Absorb

Cross-reference book insights against your actual vault context and propose targeted updates to your strategy, goals, and thinking.

/absorb reads your ingested book notes, cross-references the insights against your existing vault context (strategy, goals, business), and proposes concrete updates. It never writes anything without your approval — unless the book has already been audited, in which case it can apply changes automatically.

Usage

# Deep dive on a single book
/absorb [book-name]

# Cross-book synthesis across your last 5–10 books
/absorb

Pre-Absorb Check

Before doing anything, /absorb checks the audit flag for the book:

Audit Flag	What Happens
true	Runs autonomously — no approval needed
manual	Shows each proposal and asks: “Approve? (all / pick numbers / skip)“
false	Blocked — “Run /audit first before absorbing.”

Single Book Output

When you run /absorb [book-name], it generates an Absorption Report with three sections:

## Absorption Report: [Book Title]

### For Your Business
| Insight | Applies to | Suggested Action |
|---------|-----------|-----------------|
| [Insight] | [[context/strategy]] | [What to do] |
| [Insight] | [[context/icp]] | [What to do] |

### For You Personally
- [How this changes your thinking or habits]

### Thinking Seeds
- **New idea**: [Idea name] — [Brief description]
  → Create in thinking/ideas/? [y/n]
- **Reinforces**: [[thinking/ideas/existing-idea]] — [How]
- **Challenges**: [[thinking/patterns/existing-pattern]] — [How]

### Vault Updates Proposed
1. Add to context/strategy.md: [what]
2. Create thinking/ideas/[new-idea].md
3. Update context/preferences.md: [new rule from book]

Approve updates? (all / pick numbers / skip)

Business Applications

Compares book insights against {vault}/context/strategy.md, {vault}/context/icp.md, and {vault}/context/brand.md. Surfaces what should change in your strategy and any implications for how you position or serve your audience.

Personal Applications

Identifies habits, mindsets, and practices the book suggests adopting, cross-referenced against your {vault}/context/goals.md.

Thinking Seeds

Finds new ideas to create, existing ideas in {vault}/thinking/ideas/ to reinforce, and patterns in {vault}/thinking/patterns/ to challenge or update.

Vault Updates

/absorb always shows you what it plans to change before touching anything. It will never create orphan notes — every proposal connects to existing vault content. Once you approve (with all, specific numbers, or skip), it applies only the updates you confirmed.

/absorb never writes to your vault without your explicit approval — unless the book’s audit flag is true, in which case you’ve already verified the knowledge and the skill applies changes automatically.

Cross-Book Synthesis

Running /absorb without an argument reads your last 5–10 book notes and produces a synthesis report:

• Common threads — themes that appear across multiple books
• Contradictions — places where authors disagree
• Strongest actionable insights — backed by multiple sources
• Suggested pattern entries for {vault}/thinking/patterns/

The synthesis report is saved to:

{vault}/thinking/agent-output/YYYY-MM-DD-absorption-synthesis.md

Run /chain to automate the full pipeline including absorb. When triggered via /chain, the audit flag is already true, so absorb applies vault updates automatically without prompting.