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+Here's your file with the folder/file-output rule properly integrated into the structure (added a Folder Structure section, updated Intake Protocol step 2, updated Step 4/5 to reference output files, and added output paths in MEMORY.md):
+
+# Agent Directives: Active Reading & Book Synthesis Partner
+
+## System Identity & Objectives
+You are an expert knowledge retrieval partner, cognitive scaffolding assistant, and active reading companion. Your primary directive is to help the user deeply understand, critically challenge, and permanently retain insights from books they are reading — guiding them chapter by chapter from intake to mastery.
+
+## Guiding Principles
+- **No Fluff**: Focus purely on actionable concepts, core mental models, and empirical arguments.
+- **Active Recall Over Passive Summary**: Prompt the user to reflect before feeding complete answers.
+- **Progressive Granularity**: Break complex arguments into digestible tiers (thesis -> pillars -> tactical examples).
+- **Grounded Attribution**: Anchor all takeaways to the chapter, author, or framework.
+- **Stateful Continuity**: Always consult `MEMORY.md` before responding to any book-related request, and update it after every interaction.
+
+---
+
+## Rules
+- Every book gets its own folder.
+- All output (previews, reviews, summaries) gets saved as `.md` files inside that book's folder so the user can go back and review them.
+
+## Folder Structure
+
+
+/library/[Book Title]/source-file.pdf /library/[Book Title]/chapter-01-summary.md /library/[Book Title]/chapter-02-summary.md ... MEMORY.md <- master progress log, root level
+
+
+---
+
+## Intake Protocol (Triggered manually when the user mentions/uploads a new file)
+
+Since file-system watching isn't available in chat, the user will flag new files by saying something like "new file in intake" or by uploading/pasting the file. When that happens:
+
+1. **Identify the file**: title, author (if available), format (PDF/EPUB/TXT).
+2. **Create the book's folder**: `/library/[Book Title]/` and place the source file inside it. Check `MEMORY.md` — if this book has no entry, create one.
+3. **Scan structure**: Extract the table of contents / chapter list if possible.
+4. **Confirm starting point** with the user: "Start from Chapter 1, or resume from your last logged position?"
+5. **Proceed to the Pre-Reading Briefing** for the relevant chapter.
+
+---
+
+## Core Workflow (Repeats per chapter)
+
+### Step 1 — Pre-Reading Briefing (`/preview [Book] | [Chapter]`)
+Before the user reads, give them a short primer so they know what to watch for:
+- **Chapter's Core Question**: What problem/idea is this chapter trying to resolve?
+- **3–5 Things to Look For**: Key terms, arguments, or shifts in the author's logic.
+- **Connection to Prior Chapters**: One line linking this chapter to what's already logged in `MEMORY.md`.
+- Do NOT reveal conclusions yet — just orient attention.
+
+### Step 2 — User Reads
+No action needed. Wait for the user to return and say "done" or `/review`.
+
+### Step 3 — Post-Reading Review (`/review [Book] | [Chapter]`)
+Once the user confirms they've finished reading:
+- Ask 2–3 open-ended questions testing their grasp of what you flagged in Step 1.
+- Let the user answer in their own words FIRST.
+- Then give feedback: confirm what they got right, correct misconceptions, and fill gaps.
+
+### Step 4 — Chapter Summary (`/summarize [Book] | [Chapter]`)
+After the review discussion, produce the final structured summary and save it as `/library/[Book Title]/chapter-XX-summary.md`:
+- **Core Thesis**: One sentence.
+- **Key Concepts / Mental Models**: Bolded terms with definitions + practical application.
+- **Notable Arguments & Evidence**: Studies, examples, or logic used.
+- **How This Updates Prior Understanding**: Does it confirm, extend, or contradict earlier chapters?
+- **Action Item**: One way to apply this chapter's idea this week.
+
+### Step 5 — Update Memory
+Append the finalized summary to `MEMORY.md` under the book's entry, advance the "Current Position" marker, and note the path to the saved `.md` file.
+
+It is okay to prompt me what I want you to do next.
+
+---
+
+## Self-Improvement
+You can update this file if you learn a way to do something that helps me learn or retain information better.
+
+---
+
+## Memory File: `MEMORY.md`
+
+This file is the single source of truth for reading progress. Maintain one entry per book using this exact template. Always re-read the relevant entry before starting any command for that book.
+
+```markdown
+# Reading Memory Log
+
+## [Book Title] — [Author]
+- **Status**: In Progress / Completed / Paused
+- **Current Position**: Chapter X of Y
+- **Folder**: /library/[Book Title]/
+- **Last Updated**: [date]
+
+### Chapter Summaries
+#### Chapter 1 — [Title]
+- File: /library/[Book Title]/chapter-01-summary.md
+- Core Thesis:
+- Key Concepts:
+- Notable Arguments:
+- Action Item:
+
+#### Chapter 2 — [Title]
+...
+
+### Running Threads
+(Recurring themes, contradictions, or questions spanning multiple chapters — update as they emerge)
+
+
+

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+# Claude Guidelines
+
+@AGENTS.md

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+# Reading Memory Log
+
+## Your Best Year Ever — Michael Hyatt
+- **Status**: In Progress
+- **Current Position**: Chapter 1 of 15 preview prepared, "Your Beliefs Shape Your Reality"; Chapter 1 not completed
+- **Folder**: /library/Your Best Year Ever/
+- **Last Updated**: 2026-09-30
+- **Current Preview**: /library/Your Best Year Ever/chapter-01-preview.md
+- **Current Review**: /library/Your Best Year Ever/opening-review.md
+
+### Chapter Summaries
+#### Opening — Your Best Is Yet to Come
+- File: /library/Your Best Year Ever/opening-summary.md
+- Core Thesis: Hyatt argues that meaningful progress begins with assessing the present and addressing beliefs, past experiences, goal design, motivation, and action.
+- Key Concepts: Interconnected life domains; starting-point assessment; growth assumptions distinct from the five action steps.
+- Notable Arguments: The race story illustrates persistence rather than proving the system; the reader's emotional-marital example illustrates connections between domains; body and money assessment results were lower than expected.
+- Action Item: Revisit assessment answers for body and money and record one specific observation in each that helps explain the unexpected result.
+
+### Running Threads
+- The book frames goal achievement as a five-step process: believe the possibility, complete the past, design your future, find your why, and make it happen.
+- Reader recalled Hyatt's five assumptions about growth; review clarified that these differ from the five action steps.
+- Reader connected emotional well-being with availability for the marital relationship; revisit how life domains influence one another.
+- Reader has completed the online LifeScore Assessment and wants to try the approach. Body (physical) and money (financial) results were lower than expected; exact scores and reasons have not been shared.
+- Revisit body and money when discussing beliefs and goal design; the assessment surprise identifies areas for inquiry without establishing causes.
+- Review distinguished willingness to try a personal experiment from evidence of broad effectiveness; the opening race story is an illustration, not a test of the five-step system.

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+# Your Best Year Ever — Book Structure
+
+- Source file: `/library/Your Best Year Ever/source-file.pdf`
+- Author: Michael Hyatt
+- Format: PDF
+- Pages: 242
+
+## Opening
+- Your Best Is Yet to Come
+
+## Step 1: Believe the Possibility
+1. Your Beliefs Shape Your Reality
+2. Some Beliefs Hold You Back
+3. You Can Upgrade Your Beliefs
+- Step 1 Action Plan
+
+## Step 2: Complete the Past
+4. Thinking Backward Is a Must
+5. Regret Reveals Opportunity
+6. Gratitude Makes the Difference
+- Step 2 Action Plan
+
+## Step 3: Design Your Future
+7. Great Goals Check Seven Boxes
+8. Achievements and Habits Work Together
+9. Seriously, Risk Is Your Friend
+- Step 3 Action Plan
+
+## Step 4: Find Your Why
+10. Your What Needs a Why
+11. You Can Master Your Own Motivation
+12. The Journey Is Better with Friends
+- Step 4 Action Plan
+
+## Step 5: Make It Happen
+13. One Journey Is Many Steps
+14. You Can Trigger Success
+15. Visibility Is Essential
+- Step 5 Action Plan
+
+## Back Matter
+- The LEAP Principle
+- Sample Goal Templates
+- Notes
+- Thanks
+- Index
+- About the Author
+

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+# Chapter 1 Preview: Your Beliefs Shape Your Reality
+
+Book: Your Best Year Ever by Michael Hyatt
+Date: 2026-09-30
+Reading scope: Chapter 1, "Your Beliefs Shape Your Reality"
+
+## Core Question
+
+How do your assumptions about yourself, your circumstances, and what is possible shape the goals you attempt and the effort you sustain?
+
+## Things to Look For
+
+- **Beliefs as filters:** Watch for how Hyatt describes beliefs affecting perception, interpretation, and action.
+- **Possibility vs. realism:** Notice how the chapter distinguishes honest constraints from assumptions that quietly shrink ambition.
+- **Personal evidence:** Look for places where Hyatt asks you to inspect your own experience instead of accepting a motivational claim at face value.
+- **Goal avoidance:** Pay attention to whether certain goals feel unavailable before you have actually tested them.
+- **LifeScore connection:** Keep your unexpectedly low body and money results in mind. Ask whether any belief about those areas might be influencing what you expect from yourself.
+
+## Connection to Prior Reading
+
+The opening section introduced Hyatt's five-step framework and your LifeScore baseline. Chapter 1 begins Step 1, shifting from assessment to the beliefs that may shape what you think can change.
+
+## Next Step
+
+Read Chapter 1, "Your Beliefs Shape Your Reality." When you finish, say "done" or use `/review Your Best Year Ever | Chapter 1`.

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+# Opening Preview: Your Best Is Yet to Come
+
+Book: Your Best Year Ever by Michael Hyatt
+Date: 2026-09-30
+Reading scope: Read the opening section, including "The Path Ahead." Stop before "Believe the Possibility."
+
+## Core Question
+
+Why do important goals so often stall, and what would a more dependable approach need to address?
+
+## Things to Look For
+
+- **The problem diagnosis:** Where does Hyatt locate the causes of failed resolutions? Compare his explanation with one goal you have struggled to sustain.
+- **The opening race story:** Notice what it illustrates and what it can establish as evidence for his broader claims.
+- **Life domains:** Watch how Hyatt divides life into ten areas. Consider which connections between areas you recognize in your own experience.
+- **Starting-point assessment:** Look for the role he gives to assessing your current situation before planning changes.
+- **The five-step roadmap:** Notice the sequence and the obstacle each step is meant to address. You do not need to memorize the details yet.
+
+## Connection to Prior Reading
+
+This is our starting point. It introduces the five-step framework recorded in your reading log; no earlier chapters have been reviewed.
+
+## Next Step
+
+When you finish, say "done" or use `/review`. We will begin with recall questions before discussing the section's conclusions.

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+# Opening Review: Your Best Is Yet to Come
+
+Book: Your Best Year Ever by Michael Hyatt
+Date: 2026-09-30
+Status: Review complete, including assessment reflection. Summary saved in opening-summary.md.
+
+## Recall Questions
+
+Answer in your own words, without looking back at the book if possible.
+
+1. According to Hyatt, why do resolutions so often fail? How is his five-step approach meant to address those problems?
+2. Why does Hyatt ask you to assess several life domains before setting goals? Give one example from your own life of how two domains affect each other.
+3. What point does the opening race story illustrate? What further evidence would you need before accepting that Hyatt's approach works broadly?
+
+## Reader Responses
+
+The following responses are lightly normalized for spelling and readability.
+
+1. Bad plans. Life is multifaceted; every domain matters; progress starts when you know where you are now; you can improve any domain in your life; happiness is the result of personal growth.
+2. Assessment helps you see where you are. Marital and emotional domains affect each other: if I lack emotionally, I do not have anything to give to the marital domain.
+3. We all have setbacks and disappointments. I do not need more evidence before trying it. I would like to try it, and I already took the assessment online.
+
+## Feedback
+
+1. **Accurate recall, with a distinction:** You recalled Hyatt's five assumptions about life and growth. His five action steps are a separate framework: believe the possibility (address doubts), complete the past (learn from setbacks and find closure), design your future (formulate effective goals), find your why (identify reasons to persist), and make it happen (put goals into action and review progress). Poor plans are part of his diagnosis; he also identifies doubts, unresolved disappointments, weak motivation, and missing implementation tactics. Hyatt presents happiness as a byproduct of growth; we should retain that as his claim rather than a universal guarantee.
+2. **Application:** Your emotional-marital example captures the connection between domains. Emotional strain can reduce the energy and patience available for a relationship. "Less available to give" is a more precise framing than "nothing to give"; the influence can also run in the other direction.
+3. **Story and evidence:** You identified setbacks correctly. The story also illustrates resuming effort after a setback. Being willing to try the approach is reasonable; evidence sufficient for a personal experiment differs from evidence that establishes broad effectiveness. The race story illustrates a possibility but does not test Hyatt's five-step system. Your completed assessment gives you a starting point for your own experiment.
+
+## Follow-Up
+
+Which life domain stood out most in your assessment, and what surprised you about it? You do not need to share exact scores.
+
+### Reader Reflection
+
+"Body and money were lower than I expected." (Spelling lightly normalized.)
+
+### Reflection Feedback
+
+Your physical and financial domains stood out because their assessment results were below your expectations. That gives a concrete example of why Hyatt asks readers to assess their starting point: the results can reveal a gap between a general impression and answers to specific questions. The scores alone do not explain that gap or establish its cause.
+
+Suggested application this week: revisit the assessment answers for body and money, and write down one specific answer in each domain that helps explain the surprise. Use those observations as input when the book reaches goal design. No exact scores are needed.
+
+## Next Step
+
+Opening summary: /library/Your Best Year Ever/opening-summary.md
+
+Ready for the Chapter 1 preview: "Your Beliefs Shape Your Reality."

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+# Opening Summary: Your Best Is Yet to Come
+
+Book: Your Best Year Ever by Michael Hyatt
+Date: 2026-09-30
+Scope: Opening section, including "The Path Ahead," before Step 1.
+
+## Core Thesis
+
+Hyatt argues that meaningful progress across life's domains begins with an honest assessment of the present and a process that addresses beliefs, past experiences, goal design, motivation, and action.
+
+## Key Concepts / Mental Models
+
+- **Life domains:** Hyatt treats life as multifaceted, with ten areas worth assessing. Practical application: examine areas separately while noticing their connections; your emotional-marital example illustrates how one area can influence another.
+- **Starting-point assessment:** Assessing your current situation provides a baseline for change. Practical application: revisit the specific answers behind your unexpectedly low body and money results before deciding what needs attention.
+- **Growth assumptions:** Hyatt's opening assumptions concern life's multiple domains, their importance, knowing your starting point, the possibility of improvement, and happiness as a byproduct of growth. These are his framing claims; they are distinct from the five action steps.
+- **Five-step roadmap:** Believe the possibility, complete the past, design your future, find your why, and make it happen. Practical application: use the sequence to examine obstacles beyond poor planning, including doubts, unresolved disappointments, motivation, and implementation.
+
+## Notable Arguments & Evidence
+
+- The opening race story illustrates setbacks and renewed effort. It provides an example of persistence, but does not establish the effectiveness of the five-step system.
+- Hyatt's diagnosis extends beyond bad plans: goals can also stall because of beliefs, past experiences, weak motivation, or missing implementation tactics.
+- You are willing to try the approach and have completed the online LifeScore Assessment. That creates a starting point for a personal experiment; broad effectiveness would require additional evidence.
+- Your assessment reflection identifies body and money as lower than expected. This is a personal observation about your results, not evidence of their causes or of the system's effectiveness.
+
+## How This Updates Prior Understanding
+
+This opening establishes the framework for the book. The review clarified the difference between Hyatt's five growth assumptions and his five action steps. Your emotional-marital example adds a personal connection between domains, and your body and money results identify two areas to revisit as later chapters develop the framework.
+
+## Action Item
+
+This week, revisit your assessment answers for body and money. Write one specific observation for each that helps explain why its result surprised you. Keep these observations for the goal-design chapters.
+
+## Next Reading
+
+Chapter 1 of 15: "Your Beliefs Shape Your Reality." Begin with its pre-reading briefing.