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type: note
alexandria_config: true
author: alexandria
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# Working Style

**Procedural memory — how to work with {{ owner.short_name or owner.name or OWNER_PLACEHOLDER }}.** Durable, reusable rules an agent applies. [[AGENTS]] points here; consult it at the start of substantive work and apply what's here *without announcing the lookup*. **This is Config: edit it freely; Alexandria updates never touch it.**

**What belongs here** (all must hold): **durable** (still true next month), **reusable** (matters in a future chat), **procedural** (a rule about behavior/process — not a fact, which goes to Knowledge / People / an area), and **observed** (not guessed). Good candidates: output preferences, decision/communication style, standing constraints, tool/workflow choices, and corrections the owner makes to agent behavior.

**How it's written.** One rule per line under the headings below:
`- [YYYY-MM-DD] (confidence: high|med) Rule, phrased as durable guidance. — src: chat`
**Supersede, don't delete:** strike a contradicted rule — `~~old text~~ (superseded YYYY-MM-DD)` — and add the new one, so the trail stays.

**Governance.** Record rules here **autonomously** under the criteria above, and **state in-chat what you recorded** ("Noted to Working Style: …"). Never written silently; never dumped back unprompted. The owner can correct or strike any entry.

> **New vault?** Say **"settings"** to seed these three sections from a short interview — then they keep sharpening from the daily debrief.

## Preferences
*(output and process preferences — what the owner likes/dislikes in deliverables)*

## Working & decision style
*(how the owner operates, decides, and communicates)*

## Standing constraints
*(hard rules and guardrails — egress, sequencing, approval gates, etc.)*
