## KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

$ scire read "./knowledge"

Scire treats knowledge as a stream of structured text: each note is a file, each connection a path, each idea a command you can re-run later. There are no apps to open, no canvases to navigate, no inboxes to clear — only a session, a prompt, and the long memory of every line you have written.

   ┌─────────────┐    ┌─────────────┐    ┌─────────────┐
   │  capture    │──▶│   refine    │──▶│   recall    │
   │  raw text   │    │  & link    │    │   on demand │
   └─────────────┘    └─────────────┘    └─────────────┘
          │                  │                  │
          └─── append-only ──┴──── content-addressable ────┘
                    

• + append-only journals, never silently rewritten
• + content-addressable links between every note
• + every command leaves a trace you can grep later
• - opaque sync layers and proprietary blobs
• - "AI summaries" that hide the original sentence

## A SESSION TRANSCRIPT

$ scire capture
// pasted from clipboard, 412 chars
✔ stored as ~/scire/n/2026-03-19T0641.md
✔ indexed (12 tokens, 4 backlinks)

$ scire link --from 2026-03-19T0641 --to "terminal-aesthetic"
✔ link added  // graph edges: 1842

$ scire recall "why mono?"
3 matches in 12ms
  1. ~/scire/n/2026-02-04T2203.md   // "the grid is the page"
  2. ~/scire/n/2026-02-19T0911.md   // "ligatures earn their keep"
  3. ~/scire/n/2026-03-09T1648.md   // "monospace as restraint"

$ scire diff --since "yesterday"
+ added     14 notes
+ added     37 links
- removed   2  drafts
// net entropy: -0.018
                    

## PROCESS

The work is a recursion of four verbs: capture, refine, link, recall. Each verb is a subcommand. Each subcommand is a small program. Each program writes to stdout, so a session is auditable, replayable, diffable.

1. [01] capture — raw input lands in an append-only journal, timestamped to the millisecond.
2. [02] refine — you re-read what you wrote and re-write it tighter, line by line.
3. [03] link — explicit references between notes form a content-addressed graph.
4. [04] recall — future-you queries the graph from the prompt and reads the result.

## LIVE LOG

06:31:28 INFO  daemon started, pid 38114
06:31:28 INFO  mounted ~/scire at /store/01
06:31:29 INFO  indexed 12482 notes in 312ms
06:32:04 WARN  link cycle detected: "tmux" ↔ "panes"
06:32:04 INFO  resolved by mtime, kept newer
06:33:11 INFO  capture 412 chars from stdin
06:33:11 INFO  wrote ~/scire/n/2026-03-19T0641.md
06:34:02 INFO  recall "why mono?" — 3 hits, 12ms
06:34:48 +     note created — "the grid is the page"
06:35:17 INFO  graph snapshot — nodes=1842 edges=5117
06:36:00 INFO  diff vs yesterday: +14/-2  // entropy -0.018
06:36:30 INFO  idle — awaiting prompt