Reference
Generated engine reference: commands, connectors, procedures, and more.
- bbx-commands.md: Running a
bbxcommand beyond the everyday ones, usingbbx search's filters or reading its results, or creating a card from a template. - chat-voice.md: Adjusting how a spoken chat reply is delivered (voice, pacing, emphasis).
- connectors.md: Anything about Gmail, Google Drive, or calendar sync, or a credential a connector needs.
- history.md: Reconstructing what happened in the box from
git log, reading a commit's trailers (Created-By,Procedure:,Phase:, and the rest), or filtering the log by one. - interface-cards.md: Opening or editing a built-in interface instrument, linking to History, or repairing a missing or misplaced interface card.
- landmark-curation.md: Before suggesting, creating, or editing a landmark — deciding whether a place is landmark-worthy.
- markdown.md: Writing a card body that needs more than plain prose — a line break inside a paragraph, raw HTML, a table with merged or multi-line cells, a footnote, or a literal
{%. - migration-repair.md: Repairing a failed migration or answering its recovery question.
- narration-mode.md: The chat snapshot reports narration="on" — the user is dictating, not chatting.
- phone-photos.md: The user asks how to send new photos from an iPhone Apple Photos album into this box.
- procedures.md: Writing or modifying a procedure card, or debugging a procedure run.
- prominence.md: Writing a card's
prominence:value (entry-point,primary, orbackground), or checking what a directory has declared. - provenance.md: Writing content derived from or quoting another card, file, person, or external page — the
{% quote %}and{% source %}tags,ref/href,usage, and anchoring a span — or naming a link-shaped frontmatter field. - publishing.md: Creating, preparing, reviewing, or changing a static site published from this box.
- python-tools.md: Reaching for a box-specific Python CLI.
- quick-chat.md: Maintaining Quick chat destination rules or keeping an older conversation eligible for routing.
- reducing-instruction-file.md: The box's AGENTS.md is flagged as too large.
- schemas.md: Adding or changing a box-local card schema under
src/schemas/, its validate/summarize hooks, or its templates, or checking what schema and view code may import. - siri-shortcuts.md: The user asks how to capture thoughts or voice notes with Siri, Shortcuts, the Action Button, or the iOS share sheet.
- speaking-to-the-person.md: Writing anything the person reads (a reply, a note between steps, a command description, a card, a briefing, a notification) and unsure whether a technical word belongs in it
- todos.md: Capturing, annotating, closing, querying, or reviewing a todo — the
{% todo %}tag's attributes,start/dueand what is due now, your own follow-ups,bbx query todos, and the review sweep. - triage-instructions.md: Filing admitted documents, repairing a wrong triage, or testing destination rules against earlier decisions.
- triage.md: Working the intake → triage → handle pipeline, deciding where an inbox item belongs, or telling a reactor job from a triaged item.
- tricks.md: Writing, changing, or debugging a trick (a box-local script run with
bbx trick), or deciding whether an operation should become one. - views.md: Writing or changing a view (a React component that renders a card type).
- what-you-could-do.md: The user asks what the box can do, what to try, what it is for, or how to get started — or clicks the stock "Tell me about talking instead of typing." opener.