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name: second-brain-pipeline description: Classify and organize Second Brain atoms into PARA/CODE structures with confidence and conflict flags.

Second Brain Pipeline

Purpose

Classify and organize Second Brain knowledge atoms into PARA structures with explicit confidence and conflict flags after Sync Work ingest.

Use this skill when processing Second Brain atoms after Sync Work.

Capture

• Identify whether each atom is a task, risk, decision, insight, dependency, or skip.
• Preserve source facts. Do not invent business context that is not present in title, summary, labels, source provider, or metadata.
• Mark skip=true for noise, empty records, duplicates, or records that are not useful organizational memory.

Organise

• Assign area_key only when the business vertical is clear.
• Assign para_bucket using PARA: project for time-bound outcomes, area for ongoing responsibility, resource for reference material, archive for stale/closed records.
• Use confidence < 0.6 and conflict_flag=true when the atom has mixed signals or weak vertical evidence.
• Human approval remains the gate for proposals and materialization.

When to Use

• After Sync Work ingest completes and atoms need agentic classification.
• When reviewing unclassified org-visible atoms via second_brain_list_unclassified.
• When suggesting classification metadata with second_brain_classify_atom without materializing changes.

When NOT to Use

• Direct planning materialization without a human-approved proposal.
• Per-agent CML memory workflows (use syncolab-cognitive-memory instead).
• Arbitrary doc search without Second Brain atom context.

Expected Outcome

• Capture output with signal_type, urgency, skip, and dimensions.
• Organise output with area_key, para_bucket, confidence, conflict_flag, and mapped_entity_type.
• Weak or mixed signals flagged for human review instead of forced classification.

Workflow

1. List or search candidate atoms (second_brain_list_unclassified, second_brain_search_atoms).
2. Run Capture: classify signal_type, urgency, skip, and dimensions from source facts only.
3. Run Organise: assign area_key, para_bucket, confidence, conflict_flag, and mapped_entity_type.
4. Use second_brain_classify_atom for suggest-only review; do not materialize without pipeline or human approval.
5. Surface proposals for human approval before planning materialization.

Tool Availability Rules

Access	Behavior
Full Second Brain tools	Inspect atoms, proposals, and classification candidates.
Read-only	List and search; do not materialize organise results without pipeline approval.
No integration	State limitation; do not fabricate atom metadata.

Related tool sets

• second-brain
• planning
• internal-wiki

Output Format

Report:

1. Atoms processed and stages completed (Capture / Organise).
2. Classification results with confidence and conflict flags.
3. Items skipped or deferred for human review.
4. Recommended next steps (proposal review, re-classify, or materialization).

Quality Bar

• Ground every classification in atom title, summary, labels, provider, or metadata.
• Prefer conflict_flag=true over guessing when signals are weak.
• Concise summaries unless the user asked for detail.

Safety and Boundaries

• Do not invent business verticals or PARA buckets without evidence in the atom.
• Prefer conflict_flag=true over guessing when signals are weak.
• Proposal approval and task materialization remain human gates.