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catchup

Rebuild the human's lost context on a project from live state, in plain language: what needs them, what changed, what new words mean. Use when the human returns after a gap, says they can't follow the project anymore, asks what happened or what a term means, or before deciding what to do next when their mental model is stale. Read-only; it briefs, it does not act.

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Catch the human up at their eye level, from state, not from memory.

## Goal

`catchup` is the re-entry point for a lost human. Long agent cycles coin words, rename files, run
experiments, and make calls faster than the owner can follow. Before any next action makes sense,
the owner's mental model must be reloaded. `catchup` reads the live project state and returns a
briefing a person with zero retained context can act on. It runs before the next move gets decided:
catchup restores the map, so that decision starts from truth instead of a stale memory of it.

## Workflow

1. Read live state only: recent file mtimes, git log/diffs, plan and state docs, re0-memo notes,
   task boards. Never brief from conversation memory alone — memory is what drifted.