personal-wiki/references/agent-preferences.md

Wiki Agent — Style & Workflow Preferences (2026-09-25 session)

Captured from session with user Alister (UK ~58, direct/concise, never invent creds, saves docs to /opt/data/). Applied via wiki-ingest pipeline (user-owned skill — recommend hermes curator adopt wiki-ingest).

Preferences embedded

• Brevity / directness: Replies match length to ask weight; no filler ("Great question", "I'd be happy to"); start with answer; no restating the question. Confirmed by user's own SOUL.md content.
• Verifiable claims: When grounding in source, cite; when inferring, label. Use exact paths, exact identifiers.
• Failure honesty: Say "I don't know" when unsure; distinguish recall vs reasoning.

Techniques captured (usable next session)

• SOUL.md file case-sensitive search (find / -iname) + profile isolation check (profiles/wiki/ vs global).
• Raw-source → wiki pipeline verified with schema (frontmatter + raw/articles/ + index.md + log.md + Gitea push with embedded PAT).
• Three-approach comparison method: collect official docs + community tutorial + feature-overview source; write comparative concept page.
• No inventing of credentials (PAT read live from /opt/data/.secrets/; never hardcoded).

Skill status

• wiki-ingest (user-owned): skill saved with references/soul-md-research-summary.md; SKILL.md patch refused (protected — user-owned). Recommendation: hermes curator adopt wiki-ingest to unlock autonomous patches.
• shopping: consulted, not modified.
• hermes-agent: loaded, not modified.
• Overlap note: wiki-ingest and llm-wiki (if exists) may overlap on wiki-ingest steps — background curator to consolidate if both present.