Press

LEAF Press

Press a reference-worthy leaf into a citable digest. Pressing condenses the leaf into pressed.md — smaller in size, preserved in value, like a pressed specimen — so future work can cite it without rereading the whole leaf. A pressed digest is also the natural LEAF boundary for agent-readable knowledge: new pressed.md files start with OKF-compatible YAML frontmatter so tools can route, index, and link them as typed concepts without parsing the prose body.

Pressing is one outcome of ending a leaf. The keep / press / fall decision, and the fall and keep actions, live in ../using-leaf/references/lifecycle.md ("Ending a leaf"). Enter this skill once press is the chosen outcome.

Boundary

• Work only inside .leaf/.
• Run leaf doctor before and after pressing. If it reports a workspace issue, fix the diagnosed issue before trusting inventory output.
• Do not produce or revise the artifact itself.
• Do not clean gate prose beyond the ## Press Abstract this skill writes.
• Do not read, write, infer, or validate .wt/ files.

First Read

leaf doctor
leaf review <slug>

Resolve the source:

• Press only an existing .leaf/02-leaves/<slug>/ leaf. A sprout is not pressable: finish ⑧, move it into leaves, and run Feedback first. Fallen work is not pressable because falling means it is not being kept as reusable reference knowledge.
• If the slug exists in more than one stage, ask which lifecycle state should be resolved before pressing.

When To Press

Press only reference-worthy work: work that established reusable knowledge, a durable design decision, a pattern, a citable artifact, or a lesson future leaves should reuse. If the work is not that, it is a fall, not a press — return to ../using-leaf/references/lifecycle.md ("Ending a leaf"). Do not press just because effort was spent; press because future work should be able to cite it.

Press

Create or refresh <source>/pressed.md. Also write or replace ## Press Abstract in <source>/00-status.md.

Use this pressed.md shape:

---
type: Leaf Pressed Digest
title: <human-readable title>
description: <one-sentence summary for indexes and previews>
resource: <source path>
tags: [leaf, <short-topic-tag>]
timestamp: <ISO 8601 local timestamp>
citation_handle: leaf:{slug}
stage: leaf
---

# <human-readable title>

## Citation Summary

<One compact paragraph: what the leaf clarified, how it worked, what it
established or produced, and the main caveat.>

## Intent

<Why the work existed. Preserve user wording when it affects meaning.>

## Method

<Gates used, research path, criteria, comparisons, implementation strategy, or
review loop.>

## What Was Done

<Concrete artifacts, decisions, explored alternatives, task graph, or outputs.>

## Key Points To Reuse

- <Reusable point, decision, pattern, or constraint>

## Limits And Open Questions

- <Known limitation, unresolved question, weak evidence, or non-goal>

## Lessons

- <What should influence future work>

## Source Map

- `<source file>`: <why it mattered>

Rules:

• pressed.md is a digest, not source truth; original LEAF files remain authoritative.

• The frontmatter is for consumption and indexing. Keep type as Leaf Pressed Digest; set resource to the source LEAF path; keep citation_handle as a producer-defined field; set stage to leaf; choose a few short tags that help retrieval without inventing a broad taxonomy.

• Do not move active workflow state (current gate, next action, open review status) into pressed frontmatter. That state belongs in 00-status.md; pressed frontmatter describes stable citable knowledge.

• Keep direct quotations short and only when original wording matters.

• If the source is thin, say so instead of filling gaps.

• Write linked.md only when source files evidence a relation to another leaf or the user names one. If no links exist, skip it.

• When writing linked.md, use exportable graph rows under # Links:

  - `cites` -> `leaf:other-slug` - optional note
  

  Allowed predicates are cites, refines, supersedes, depends_on, derived_from, and related_to. Keep prose notes after the target; do not invent a broad ontology before real pressed leaves need it.

Report

Report:

• source path used;
• files written (pressed.md, ## Press Abstract);
• linked.md written or skipped;
• leaf doctor result;
• confirmation that no .wt/ or execution artifacts were created.