> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://aileadersvietnam.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# 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

```bash theme={null}
# 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)
```

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="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.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Personal Applications">
    Identifies habits, mindsets, and practices the book suggests adopting, cross-referenced against your `{vault}/context/goals.md`.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="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.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## 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.

<Note>
  `/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.
</Note>

## 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
```

<Tip>
  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.
</Tip>