Dream — Vault Self-Consolidation

Dreaming is the vault's sleep cycle: without user input, review recent activity, surface patterns, and prepare small consolidation proposals. The vault wakes up smarter; the user only approves.

Inputs (deterministic, collect all first)

deeporbit --vault . status                    # lifecycle state
deeporbit --vault . suggest                   # open issues
deeporbit --vault . index ensure              # fresh retrieval before searching
deeporbit --vault . profile show              # what matters to the user
find 00_Inbox 10_Diary 15_Writings 20_Projects 30_Research 60_Notes -name '*.md' -mtime -7

Consolidation passes

Work through these in order; skip any that finds nothing.

1. Pattern promotion (Zettelkasten layer). Cluster the recent notes by

theme. When 2+ notes independently circle the same concept, draft one atomic Wiki note (40_Wiki/<Concept>.md, author: ai, linked from both sources). Drafts are proposals — present them before writing.

1. Hidden connections. For each recent note, run

deeporbit --vault . rag "<its core claim>" and list the top existing notes it should link to but doesn't. Propose the exact wikilinks.

1. Lifecycle nudges. Turn suggest output into decisions: which done

items to archive, which dormant active items to pause, which stale paused item to revive. Reference real paths.

1. Profile learning. If recent activity reveals durable traits (recurring

topics, preferred formats, working hours), record them: deeporbit --vault . profile observe "<text>" --source agent. This step writes immediately — it is append-only and source-tagged.

1. Recipe gaps. If the user repeatedly ran the same ad-hoc sequence this

week, propose capturing it as 99_System/Recipes/<Name>.md.

Dream report

Write 10_Diary/dreams/YYYY-MM-DD.md with author: ai:

---
type: dream
author: ai
created: YYYY-MM-DD
---
# Dream YYYY-MM-DD

## Promotions proposed   (concept → sources)
## Connections proposed  (note → wikilinks)
## Lifecycle decisions   (path → archive/pause/resume)
## Profile observations  (recorded)
## Recipe proposals

Present the report and ask which proposals to apply. Human approval is the wake-up gate: except for profile observations and the report itself, NOTHING is written, moved, or linked without confirmation.

Scheduling

Recommend once (if no cron job exists):

deeporbit --vault . cron add dream "Run the do.dream consolidation workflow" --every daily

The registry is device-local; the user wires it to their agent runtime's scheduler or system cron (deeporbit cron run-due reports due jobs).

Rules

• Read deeporbit.json for the interaction language; folder paths stay in English.
• Set author: ai on the dream report and any proposed note; author: mixed when substantially rewriting a human note.
• Dreaming is consolidation, not creation: never invent facts; every proposal must cite the vault paths it derives from.
• Keep the report short — it is a review artifact, not a second recap. /do:recap covers what happened; dreaming covers what it means.