Anatomy
The components, skills, and wiring behind SYD. Click any part to explore.
SYD is modelled as a human body. Each organ represents a layer of capability — from the Diet (what comes in) to the Armour (permission shell that protects real-world actions). Click any organ to view its detail. For the session loop, see Design.
Everything SYD consumes. Quality of input = quality of output.
Five input channels: web eyes, audio ears, vault read, vault write, command voice.
The decision-maker. Sonnet for daily work, Opus for complex reasoning. Temp 0.3–0.9.
What loads at the start of every session. Working context. Bounded by token budget.
Decisions already made. Mistakes already logged. Pre-flight reads these before multi-step tasks.
The daily briefing. Verse → priorities → open threads → mail → intention. Keeps SYD grounded.
Faith thread in every brief. NIV always. Non-negotiable. Drives the intention prompt.
What Nick actually cares about. Goals.md. Morning intention. The 'why' behind each session.
Nick's unique writing style and creative philosophy. Used for all written output.
Active voice. Oxford comma. No AI-sounding text. Confident-direct, warmth present but not dominant.
Work domain. IBM Executive Partner, DACH region, SDQ practice. IBM content → Box only, never iCloud.
Everything SYD can actually do. 36+ skills, 13 MCPs, 20 scheduled tasks, File tools, Bash.
Personal domain. Family (Concha, Oblinger, Biddle, Wright, Williamson), faith, home, projects (Ancestry, A&A 1942).
The numbered folder system. Each top-level folder has a fixed purpose — changing it breaks cross-session references.
Managing the limited context window. Breath in = load. Breath out = session summary. Token hygiene.
Transformation layer. Raw inputs (PDFs, emails, notes) → structured outputs (Word, vault entries, summaries).
SYD's detox. Clears stale inputs, archives done projects, sweeps iCloud conflict siblings.
Connective tissue linking all SYD components. MCP servers, plugin registry, tool routing, ntfy.sh.
Defense against repeating past mistakes. ERR-xxx entries. Pre-flight required before multi-step tasks.
The bookending discipline. Every work block begins with orientation, ends with a closure card.
The daily rituals. Morning brief anchors the day. Verse → verse → priorities → mail → intention.
SYD never takes consequential real-world action without Nick's explicit go-ahead. GREEN / AMBER / RED.