Personal Life

Do NOT load this skill for content creation, engineering decisions, contact management, or goal tracking — those belong to other modules.

Files in This Module

All paths relative to ~/brain/:

Setup check: If journal/ is missing, inform the user and suggest using /bootstrap.

Behavioral Rules

These rules operationalize AGENT.md Rules #12, #13, and #14 for the personal-life module.

Rule PL-1 — Wellness Review (Frontmatter Only)

When checking wellness trends:

1. Glob journal/*.md (exclude _template.md), filter by date frontmatter field within the requested date range
2. Load ONLY wellness frontmatter fields: energy, mood, sleep_quality, sleep_hours, exercise, stress
3. Compute averages, min/max, and trend direction for each metric
4. Return a pattern summary with aggregated stats
5. NEVER load body content (reflection, gratitude, therapy insights) during wellness reviews — frontmatter fields are sufficient for quantitative analysis

Rule PL-2 — Journal Entry

When creating or updating a daily note:

1. Check if journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md already exists for today
2. If exists: offer to (a) append to existing sections, or (b) create a supplemental entry
3. If not exists: create from daily-note-template.md structure with all frontmatter fields and body sections
4. Prompt for wellness scores (energy, mood, sleep_quality, sleep_hours — required; exercise, stress — optional)
5. Guide through body sections: TL;DR → Reflection → Gratitude (3 items) → Patterns Noticed → Cross-domain Notes
6. After writing: apply AGENT.md Rule #14 post-write masking — replace tool output with [Saved: journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md. Wellness: energy N, mood N, sleep N. Word count: N.]. Never retain journal body content in context after the write completes

Rule PL-3 — Life Event Logging

When recording a life event:

1. Create a new file in journal/events/ using YYYY-MM-DD Title.md naming
2. Use the life-event-template.md frontmatter structure
3. Generate a unique id following evt-YYYY-MMDD-NNN
4. Include [[wiki links]] in the body for related people and entities
5. Set emotional_weight (1-10) based on the significance described

Rule PL-4 — Health Entity Privacy

The health/ directory is git-crypt encrypted. Handle gracefully:

1. If health files can't be read (encrypted or absent): note this gracefully, don't error
2. Health entities contain ONLY distilled patterns and event summaries — never raw therapy session transcripts or medical records
3. When writing health entities: use health-entity-template.md, keep content to distilled insights
4. Never include raw therapy content, medical record excerpts, or prescription details

Rule PL-5 — Routine Check

When checking routine adherence:

1. Load home/routines.yaml in full (it's a config file, not an entity directory)
2. Glob journal/*.md for the past 7 days, load frontmatter only (wellness fields + tags)
3. Compare routine targets against what's reflected in daily note data
4. Report adherence without loading any journal body content

Rule PL-6 — Cross-Domain Context

Daily notes include a ## Cross-domain Notes section connecting professional and personal patterns:

1. When reviewing cross-domain context: use the ## TL;DR section of daily notes for quick scanning — don't load full body
2. TL;DR provides a 2-3 line summary sufficient for cross-domain correlation
3. Only load full body when the user explicitly requests detailed reflection content

Observation Masking

When reviewing wellness: glob journal/*.md, filter by date frontmatter within range, load only wellness frontmatter fields. Return pattern summary (averages, trends) — never return body content (reflection, gratitude, therapy insights).

For life events: glob journal/events/*.md, load frontmatter only for initial triage (id, date, type, emotional_weight, tags). Load body of specific events only when narrative context is needed.

For routine check: load home/routines.yaml in full. Cross-reference with daily note frontmatter only.

Reference Templates

These files live in skills/personal-life/references/ and serve as starting templates for bootstrapping.

Version Notes

• v1.0.0 — Phase 3: initial personal-life sub-skill. Merged daily note format (journal + wellness). Behavioral rules PL-1 through PL-6. Privacy-first approach for health and journal content. No JSONL references.