Check stored knowledge before answering substantive questions about a person, company, project, or other named subject. The skill retrieves the relevant page when needed and follows related links only when relationship details matter to the response.
When/what to retrieve — open the brain page for a salient entity before answering from memory.
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A person doesn't bulk-load their whole address book into working memory. They retrieve on demand, when an entity becomes salient, use it, and drop it. Encode that reflex. The brain probably has the data — if a name is salient and you haven't opened its page, open it before you answer.
Retrieve when ANY of these holds AND the page isn't already loaded in context:
Skip trivial passing mentions, logistics pings, and anything already loaded. Judgment first — retrieve when it changes the quality of the reply, not reflexively.
Escalate only as far as the task needs:
get_page <slug> (MCP) — read the page before relying on specifics.graph / backlinks for the slug.Resolve only the name(s) the current task needs, use them, drop them. No bulk-loading the inner circle.
If you've discussed a named person for more than a message without opening their page, open it now. The write side captures everything; the read side only helps if you actually look.
See also: skills/query/SKILL.md (search the brain), skills/brain-ops/SKILL.md.
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