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/startwork daily habit

Start each session in the right company, choose the work, and use Plan Mode, review, and state capture as the daily operating loop.

01Begin every work session from the synced company context.
02Let HQ choose the relevant project, worker, policy, and memory before AI acts.
$ /startwork
Fig 09.0 · The daily entry
The concept

Daily entry

/startwork is the front door for scoped, context-aware work.

DAILY SESSION LIFECYCLEEACH DAY · EACH SWITCH01SYNC FIRSTPULL LATEST STATE02ENTER/startworkINTO COMPANY CONTEXT03WORKSCOPED IN CONTEXT04END CLEANLYCHECKPOINT · HANDOFFNEXT DAY · RE-ENTER CONTEXT
Fig 09.1 · Sync first
Step 01Refresh

Sync first

Sync is the habit that makes local state current before a session begins.

Run sync at the start of a session when you have been away, changed machines, or before important shared work.

HQ reports no conflicts or asks you to resolve them before work begins.
/hq-sync
Step 02Front door

Start in Plan Mode

/startwork resolves company, project, repo, worker, and recent state into a usable session entry point. Plan Mode gives the model room to inspect reality before acting.

Run /startwork, choose the company project, repo, or worker, and use Plan Mode for meaningful work before switching into execution.

You can start work without pasting company background or policy context by hand.
/startwork
Fig 09.2 · Start in Plan Mode
Fig 09.3 · End cleanly
Step 03Save point

End cleanly

Daily work should leave behind enough state for the next session to continue, because long sessions eventually degrade.

Use checkpoint for a pause, handoff when a fresh session should continue, and learn when a correction should persist.

The next session can resume without reconstructing what happened.
/checkpoint/handoff/startwork/learn
Commands

Keep the chapter executable.

Daily entry
$ /startwork

Loads the right company, project, worker, and knowledge context for the session.

Durable pause
$ /checkpoint

Captures the current state when you are pausing but not fully handing off.

Full handoff
$ /handoff

Prepares a new session to continue work with explicit state and next steps.

References

What to keep in mind.

Daily rhythm

Sync, startwork, choose scoped work, verify, capture state.

Success signal

You can start a real task without manually rebuilding context.

Next
Next move

Once daily sessions feel natural, learn how workers and skills turn repeated work into a reusable system.

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