Glossary

The A–Z quick lookup — every term, one line, linking to its page. Generated from the term pages, so it never drifts.

• Captain's Log — The append-only journal that ties everything together — the cross-goal spine.
• Comprehension — The standing briefing for a fresh agent plus reference and standard docs — the "get un-lost" pillar.
• Context Reset Doc — The off-git, personally-scoped mirror of CLAUDE.md — it primes a fresh agent to behave like the last one and keeps personal preferences out of shared project config.
• dotCoach — The practice coach — a loose pseudoskill that teaches the emergent practices by doing, dropping a couple of starter goals after your first review.
• dotHumanize — The one pseudoskill you actually run — it sets up a .human/ on any folder (new or existing) and refreshes it on re-runs, stating only what it can prove.
• Evergreen — Long-lived how-to guides (runbooks) that outlive any single goal.
• Goals — Dated, self-contained work folders — each a portable WIP packet you could hand to another human mid-stream.
• Pseudo Skills — A loosely-bound, evolving how-to that does the job of a Claude Skill without the rigid binding.
• Reports — Time-stamped operational records (incidents, alarms) — create-when-needed, never fabricated to fill the pillar.
• Resume Notes — A per-goal handoff (RESUME.md) that lets the next session pick up an in-flight goal where the last one stopped — days later, or in someone else's hands.
• Sidequests — Related tasks that surface mid-goal — tracked and folded in without derailing the goal or spinning up a new one.
• spec → plan → tasks — The workflow for non-trivial work inside a dated Goals folder, checked against the constitution.
• SpecKit — The convention the dotHuman constitution follows (.specify/memory/constitution.md).
• The Lifecycle — The loop you run on every goal — Work a Goal → Review → Carry forward. Each pass more reliable than the last.
• The Two Layers — The protocol splits into two stacked layers: the in-git Constitution and the off-git .human/ layer.
• What's in a Name? — Two easy-to-mix-up names — .human the method vs dotHuman the brand (and .human/, the workspace it lives in).
• WIP Packet — A self-contained, portable unit of work-in-progress — i.e. a Goals folder you can hand off.