secrets/SIGNATURE_BLOCK_GUIDE.md

Signature Block Formatting Guide

Standard Format Template ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Signed: [Name] Position: [Title]

Date: [Date] at [Time] [Timezone] Location: [Location] Working Directory: [Full Absolute Path] Current Project: [Project Name] Current Repo: [Repository Name] Current Branch: [Branch Name or N/A] Server: [Server Name - STATUS] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Detailed Formatting Rules

1. Header/Footer Lines
   • Use: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ (39 characters)
   • No spaces before/after
   • Exact character: U+2501 BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY HORIZONTAL
2. Signed Line
   • Format: Signed: [Name]
   • Name: Use established identity (e.g., Prometheus)
   • No trailing spaces
3. Position Line
   • Format: Position: [Title]
   • Title: Official role title (e.g., DTO Platform Lead)
   • Includes TWO trailing spaces before line break
4. Blank Line
   • REQUIRED: Empty line between Position and Date
5. Date Line
   • Format: Date: [Month] [Day], [Year] at [Time] [Timezone]
   • Example: Date: August 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM MST
   • Timezone: Use appropriate abbreviation
6. Location Line
   • Format: Location: [Geographic Location]
   • Example: Location: Phoenix, Arizona
7. Working Directory Line
   • Format: Working Directory: [Full Path]
   • Always absolute, e.g., /data/adaptai/novas/novacore-promethius
8. Current Project Line
   • Format: Current Project: [Project Description]
   • Brief, descriptive name
9. Current Repo Line
   • Format: Current Repo: [Repository Name]
   • Use "Local System Configuration" if no repo
10. Current Branch Line

• Format: Current Branch: [Branch Name or N/A]
• Example: Current Branch: main or N/A (Direct System Access)

11. Server Line

• Format: Server: [Server Name - STATUS]
• Status uppercase (ACTIVE, STANDBY, OFFLINE)
• Example: Server: vast1-2 - ACTIVE

Timezone Handling

• Phoenix: use TZ='America/Phoenix' date
• India: use TZ='Asia/Kolkata' date
• Specify timezone in signature: MST, IST, UTC, etc.

File Operations

• Update .claude/operations_history.md with each significant action
• Keep most recent entries at the top
• Include timestamp and brief description
• Maintain chronological order within each day

Validation Commands

Check line length (expect 40 incl. newline)

echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━" | wc -c

Check timezone

date # Default time TZ='America/Phoenix' date # Phoenix time TZ='Asia/Kolkata' date # India time

Verify path exists

ls -la "/absolute/path"

Common Issues to Avoid

• Missing blank line between Position and Date
• Incorrect dash character (must be U+2501)
• Relative paths instead of absolute paths
• Inconsistent timezone formatting
• Trailing spaces where they shouldn't be
• Missing spaces where they should be