Build your first AI context.

You are going to help me build an AI context vault: a folder of plain text
files that any AI can read to understand my work and my life, so I never have
to explain myself from scratch again, and so I can change AI tools without
losing anything.

Work in three stages and do not skip ahead. Do not write any files until I
tell you to.

STAGE 1. INTERVIEW ME.

Ask ONE question at a time and wait for my answer before asking the next one.
Never send a list of questions. Keep every question short and in plain
English, the way you would ask someone over coffee. If an answer is vague, ask
one follow-up to get the specific version, then move on. If I say "I don't
know" or "skip", accept it and continue. Do not lecture me, do not give me
advice during the interview, and do not summarise my answers back to me
between questions.

Open with this exact question:

"Before we organise anything, tell me roughly what your life looks like right
now. What do your weeks actually go on? Work, side projects, money, family,
anything you're learning or building."

Then work through these areas. Ask enough in each to get real detail, and skip
anything that clearly does not apply to me:

1. The work. What I do for a living, what the business or the job is called,
   what it sells or what I am responsible for, and how long I have been at it.
2. Anything else I run. Side businesses, projects, a personal brand, things I
   make on the side. Ask what stage each one is at and how much of my week it
   takes.
3. What I sell and what it costs, if I sell anything. Products or services by
   name, prices, terms, and which ones actually make the money.
4. Who I deal with. Customers, clients, a team, suppliers, partners, anyone
   whose name comes up most weeks.
5. How the work happens, step by step, from first enquiry or first task
   through to finished and paid. Who does what, and what usually goes wrong.
6. Money. What I track, where the numbers live, what a good month looks like.
   Ask about personal money as well as business if I keep both.
7. The rest of my life. Household, family, health, travel, study, anything I
   plan for or keep records of outside work.
8. What I am learning or collecting. Reading, research, notes, references,
   the things I look up again and again.
9. How I sound in writing, and my rules. The words I use and the words I never
   use, what I will not promise anyone, and what must never leave my own
   files.

STAGE 2. PROPOSE THE STRUCTURE, THEN STOP AND WAIT.

When you have enough, tell me you are done asking. Then show me a folder
structure built from MY answers.

Do not use a standard template and do not copy anyone else's folders. Name the
folders after the worlds I actually described, using my own words for them. If
I told you I run a bakery and a photography side business and I look after my
parents, I should see those three things in the list.

Number the folders in tens so they hold a deliberate order and each one has a
stable address. Two of them are fixed because every vault needs them, and the
rest come from me:

  00 - Inbox      anything lands here first and nothing stays
  10 - ...        one folder per world I actually run
  20 - ...
  30 - ...
  ...
  90 - Knowledge  things I look up, rather than things I do
  99 - Archive    finished and dead, kept rather than deleted

Show it as a plain tree. Next to each folder put one short line saying what
belongs in it, and where it is not obvious, one saying what does not.

Then ask me exactly this: "Does this match how you actually think about your
life? Tell me anything to rename, merge, split or add."

Wait. Adjust it until I say it is right. Do not write a single file before I
say go.

STAGE 3. WRITE THE FILES.

Write these four, each with its filename as a heading and its contents in its
own code block, so I can copy them one at a time.

AGENTS.md
The front door. This is the file I paste in first whenever I open any AI tool,
so write it as instructions addressed to the AI, and keep it under one page:
- Who I am and what I run, in three or four lines.
- The order to read the other files in, and one line on what each one holds.
- The folder list, one line each, so it knows where to look for anything else.
- How to talk to me: how formal, how long, and whether to ask before assuming.
- What it must never do: invent facts, promise anything to a customer, or
  repeat anything I marked private.
- A line telling it to say what it is missing rather than guess.

CONTEXT.md
Who I am and what I run, in full. My work, my other projects, the people
around me, how the work gets done, how I sound in writing, and my rules. Write
it as a briefing for a capable new assistant on their first morning: enough
that they could act on my behalf without asking anyone. Use my own words
wherever I gave you good ones, and keep every price, term and rule exact.

MAP.md
The index. First the folder tree we agreed, with one line per folder saying
what belongs in it and one line saying where to start when that folder is
empty. Then a short section for where the real things live outside the vault:
the folder with the invoices, the sheet with the numbers, the inbox that
matters. One line each. Where I did not tell you, write "not yet recorded"
rather than guessing.

NOW.md
The short-life file: what is true this month and nothing else. What I am
working on right now, the numbers as they stand today, decisions taken
recently, and anything that changes soon. Ten to fifteen lines, with today's
date at the top. End it with a line saying this is the file I update most
often and that everything in it goes out of date.

RULES FOR EVERYTHING YOU WRITE.

Do not invent anything. If a fact did not come from me, it does not go in.
Where my answer was thin, add a short list at the end of that file titled
"Still to fill in", naming the gaps so I know what to go and find out. Write
in plain English with no jargon. Use ordinary sentences rather than bullet
fragments, except where a list is genuinely a list.

When all four are written, tell me in four short steps how to use them: make
the folders, save the four files at the top level, paste AGENTS.md at the
start of any new AI conversation, and update NOW.md whenever something
changes.

Start now with your first question.