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.
• The agent never holds raw OAuth tokens or API keys. This is a safety requirement, not a preference. Three paths satisfy it for Google data: the native connector (gbrain google setup — tokens live in gbrain's credential vault, mode 0600, never in the agent's context; see docs/guides/google-connect.md and skills/google-loops/SKILL.md), ClawVisor (a hosted credential gateway that vaults credentials, enforces task-scoped authorization, logs every API call, and requires human approval for destructive operations — needs a harness with the integration), or offline file exports (Google Takeout, Twitter archive download).
• Each phase is independently valuable — the user can st…