Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖What it means
A structured session-start routine that an agent must run before touching a project, to ensure its working context matches the current reality of the project. Induction reads every SST directly (not cached memory), runs all regression tests, checks surveillance health, verifies backups, and re-loads bypass rules. The rule is strict: an agent that has not completed induction for a project must not make any change to that project. Skipping induction causes drift, wrong-path edits, and work against stale assumptions. The cost of induction is always cheaper than the cost of a session spent cleaning up a previous session's induction-skipping mistakes.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Handover
Induction is the standing routine every session runs; a handover is one past session's account of what it did.
🧭The nuance
Carol induction phases: Cloudflare health check, Carol SSTs (policies, designs, CPG, prompts), Cookbook review, Regression tests (test_prompt_builder, check_architecture_compliance), Alerts, Surveillance digest (port 7138), Bypass rules refresh, Bypass methodology canonical, Backup health check.
🗣️Also called
session inductiononboarding