Pathlight·Playbook

Memory · Senses · Habits · Learning

The Pathlight Playbook

Install a Personal Cortex.

The Owner-layer install for Cortex — Pathlight's AI Operating System. Written for a single operator, in four parts that mirror how the brain works.

Your business, on autopilot. Owner. Team. OS. Memory. Senses. Habits. Learning.

00 · Setup

Before you install

Context and toolchain. Read the first one. Make sure the second is in place.

00 · 1
What Cortex is, and what becomes possible
The four parts, the three layers, the capabilities. Read once. Reference often.

Read
00 · 2
Prerequisites
Claude Code, an MD vault, `~/hub` structure, the base toolchain.

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01 · Memory — Temporal cortex

What the business knows

Voice, ICP, SOPs, decisions, prior work. Memory is the foundation. Install this first.

01 · 1
Install the Codex
Voice, ICP, decisions, and SOPs as markdown files. The 7-day install sequence.

Read
01 · 2
Install the Wiki
A Karpathy-style LLM wiki: raw notes → wiki entries → index.

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01 · 3
Install the Strategy Vault
The tiered vault with a confirm gate. Strategic decisions, not running notes.

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02 · Senses — Sensory + motor cortex

How it perceives and acts

Surfaces, connectors, the interface you touch. The system reaches further than you can.

02 · 1
Claude Code as your surface
Set up Claude Code as the primary interface to the Cortex.

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02 · 2
Connectors
Gmail, Slack, Notion, n8n, MCP. What to wire and in what order.

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02 · 3
The day-to-day interface
How you actually touch the system. Sessions, prompts, the loop.

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03 · Habits — Basal ganglia

What runs without thinking

Skills, workflows, agents. The work that used to take you a morning now takes a button press.

03 · 1
Skills and commands
The skills library you install, ordered by leverage.

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03 · 2
Workflow templates
n8n and agent templates that ship with the Playbook.

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03 · 3
The Meeting Cortex
Granola → classified note → routed knowledge. Meetings become structure.

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04 · Learning — Neuroplasticity

How it gets better

Rituals, lints, drift detection. Without this layer, the Cortex stays the same forever.

04 · 1
Rituals
Weekly review, session-check, the rhythm that compounds.

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04 · 2
The changelog
Append-only history, decision logs, never overwrite.

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04 · 3
Evals and drift
How the OS audits itself. Catch drift early or pay for it later.

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99 · Bridge

Where this goes next

From a Personal Cortex (Owner layer) to a Team and OS layer Cortex via the Cortex Diagnostic.

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From Personal to SMB
How the Playbook becomes the prescription source for a Cortex Diagnostic.

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