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id: "0012"
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date: 2026-06-04
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status: Accepted
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supersedes:
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superseded-by:
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affected-paths: []
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affected-components: []
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migration_confidence: medium
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migration_source: "docs/memory-system/03-architecture-decisions.md### ADR-012 — Reuse the existing SecondBrain vault as the knowledge vault"
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---
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# 0012 — Reuse the existing SecondBrain vault as the knowledge vault
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## Context
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The design called for a flat markdown vault as the semantic knowledge layer
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(ADR-003/008/010). The question was whether to stand up a new `~/brain` vault from scratch
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or adopt the existing `~/Documents/SecondBrain` vault.
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## Decision
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**Adopt `~/Documents/SecondBrain`** as the knowledge vault rather than
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creating a new vault.
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- **Rationale**: Assessment found the SecondBrain vault is already flat (all notes at root,
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only a `_templates/` exception — exactly what the design permits), already articulates the
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correct "durable knowledge, not working memory" role in its `CLAUDE.md` and
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`vault-conventions.md`, and contains ~20 real notes. It also includes two patterns that
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**improve on the current design** and should be adopted:
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1. `vault-conventions.md`'s "act without being asked" section specifying *when* the AI
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should proactively query the vault — a behavioral spec the cc-os docs lacked.
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2. Project-config hub notes with a tag-inference table (auto-tag by path pattern) that
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operationalizes *how* to tag a note from a given project.
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- **Adaptations required (migration cost)**:
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- Add `summary:` frontmatter to existing notes.
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- Migrate flat unnamespaced tags to the six-facet namespaced form (per ADR-011).
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- Add `scope/global` or `scope/project` to each note.
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- Initialize git in the vault (no `.git` exists yet — required by ADR-008's sync strategy).
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- Replace the vault's `~/.claude/scripts/vault_search.rb` reference (script does not exist)
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with `graphify query` (ADR-010).
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These are mechanical schema migrations, not structural rework.
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## Consequences
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The existing ~/Documents/SecondBrain vault is adopted as the knowledge vault instead of creating a new one, since it was already flat and already articulated the correct durable-knowledge role, and it contributes two design improvements (proactive-query behavior spec and a project-config tag-inference table) to be adopted. This requires mechanical migration work: adding summary frontmatter, migrating tags to the six-facet form, adding scope tags, initializing git, and replacing a nonexistent script reference with graphify query.
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## Alternatives rejected
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Starting fresh with a new `~/brain` vault. Rejected because the
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hardest design decision — flat structure, durable-knowledge-only role, governance philosophy
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— is already made and practiced in SecondBrain. The improved behavioral patterns
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(proactive-query spec, tag-inference table) and the existing notes are worth preserving; the
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remaining work is mechanical migration.
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