Your public builder journal and ecosystem command center. This is the shared orientation point for you and your AI agents — a single place to understand what you're building, why it matters, what order work should happen in, and where public/private boundaries sit.
Builder Journal tracks the direction of your software ecosystem at a public-safe level: ambitions, active builds, upcoming builds, repository health, maintenance priorities, product decisions, and agent notes that can be shared without exposing sensitive details.
Early foundation. Not a product, not a production system, and not a source of private operational truth. The initial goal is a stable documentation structure before deeper planning, repo health tracking, and agent-specific workflows are added.
Builder Journal supports your ecosystem by:
- recording strategic direction without oversharing private details;
- distinguishing public, private, sensitive, and experimental projects;
- tracking build order and maintenance priorities;
- preserving key product decisions and tradeoffs;
- giving your agents shared context before they work in individual repositories.
The canonical standards for repository hygiene, documentation, security, releases, public/private boundaries, and agent behavior live in ecosystem-standards. When this repository and the standards disagree, the standards repository wins.
You (and any agent working on your behalf) may use Builder Journal to:
- understand current ecosystem priorities before changing another repository;
- update public-safe status notes when work lands;
- add restrained decision records after meaningful product or architecture choices;
- record maintenance tasks without exposing secrets, credentials, infrastructure details, or private workflows;
- keep README, changelog, status, and boundary docs consistent with
ecosystem-standards.
What not to put here: private plans, credentials, raw operational data, private betting data, personal documents, or implementation details for private systems. This is a public journal — describe purposes and boundaries, not internals.
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
AMBITIONS.md |
Public-safe ambitions and direction |
CURRENT_STATUS.md |
Snapshot of ecosystem project status |
BUILD_PIPELINE.md |
Recommended build order and sequencing |
ECOSYSTEM_MAP.md |
High-level public/private project map |
PRINCIPLES.md |
Operating principles for the ecosystem |
SECURITY_BOUNDARIES.md |
Public/private and sensitive-data rules |
DECISIONS.md |
Product and ecosystem decisions |
MAINTENANCE.md |
Maintenance model and recurring care |
CHANGELOG.md |
Versioned history |
agents/ |
Agent coordination, handoff templates, and agent-specific rules |
plans/ |
Build roadmaps for upcoming ecosystem projects |
templates/ |
Reusable templates for build plans, handoffs, and decision logging |
Builder Journal is a planning and coordination repository. It does not replace private project documentation, legal review, security audits, financial records, or operational runbooks. Public entries may stay intentionally high-level when the underlying project is private, sensitive, or experimental.
MIT License. See LICENSE.
Last updated: June 2026