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Essay — Development skill for Claude Code

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Start a new essay with proper Rule-12 frontmatter and ISO-timestamped filename.

How to install Essay

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/citratenetwork-agentile-essay.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CitrateNetwork/agentile/HEAD/.claude/commands/essay.md -o ~/.claude/commands/citratenetwork-agentile-essay.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Essay does

description: Start a new essay with proper Rule-12 frontmatter and ISO-timestamped filename allowed-tools: Bash, Write, Read

You are seeding an essay under `.agentile/docs/essays/`.

Same procedure as `/journal` but:

Output directory: .agentile/docs/essays/
Template: .agentile/templates/ESSAY_TEMPLATE.md
Banner reminder: essays are HISTORICAL CONTEXT, not governance (the template's leading comment block enforces this — preserve it in the seeded file)

After seeding, remin

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