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Rituals are the engine of 2bd. They prepare your workspace and archive your work at regular intervals.

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Two types of rituals

Planning rituals — Forward-looking. Prepare Captive notes from templates. Run in the morning (or start of period). Review rituals — Reflective. Archive Captive notes to Periodic. Run in the evening (or end of period).

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The ritual cycle

PeriodPlanningReview
DailyMorning — Prepare Today.mdEvening — Archive to Daily/
WeeklyMonday — Prepare Week.mdSunday — Archive to Weekly/
MonthlyFirst of month — Prepare Month.mdEnd of month — Archive to Monthly/
QuarterlyStart of quarter — Prepare Quarter.mdEnd of quarter — Archive to Quarterly/
YearlyJanuary — Prepare Year.mdDecember — Archive to Yearly/

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Running rituals

# Always run from the engine directory
cd ~/Code/2bd-engine

# Daily rituals
claude skill run ritual-planning-daily
claude skill run ritual-review-daily

# Weekly rituals
claude skill run ritual-planning-weekly
claude skill run ritual-review-weekly

# Monthly, quarterly, yearly follow the same pattern
claude skill run ritual-planning-monthly
claude skill run ritual-review-monthly

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What rituals do

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Planning rituals

  1. Load context — Read prior archives, calendar events, active projects
  2. Prepare workspace — Create Captive note from template
  3. Synthesize forward — Pull relevant information from prior periods
  4. Set intention — Help you establish priorities and leadership focus

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Review rituals

  1. Capture reflection — Guide you through wins, insights, carry-forward items
  2. Archive — Move Captive note to Periodic with proper naming
  3. Extract insights — Update People/, Projects/, Insights/ as needed
  4. Learn — Record observations about your patterns for template evolution

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Self-learning

Rituals learn from your behavior through an observation pipeline:
  1. Diff analysis — Compare output against template
  2. Session review — Track interaction patterns
  3. Clustering — Group similar observations
  4. Graduation — Stable patterns mature automatically
  5. Crystallization — You synthesize insights from patterns
  6. Template evolution — Insights update templates
This means your templates evolve to match how you actually work.
Note: Self-learning happens in the background during the Observe phase. You don’t need to do anything special—just run your rituals consistently.