{"node":{"id":"3d0476c4-cd97-4bca-960a-d709a0dde183","handle":"3d04","type":"note","authorName":"Vincent Yeung","intent":"recipe","title":"Pattern: re-alignment","aiSummary":"After a reset, ask the AI to summarise its understanding of the situation and objectives. Correct until it matches what you expect, then continue. Can be turned into a skill.","content":"**When:** the AI has just come back from a reset, or you are not sure it still has the right picture.\n\n**Built from:** the context window, and the fact that a summary made from inside a window is only as good as that window.\n\nAsk it to give a summary of its understanding of the current situation, including what the objectives are. Read it. Correct anything that is off, until what it thinks it is doing matches what you expect. Only then let the work carry on.\n\n**As a skill:** ask the AI to turn this page into a skill, and run it after every compact or restart.","capturedAt":"2026-09-14T04:36:50.469Z","createdAt":"2026-09-14T04:36:50.470Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-15T05:13:39.579Z","spanId":null,"contributor":null,"audiences":[{"kind":"public","createdAt":"2026-09-14T04:36:50.470Z"}],"fingerprint":"b983d4f20d65b6087343d24f2fa835f8f0e2adc54ce316f8152e4154527d3aa8","revisionNo":"2","structureHash":"81c2cdfddcd01624375fb9e7aee81db22e815903690da53a366d20ca47d30ff7","page":"https://lattris.com/by/b/memories/3d0476c4-cd97-4bca-960a-d709a0dde183"},"links":[{"direction":"in","verb":"references","reason":"only if the AI has just come back from a reset or compact, or you doubt it still has the right picture","hash":"f740eae3e3d0fb5ef1bb14f0dac715d0b14ee01514e84ea7da045242fca67bd6","node":{"id":"331896d2-2e9d-46b1-b56c-048a18ee23eb","handle":"3318","type":"note","title":"Patterns: a library","aiSummary":"Index of the author's patterns, one page each, built from the basics. Any pattern can be turned into a skill by asking the AI. So far: the handover, re-alignment, the clean summary, plan-execute-review, saving state for next time, knowledge reconciliation, starting a new codebase, and making an existing module readable. Grows as pages are added.","erased":false,"href":"https://lattris.com/api/lattris/by/b/memories/331896d2-2e9d-46b1-b56c-048a18ee23eb?links=1","fingerprint":"fdb88831a4949e6d2796f6f2ec65f612903ec02e487ecea76821973013ef633c","revisionNo":"9","structureHash":"ebf9a8041d4dce367db54d851720a324d11c8ecd3a5256931024e47d01638c7f","intent":"recipe","authorName":"Vincent Yeung","page":"https://lattris.com/by/b/memories/331896d2-2e9d-46b1-b56c-048a18ee23eb"}},{"direction":"in","verb":"references","reason":"only if you want the full re-alignment step this pattern uses in step 5","hash":"790a4308defefe7fae5e01c2da3bf26591aeb8898b0d2728666c248177f3a0b8","node":{"id":"a97b3a18-fa1f-4edf-8edb-82f41fd3aedd","handle":"a97b","type":"note","title":"Pattern: align before you give it more","aiSummary":null,"erased":false,"href":"https://lattris.com/api/lattris/by/b/memories/a97b3a18-fa1f-4edf-8edb-82f41fd3aedd?links=1","fingerprint":"74f20963d5ea1705a3aef44bbf792cedc82d2c85cf6aa8a1e8171a3c43c6c58b","revisionNo":"2","structureHash":"626cf8e2db554757881ded5f14c72078264dc83b74f2415ca8b031f518336649","intent":"recipe","authorName":"Vincent Yeung","page":"https://lattris.com/by/b/memories/a97b3a18-fa1f-4edf-8edb-82f41fd3aedd"}}],"dictionary":{"lattris":"A personal knowledge base — how a person captures what they know as linked blocks they own and control. To understand how this knowledge base works: https://lattris.com/by/4/memories/lattris-a-memory-store-for-your-life-43ff","intents":"Every block can carry an intent — a label for how far you have taken the idea. The scale runs from noticing something to acting on it: noticed (something caught your attention), learning (you are working it out), truth (you are saying this is how things are), decision (you chose a course), action (you did it). Recipe sits outside that scale — it is not a stronger claim, it is a different kind of thing: a procedure, a how-to, a set of steps that ties other knowledge together. Intent is optional — leaving it blank just means you have not labelled it yet."},"instructions_to_ai":"This is a recipe from a personal knowledge base. Read it and apply it to what the person you're talking to is working on. Follow the linked blocks to explore further related topics if it might be useful to the user; open each at its page address. Start by letting the user know what the recipe is about and how it may benefit them."}