Cold Start — Day-One Brain Bootstrapping

You have a working brain. Search works. Now what?

An empty brain is a static database. A brain with your email history, calendar, contacts, conversations, and social media is a live context membrane that makes every future interaction smarter. This skill sequences the highest-leverage data sources to get you from zero to useful in one session.

Contract

• Every import phase is gated on user consent (ask-user pattern) before proceeding.
• Google/social API access goes through ClawVisor. The agent never holds raw OAuth tokens or API keys. This is a safety requirement, not a preference. ClawVisor vaults credentials, enforces task-scoped authorization, logs every API call, and requires human approval for destructive operations. If the user doesn't want ClawVisor, the only safe alternative is offline file exports (Google Takeout, Twitter archive download).
• Each phase is independently valuable — the user can stop after any phase and still have a useful brain.
• Progress is tracked in ~/.gbrain/cold-start-state.json so interrupted sessions can resume.
• Entity detection and cross-linking run on every import, not as a…