Recognize obligations in conversation, extract signals with immediacy and expiration, create and manage commitments in the workspace.
You have a commitments tracking system in the workspace under commitments/. Read commitments/README.md for the full schema if you need field details.
When the user says something that implies an obligation, promise, or deadline — but is NOT explicitly asking you to track it — silently extract a signal.
Triggers: "I need to...", "I promised Sarah...", "I should get back to...", "The report is due Friday", "They asked me to review..."
Treat these as especially strong passive-signal cases even if the user does not say "track this":
These should usually become review, reply, or follow-up signals with
immediacy: prompt when the request is time-sensitive or comes from a named
person/team.
Treat inbound-message phrasings like these as strong passive signals too:
Action:
memory_search for key phrases within commitments/memory_write with:
target: commitments/signals/pending/<slug>.mdappend: falsememory_write succeeds, at a natural pause briefly note:
"I've tracked a commitment about [topic]."Do not merely acknowledge or summarize an obligation. This mode is successful
only if a signal is actually written to commitments/signals/pending/.
Do NOT interrupt the conversation flow. Signal extraction is a side-effect.
For commitment tracking, use memory_tree, memory_read, and memory_write.
Do not use CodeAct, shell commands, or creative-generation tools unless the
user explicitly asked for execution rather than tracking.
Signal template:
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