). A document about an area only, or about work that has no project note, gets none: its Inbox row already files it, and the report suggests creating the project in Notion when the work deserves one. Action items only where the document assigns them |
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+ | `document` (brief, contract, report, deck) | Facts and their changes, decisions the document records, people with roles, open questions and risks; and, when it is kept as a document, its Documents (below) | A decision's `date` is the date the document gives for it, else the document's date. When the document is about a project, propose one `add_to_note` on the project: what the document is, in 1–2 sentences, with a link to the source (relative to the project note). A document about an area only, or about work that has no project note, gets none: its Inbox row already files it, and the report suggests creating the project in Notion when the work deserves one. Action items only where the document assigns them |
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  | `email`, `chat` | Decisions and facts stated in the thread, people, questions | Who said what matters: attribute a decision to its sender (`deciders`) only when the thread shows they decided. A thread that reports a decision made elsewhere ("the launch moves to March") still yields the decision note if it passes the gate. A quoted earlier message is part of the thread, not a new statement |
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  | `note` | Whatever the user wrote: facts, ideas, people | The user's own words: no `^[ambiguous]` against the user's other notes; a disagreement with the brain is a `contradiction` |
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  | `capture` | Usually one thing: a fact, an idea, a person, a to-do | A fact about an existing note → `update_fact`; an idea or method → a `concept` note (`summary`, `sources`, and `area`, `projects` or `tags` when the capture says what it belongs to); a new person → a person note; the owner's own to-do → a task (below). Nothing durable is a valid result. **A capture holding a pasted email or chat thread** is analysed with the `email`/`chat` row instead (sources.md) |
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- ### Keep: what the user wants from a document (decision 0045)
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+ ### Documents: keeping an input as a page (decisions 0045, 0049) *(Documents)*
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- A `document`, `email`, `chat` or `note` source may carry a **Keep**: what the user wants from it ("just the requirements", "the price list and the deadlines"), from the Inbox row's Keep or the catch-up's question. It goes on the source as `keep`, as written. A capture has no Keep of its own; a file attached to it does.
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+ A Document is a `reference` note shown in Notion's Documents database: something the user wants to read and refer to from any database. The extraction above runs **either way**: keeping an input as a page never stops its decisions, questions and facts from being taken out (decision 0049). There are three kinds, by `origin`:
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- - **Keep is empty or "all":** today's full extraction, as above.
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- - **Keep names something:** extract **only** that, into **one `reference` note** and nothing else: no decision, question, person or concept notes, no `add_to_note` on the project, no tasks. Everything else in the source stays in the brain, unread, and the user can ask for it later ("take the budget from the Acme doc too"), which is a new ingest of the same source with that Keep.
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+ - **`whole`:** the input is to be kept and **Only keep is empty** (Document asked on its Inbox row, "all" in the drop folder's question, "keep the Acme brief as a document" in chat). One Document per source, its body the source's body **byte for byte** (the CLI checks the hash): copy the source's body, never retype or tidy it.
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+ - `title`: the input's title without the kind ("Acme website brief"), `frontmatter`: `origin: whole`, `summary` (one line: what the file is), `sources: [<that one source id>]`, and `area` and `projects` from the row or the project the input is about;
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+ - it needs **no Review**: the CLI writes it as `reviewed`, and it never goes in `review_notes`;
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+ - an Inbox row **with files attached** keeps each **file**, not the capture's text: one `whole` Document per attached source (`attached_to` = the row's source);
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+ - a second `whole` of the same source is skipped as `ALREADY_KEPT`: fine.
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+ - **`part`:** Only keep names something ("the requirements table and the deadlines"; or "also keep the budget from the Acme doc" in chat, from the source the brain already has). One Document holding only that:
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  - `title`: what it is, named for its subject: "Acme website: requirements", "Globex: price list";
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- - `frontmatter`: `summary` (one line: what it holds and from which document, without a version or date, so a new version doesn't make it stale), `sources: [<the source id>]`, and `projects` or `area` from the project or area the document is about;
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- - body: the kept content, as a Markdown list or table, in the document's order and wording; every figure, date and name exactly as stated. No commentary, no links of your own. Under the list, nothing: the source is in `sources`;
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- - it is a new note like any other: it goes in the input's `review_notes`.
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- - **A new version of a document whose reference exists** (the source has `replaces`, sources.md "New versions"): never a second reference. Read the old reference's body, change only the lines the new version changes (`brain source diff` says which), and propose the result as an `update_body` on that reference: `content` = the whole new body, every unchanged line copied exactly, so the Review row shows only the lines that differ. `why` names what changed ("Requirement 4: deadline 1 Mar → 15 Mar"). It goes in the new source's `review_notes` as a lettered item. A new version that changes nothing the Keep names proposes nothing.
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+ - `frontmatter`: `origin: part`, `summary` (one line: what it holds and from which document, without a version or date, so a new version doesn't make it stale), `sources: [<the source id>]`, and `area` and `projects`;
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+ - body: the kept content, as a Markdown list or table, in the document's order and wording; every figure, date and name exactly as stated. No commentary, no links of your own;
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+ - it is a draft like any new note: it goes in the input's `review_notes` (for a request on a source already in the brain, a new `review_notes` with that source).
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+ - **`promoted`:** Promote asked on a decision or concept (a `promote_requests` item). One Document seeded from the note, linked to it:
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+ - `title`: the note's title, `frontmatter`: `origin: promoted`, `promoted_from: <the note id>`, `summary` = the note's summary, and the note's `area`, `projects` and `sources` copied;
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+ - body: the note's summary, a blank line, then the note's body;
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+ - the CLI gives it the note's lifecycle, and it needs no Review. From then on **its body is the user's**: never propose an `update_body` on it.
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+ The source records what the user asked to keep in `only_keep` (cli-inputs.md §1b), so a new version knows it.
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+ **A new version of a file that has a Document** (the source has `replaces`, sources.md "New versions"): never a second Document. Read the Document's body, change only the lines the new version changes (`brain source diff` says which), and propose the result as an `update_body` on that Document: `content` = the whole new body, every unchanged line copied exactly, so the Review row shows only the lines that differ. `why` names what changed ("Requirement 4: deadline 1 Mar → 15 Mar"). It goes in the new source's `review_notes` as a lettered item. A new version that changes nothing a `part` Document keeps proposes nothing for it.
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+ - a changed value (a date, an amount, a name, a role) held as a fact → `update_fact` on that note, `before` = the old value, `after` = the new, `why` = the new line ("launch in February" → "launch in March": `launch_date` 2027-02 → 2027-03);
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+ - a changed statement in a note's text ("in a transition period" → "done with the transition period") → one `add_to_note` worded as the correction, naming what it replaces: "Correction (fixed minutes, 2026-10-27): the team is done with the transition period; the earlier minutes said it was still in it." No proposal kind rewrites a note's body (only a Document's `update_body`), so also name the note under Check with the old wording: "Acme sync's text still says 'in a transition period'; the correction is added below it";
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  - a new line that passes the rules above → a new note or a change, as in a first ingest. For a meeting, a new decision or question is a `new_item` (the meeting note already exists);
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  - a removed or reversed line that a note rests on (a decision the minutes no longer record, a misheard name) → never archive or rewrite that note yourself. Name it under the report's Check, with what to do ("Use Firebase for auth rests on a line the corrected minutes removed: reject it in Review if it's still pending, or say 'archive it'").
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  Do these in order, after the ingest commit: pages first, so every task's project, meeting or Inbox row exists when the task is created.
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+ **One write, final content** (U-18). Every write carries the page's real content: never create a page with a placeholder ("…", "TBD", "content to follow") to fill it in later, and never write a body in pieces that leave the page half-written between turns. A body goes in the create call, or in one append right after it; a body longer than one append allows (100 blocks, 2000 characters a block) goes in consecutive appends of real content, in order, in the same turn. If a write fails partway, report it: the next render produces the page again.
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  - **Meeting and Inbox relations with `"mode": "add"`:** add the listed pages and keep the existing ones.
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- - **`body` (decisions, questions, concepts, references):** replace the page body with it.
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+ - **`body` (decisions, questions, concepts, Documents):** replace the page body with it. A `promoted` Document has a `body` only on `create`; on `update` it is `null`, and its page body is the user's (decision 0049).
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  - **`body` and `sections` on an Inbox item** (a source, or a report): see "Inbox bodies" below. A capture's or an Ask row's page body is the user's: render never gives one a body.
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  **`PROJECT_NOT_IN_NOTION`** in `errors`: a project note with no Notion page (written before 0.2.2, or by hand). Never create the page through the API: it would miss the template. Report it, and ask the user to create the project with **New project** in Notion under the same name and put the note's id in its **Brain ID**, so the next sync links the two.
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- - **`body`** on a `create`: the row's page content, written as blocks after the row is created. For a source it is the digest: a line saying what the input is, the summary and the key points. For a report it is the report's six sections; a refreshed report comes back as an `update` with a `body` (decision 0045): replace the row's page content with it, then send its properties (Refresh cleared).
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- - **`sections` `{ "Full text": … }`:** a toggle heading **"Full text"** after the body, holding the text. Create the toggle when the row has none; when it has one, replace its children. Keep the text's headings as headings (one per slide of a deck), Markdown tables as Notion tables, and an email or chat thread as one block per message. Split long text into as many blocks as the API needs (a block holds at most 2000 characters of text, and one append at most 100 blocks), in order, never cutting a word.
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+ - **`body`** on a `create`: the row's page content, written as blocks after the row is created. For a source it is the digest: a line saying what the input is, the summary and the key points. For a report it is the report's six sections; a refreshed report comes back as an `update` with a `body` (decision 0045): replace the row's page content with it, then send its properties (Refresh asked cleared).
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+ - give every source except a `capture` or an attachment a **`digest`** (decision 0043), of the whole input (the Inbox row describes the document): the key points by section, as Markdown bullets under the input's own headings, and the figures and dates exactly as stated. No links, no conclusions of your own. It becomes the body of the source's Inbox row, written once;
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+ - *(Documents)* **the Documents** the input is kept as, in the same batch ([extraction.md](extraction.md), "Documents"). "Full text for the Acme brief" in chat means a `whole` Document now: Full text is retired (decision 0049). With Documents off, say the module is off and offer "turn on documents";
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+ 1. **Pages:** `sync render --changed`, write, `sync record`: the new notes and Documents, the proposals and the **source itself**, rendered as its Inbox row (a capture's row is updated: Kind only if empty, Summary, what it produced, Brain Status Done; any other source gets a new row, with its digest as the body: [notion.md](notion.md), "Inbox bodies"). An attachment has no row: its notes appear on the parent's.
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+ 2. *(Tasks)* **Tasks,** now that the Inbox row exists for their backlink: `brain sync tasks --source <source id>`, create each item once, `sync record` the page ids. An item still pending (a project not in Notion) isn't created; list it in the report. Commit `publish: <title>`. If a write fails, the next render produces it again; a capture whose row wasn't updated stays Ready and is skipped as a duplicate next time.
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  - **the page has no toggle headings at all** (created without the template): append a "Brief" and a "Decision log" toggle heading, in that order, at the end of the page, then fill them;
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  - **How to write a section:** through the **block API only**, never the Markdown page update, which flattens toggles (decision 0043): the brain-ingest skill's references/notion.md, "Writing a section through the MCP".
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- - **Meeting and Inbox relations:** `"mode": "add"` adds pages and keeps the existing ones. `"mode": "if_empty"` writes only to an empty property. Never write a meeting's Name, Date or body (0007).
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+ - **`"mode"` on a property:** `"add"` adds pages and keeps the existing ones. `"if_empty"` writes only to an empty property: read the property first, and leave it as it is when it holds anything. It is on Meeting and Inbox relations, and on an Inbox row's **Kind**, so a Kind the user chose stands (decision 0048). Never write a meeting's Name, Date or body (0007).
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- - **Never write a Notion-owned property** (status, priority, dates, progress, archived, email, website, relationship, type, Your call, What to fix, Keep, an Inbox row's Brain Status New, Ready or Skipped). `sync render` never emits them, so don't add them. Its exceptions are its own: a question's Status = Open once while Notion has none, and Answered once after an approved answer, an Inbox row's Full text box cleared, and a Report row's Refresh box and What to fix cleared once the brain has acted on them (decisions 0041, 0043, 0045).
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+ - **Never write a Notion-owned property** (status, priority, dates, progress, archived, email, website, relationship, type, Your call, What to fix, Only keep, Document asked, Promote asked, an Inbox row's Brain Status New or Ready). `sync render` never emits them, so don't add them. Its exceptions are its own: a question's Status = Open once while Notion has none, and Answered once after an approved answer, and a Report row's Refresh asked box and What to fix cleared once the brain has acted on them (decisions 0041, 0045, 0048). The skills' exceptions: brain-catch-up clears Document asked and Promote asked (and sets the Inbox row to Done) once it has acted on the request, and sets a skipped Inbox row to Done with its Summary (decision 0048).
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  - **Never delete a Notion page or a brain note during a sync.** The one removal is a `trash` item: a decided Review row moved to Notion's trash, which the user can restore for 30 days (0045). Never delete a page permanently.
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+ - `database`: the `brain.json` key: `areas`, `goals`, `key_results`, `projects`, `people`, `orgs`, `decisions`, `questions`, `concepts`, `documents`, `review` or `inbox` (`references` on a brain not yet upgraded is read as `documents`). Send only the databases of modules that are on (brain-sync step 2). Meetings are never a snapshot database.
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+ { "database": "review", "page_id": "1e2f3a4b-5c6d-4e7f-8a9b-0c1d2e3f4a5b", "last_edited": "2026-12-05T08:15:00Z",
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+ "properties": { "Brain ID": "prp-1q5w8e3r", "State": "Pending", "Your call": "Approve", "What to fix": null } }
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+ ```
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+ A Review row: `Your call` is the select's label (`Approve`, `Reject`, `Fix`) or `null`; `What to fix` is its text or `null`; `State` is sent as Notion shows it (`Pending`, `Applied`, `Closed`). [Before migration 0009: `Decision` and `Note`.] Send every Review row that has a Brain ID, decided or not.
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+ ```json
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+ { "database": "inbox", "page_id": "c3000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001", "last_edited": "2026-12-05T08:20:00Z",
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+ "properties": { "Brain ID": "src-4m9q2x7c", "Document asked": true, "Only keep": null } }
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+ ```
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+ *(Documents)* An Inbox row whose Document asked box is ticked and that has a Brain ID. `Only keep` is its text or `null`. It becomes a `document_requests` item `{ "page_id", "source", "files", "only_keep", "existing"? }`.
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+ "properties": { "Brain ID": "vw-4c7n2k9p", "Refresh asked": true, "What to fix": "Lucía left Acme in June" } }
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+ ```
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+ *(Reports)* A Report row with Refresh asked ticked or What to fix set. [Before migration 0010: `Refresh`.] It becomes `refresh_requests` `{ "page_id", "report" }` and `report_fixes` `{ "page_id", "report", "text" }`.
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+ ```json
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+ { "database": "decisions", "page_id": "5f6a7b8c-9d0e-4f1a-8b2c-3d4e5f6a7b8c", "last_edited": "2026-12-05T08:30:00Z",
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+ "properties": { "Name": "Use Supabase for auth", "Summary": "…", "Lifecycle": "Draft", "Brain ID": "dec-7k2m9q4x", "Promote asked": true } }
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+ *(Documents)* A decision or concept row also carries `Promote asked` (its other properties as usual). True becomes a `promote_requests` item `{ "page_id", "note", "existing"? }`.
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+ import { BrainError } from "../lib/errors.js";
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+ import { atomicWriteFile } from "../lib/fs-safe.js";
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+ import { appendLog } from "../lib/log.js";
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+ import { isModuleName, missingFor, MODULE_DATABASES, MODULE_DEFAULTS, MODULES, modulesOf, withModules } from "../lib/modules.js";
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+ import { describeErrors, loadSchemas } from "../lib/schemas.js";
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+ export const modulesListCommand = {
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+ name: "modules",
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+ usage: "brain modules [--json]",
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+ summary: "List the optional modules, whether each is on, and the Notion pieces it still lacks.",
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+ options: {},
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+ async run({ brain }) {
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+ const human = modules.map((module) => `${module.on ? "on " : "off"} ${module.name}${module.on && module.missing.length > 0 ? ` (missing: ${module.missing.join(", ")})` : ""}\n`).join("");
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+ export const modulesOnCommand = switchCommand(true);
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+ function switchCommand(value) {
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17
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28
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29
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30
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31
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32
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33
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34
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35
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36
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37
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38
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39
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40
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41
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42
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43
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44
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45
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46
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47
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48
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49
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50
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52
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53
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54
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55
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13
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57
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