closes the day
On the record a
session leaves.
A compact between the Hand that returns and the System that worked before it: that no session shall close without a record, and no new session shall begin blind to the one before.
A session is a span of work, and work spans more than one sitting. So that what is begun is not lost between hands, and so that the next session may stand upon the last, we ordain this Amendment of the Canon.
The handoff, and the reading of it.
No session shall close without a handoff; and no session shall begin its work before it has read the last.
At the end of a session, anything begun mid-task or left in progress shall be set down in a dated handoff note in the long-term knowledge store: the work completed, the work still in progress, and the steps that come next.
The next session for the same matter shall read the most recent handoff before it does anything else, that it may take up the thread where the prior hand laid it down.
No session shall skip its handoff for that it was short, or for that nothing much happened. Such a skipping is a known failing of the System. Even a single paragraph stands; for what is written can be searched, and what is held only in the mind of a closed session is gone.
These Articles may be amended in the open, as a charter shows its revisions.
The cursor waits for the next hand.