The four-write loop: the system learns

The exercise

1. Make a folder your assistant can read and write. Inside it, two empty plain text files: MEMORY.md and INSTRUCTIONS.md. That is the whole install.
2. Open the four-write loop prompt. Answer the four questions on that page (where your files live, which model sweeps, when it sleeps, the one mistake you never want twice). The prompt rewrites itself around your answers as you type. Copy it.
3. Paste it at the top of your assistant's standing instructions: the project file, the custom instructions, the system prompt, whichever your tool has. Point it at the folder from step 1.
4. Correct it once, in conversation, about something small. Then open MEMORY.md. The line should be there with today's date, why it was wrong, and how to do it right. If it is not, your tool cannot write files, and you now know that before it cost you anything.
5. Post that first correction in the room, in #wins, with the why and the how. A screenshot of the file counts. That is the checkpoint, and whoever posts first gets their build reviewed on the Friday stage.

Do it with somebody

Pair up: name the one mistake you never want your assistant to make twice, then swap files on Friday and check whether the other person's fact survived the sleep pass.

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