Idea Ingest Skill

Filing rule: Read skills/_brain-filing-rules.md before creating any new page.

Contract

This skill guarantees:

• Every ingested item has a brain page with genuine analysis (not just a summary)
• The author gets a people page (MANDATORY for anyone whose thinking is worth ingesting)
• Cross-links created bidirectionally (source ↔ author, source ↔ mentioned entities)
• Raw source preserved for provenance via gbrain files upload-raw
• Every fact has an inline [Source: ...] citation
• Filing follows primary subject rules (not format-based)

Returns (when invoked by another skill or sub-agent):

• page_path: brain page path of the ingested item (e.g., concepts/flywheel-effects)
• author_path: brain page path of the author (e.g., people/alice-example)
• cross_links: list of all cross-links created
• status: ingested | updated | fetch_failed

Convention: See skills/conventions/quality.md for Iron Law back-linking.

Every mention of a person or company with a brain page MUST create a back-link. Format: - **YYYY-MM-DD** | Referenced in [page title](path) — brief context

Phases

1. Fetch the content. Use appropriate t…