Pack
A pack is a named set of genres, workflows, library-wide rules and journal kinds for one kind of work. Switching it on in the charter adds them to the whole library and rewrites nothing.
The core genres suit any library. A pack adds what one kind of work needs: the knowledge-base pack keeps sources and readings apart, and the lab pack gives every measured number one home. Several packs on at once still make one library, with one search and one graph.
Layers over the core
folio ships two packs. This library has both on. Switch each off and on, and watch what the library offers for new work. The core stays, and so do the skills on top.
Read
The charter, every genre and every workflow that is on, each time they start.
Never change
A pack brings no skill. The run skill follows its workflows; write follows its cards.
Genres
question, protocol, result, claim, report
Workflows
record-a-result, write-a-report
Rules
uncited-number, cites-superseded
Journal kinds
lock, run, kill, instrument, pivot
Genres
source, reading, survey
Workflows
ingest, quiz
Rules
unverified-identifier
Journal kinds
None of its own.
Genres
concept, note, entry, map, guide, project, journal, paper
Workflows
None. A library adds its own.
Rules
The gate checks only. No library-wide rule.
Journal kinds
decision, lesson, correction, retraction
Off hides a pack's genres and workflows from new work. Documents already written in its genres stay valid, and its rules stop running.
What switching one on does
It adds
Its genres, workflows, rules and journal kinds, to the whole library at once. The charter lists it under packs:, and the configure skill records the change in the journal.
It rewrites nothing
No existing document is changed. A pack's rules can flag documents written before it was on, such as a number with no result to cite; the organise skill proposes the fixes.
Where packs come from
- Shipped with folioknowledge-base and lab.
- The library's ownIn its
packs/folder.folio pack addgathers library genres and workflows into one. - A git repositoryPinned in the charter by its address and a commit.
Related
Each pack adds genres under names no other genre uses; it never redefines a core one.
Its rules at the gate
A pack's rules are checks the gate runs across the whole library while the pack is on. A library's own pack can only combine checks the gate already has.