---
type: types/instruction.md
name: commonplace-kb
description: Vendored knowledge base on agent context engineering, memory and deploy-time learning - consult it before a design decision in those areas while developing this stack.
---

# Consult the vendored commonplace/ knowledge base

`commonplace/kb/` is a vendored knowledge base on agent context engineering, memory, and
deploy-time learning. It exists only in this dev instance - a distributed instance never
carries it (see [tools/CONTRACT.md](../../tools/CONTRACT.md) for what `dist export` excludes).

## When to run

- Before a design decision in this repo's own instruction/skill/context layer - not for wiki
  *content* questions, which stay inside `kb/`.

## Steps

1. Start at `commonplace/kb/notes/tags-README.md`.
2. Paths named inside `commonplace/kb/` are relative to `commonplace/`, not to this repo's root.
3. It is read-only in this project. To contest a claim, open an issue at
   https://github.com/zby/commonplace/issues - never edit it here.

## Scope

Only relevant while working in [stack-dev](stack-dev/SKILL.md) mode. Not part of the wiki
content pipeline, and not linked from anything outside `instructions/dev/`.