Grow Your Own Second Brain — KNG Lab GuideGrow a second brain that fits your workspace, not mine.
The principles and starter prompts behind the second brain system, so Claude can build one around your own files, folders and memory.
- 5 principles, each with a starter prompt
- Prompts that interview you before building
- Memory lookups in plain code, model called once
- Tests and /goal prompts to prove it works
WHAT'S INSIDE
Grow Your Own Second Brain
Five principles, each with a starter prompt you can paste as-is. The prompts deliberately ask Claude to interview you before building — answering its questions is where your workspace's shape gets in.
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INSIDE THE GUIDE
Five principles, each with a starter prompt:
THE ONE THING TO HOLD ONTO
Every workspace is different. The way my files, folders and memory are organised isn't the way yours are — so my exact system would fit you badly. What carries over are the principles. Hand these to Claude, let it study your workspace, and let it build your version.
- 01Research before you buildPull what's actually working right now, read your workspace, and only then plan.
- 02Stand on proven shouldersFour open-source memory projects worth studying: borrow the right ideas, copy none of them wholesale.
- 03Deterministic code before the modelKeywords, scoring, one file, one section — all plain code. The model is called exactly once, at the end.
- 04Keep a small index of everythingOne catalogue file, one line per memory, so lookups stay cheap forever.
- 05Make it prove itselfA fair test against a default session, plus /goal prompts that make Claude check its own speed.
WHAT YOU NEED
- Claude Code with Fable 5 — it runs on its own separate usage limits, so make that budget count on the heavy lifting
- A workspace with some history in it: notes, projects, memory files
- An hour or two of letting Claude work, checking in between steps
THIS IS FOR YOU IF...
- You work in Claude Code and have a workspace with real history in it
- You want a memory system built around your files, not a copy of someone else's
- You want memory lookups that are faster and cheaper than a default session
- You can spend an hour or two letting Claude build while you answer its questions
NOT FOR YOU IF...
- You want a ready-made system to copy as-is
- Your workspace is still empty — the brain needs something to organise
- You don't use Claude Code
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