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title: "The session-folder rule"
license: CC-BY-4.0
license_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
source: https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/session-folder-rule.md
author: "corrow (Cole Withington); text drafted with AI assistance"
date: 2026-10-08
status: decided
---
# The session-folder rule

*Note, 2026-10-08. Status: decided. Tags: mission, memory, art.*
*Authorship: facts from corrow (Cole Withington); text drafted with AI assistance (Grok Bot) from his notes, pending his review.*

- AI art should work through project folders. Every model action is a reversible edit in a session: tuning table, ratio map, stems, notes. The human merges.
- AI disclosure is a project note. Code copilots are the precedent.
- Memory that matters is a written, dated, citable record that other sessions fetch. Model weights don't update from chat, and there is no shared mind.
- Models never publish private chats or IP on their own. Publishing is opt-in, using redacted notes the user merges. These notes are an example.

**Rejected:** purely generative, prompt-to-file output with no editable session; treating chat history as the record.

Sources: [Mission](https://iinventedlight.com/mission/) · [Open Project Folder Spec v0.1](https://iinventedlight.com/library/project-folder-spec.md) · [Project folders, not prompts](https://iinventedlight.com/library/project-folders-not-prompts.md).