Phase 2 Filing + Journaling

Level 3 · Course 19

Most agents can make files. Few can leave a workspace better than they found it. The difference is filing. Without a layout, every output lands wherever the agent happened to be standing. Screenshots at the root. Scripts in the wrong folder. Project notes mixed with permanent rules. A week later, the next session has to excavate its own history before it can work.

This course upgrades your filing system from basic memory to operational discipline. Your agent builds a map for where things live, a journal for what changed, and an extraction habit for what should become permanent. The rule is simple: file at creation. If a file has no home, ask before making it. If a lesson came from the work, route it before the session forgets.

But filing is only half of it. The journals your agent keeps — school.md, SESSION-NARRATIVE.md, the oversight log, drift entries, project journals — are not self-healing. They accumulate. They fill with data points. The agent's job is to log every event cleanly and honestly. Your job is to review periodically — when entries pile up, when a pattern repeats, when something feels off. You read the journals, you find the through-lines, you make the changes. The journals are a handoff from the agent to you. Your agent does not synthesize the story. You do.