**English** | [简体中文](SOP.zh-CN.md)

# user-md · Manual SOP (runnable by a human, no AI required)

> This is the discipline's **manual operation layer**: building / growing / using the profile file compressed into a card a human can run by hand — you (the user) can maintain the file yourself without an agent, and teams can use it as a "personal profile file maintenance procedure". The rule source remains `SKILL.md`; this card compresses, it does not add rules. Numeric thresholds live in the `references/curation.md` threshold table — never re-copied here.

**Build (ten minutes)**
1. Copy both templates from `templates/` to your workspace root: `USER.md` + `USER.local.md`.
2. Add `USER.local.md` to `.gitignore` (machine-local facts never enter the repo).
3. Spend five minutes filling the first four sections of `USER.md`: Who I am / How I work / Our relationship / What I'm up to. It runs even empty — but then your agent knows nothing about you.

**Grow (day to day)**
4. **Three routing lines**: invalid on another machine → `USER.local.md`; invalid in another project/role → that project's own local file; everything else → `USER.md`. Facts with an existing authoritative source get a pointer line, never a copy.
5. **Curated-lane append format**: `- 【date · source event】rule text.【single observation, unverified】` — date + source are each entry's birth certificate; write it the moment you spot it, don't batch from memory later.
6. **Promotion**: only when the same observation recurs past the threshold (see the table) do you merge curated entries into one line and move it into the hand-written lane — **only after you confirm it yourself**; emotional-moment statements get lowered confidence; one-off task demands are never curated.
7. **Periodic consolidation**: merge synonyms, clear stale entries (cadence per the table); over the size target, sink details into `user/*.md` with an index line left behind; every rewrite leaves one line in the change log at the file's end.
**Privacy self-check (before the file leaves this machine, every time)**
8. Review real names / contact info / employer internals / credential pointers item by item; plaintext passwords / API keys **never** enter this file family; a manual pass is mandatory before pushing to any public repo; confirm authorization scope before loading across projects or vendors.

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> Maintained in sync with the SKILL; recheck this card whenever the SKILL version bumps. If they diverge, `SKILL.zh-CN.md` is authoritative (Chinese is this repo's rule source).