The second-brain starter kit
github.com/NaluKicks-808/second-brain-kit
This is the machinery of my own second brain with my life taken out of it. You point Claude Code at a folder, it keeps a wiki about you in there, and the gates in this kit stop it when it gets sloppy.
- A constitution file the model reads before it does anything else.
- Honesty gates that block a commit on a broken link or a one-way one.
- Search-first retrieval, so a question costs a search instead of the whole index.
- A commit script that lets several Claude sessions share one folder without stepping on each other.
- A reminders ledger, which is the only list of what you still have to do.
- A postmortem file, for the failures you want the system to stop repeating.
Why I built it
I kept telling Claude the same rules and it kept forgetting them by the next session. So the rules went into a file it reads first, and the ones that actually mattered got a gate behind them, because a rule with nothing enforcing it is the first thing to go on a busy night. This is that folder, with my own pages removed.
Start here
- Download the repository as a ZIP, or clone it if you use git.
- Copy the folder onto your computer, wherever you want your notes to live.
- Open that folder in Claude Code and tell it to read the constitution file.
- Ask it to write your first page, then run the gate script before you save anything.
What it does not do
It does not come with any content. You start with an empty wiki, and the first few weeks are you feeding it before it is worth asking anything.