Is Writing

Writing Standard for IdeaSpaces

The full standard lives in the writing reference — generated from the canonical protocol skill catalog. Read it when writing or revising a Note: it covers summaries, sections as the semantic fingerprint, concreteness, progressive disclosure, and what not to do. The notes below are only the surface-specific bits.

Frontmatter this surface writes

Required on create:

• name — human-readable title
• summary — the most important field. Dense, two sentences; it's what awareness and search surfaces show.

Optional but valuable:

• tags — descriptors for search, not categories ("regulatory", "series-a")
• attached_to — bind the entity a Note is about: hostname:acme.com, person:alice, note:n_abc123. Entities you name in the prose should be entities in the index — that's how Notes connect across the Space.

Placement

Always inspect the target area first (bash with find / rg --files, then read). Understand what branches mean (their READMEs). Place content where it compounds with related knowledge; reuse existing locations before creating new ones.

This standard applies whenever is-capture proposes writing to the space.