Init Rulebook

Init user's agent rulebook

Load the user's agent rulebook — the global rule set under ~/.agents/ (AGENTS.md plus every top-level Markdown file in rules/) — into working context. Run this skill on every invocation; do not assume the rulebook from a prior turn is still present.

Rehydrate after compaction

Context compaction drops or distills earlier file reads. After compaction (or when rulebook content looks summarized or missing):

1. Treat prior rulebook knowledge as stale. Do not rely on remembered rule text from before compaction.
2. Re-run this skill immediately — read the index and every discovered rule file again in this turn, before continuing the user's task.
3. Silent rehydration. Do not summarize, echo, or confirm the rulebook to the user unless they asked about it.
4. Then resume work with the freshly loaded user's agent rulebook applied.

If the user says rehydrate, reload rulebook, init rulebook, load user's agent rulebook, or load user-level agent rules, execute the steps below even when you believe the rulebook was loaded earlier in the session.

Steps (every invocation)

1. Read the index completely: ~/.agents/AGENTS.md (or where it is aliased or symlinked from).
2. Discover rules from disk: enumerate every top-level *.md file in ~/.agents/rules/. Do not recurse, and do not derive membership from index references or an embedded filename list.
3. Sort deterministically: order the discovered files by basename in ascending lexical order; numeric prefixes establish the intended sequence.
4. Read every discovered rule completely: treat any unreadable file or failed read as an error and report the exact path. Do not silently skip it.
5. Confirm completion: record the discovered count and successfully read count. Loading is complete only when the counts are equal.
6. Absorb silently: do not summarize, echo, or confirm the rulebook to the user.
7. Apply rulebook-side semantics: loading a rule is distinct from applying it. Honor applicability declared by the rule files and rulebook index for the remainder of the session, until the next compaction or explicit re-invocation.

Behavior

• User's agent rulebook = index + exhaustive top-level rule discovery, every time. Never skip AGENTS.md or a discovered rule file.
• No deferral. Read the complete discovered set in one pass, including rules whose activation conditions do not match the current task.
• Silent operation. No user-visible output unless explicitly asked about the rulebook.
• Compaction = reload. Any turn after compaction should treat loading the user's agent rulebook as required, not optional.