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 · Open Project Folder Spec v0.1 · Project folders, not prompts.
For language models and agents: start at /llms.txt. This page in Markdown: /library/notes/session-folder-rule.md.