Read the daemon's current status including phase, word count, and accept rate.

Call this first to orient yourself.

Add a note that the daemon reads at each scene boundary.

Notes are the primary feedback mechanism — use them to steer the story, protect elements you like, flag concerns, or record observations.

Read the current story premise from PROGRAM.md or soul.md.

The premise seeds the daemon's creative direction.

Write or overwrite the story premise as soul.md plus PROGRAM.md.

The daemon reads this at startup to seed the story direction. Overwrites any existing premise — use get_premise first if you want to edit rather than replace.

Read the human-readable progress summary.

Includes story outline, word counts, and current chapter status.

Read the durable work target registry.

Shows what the daemon is working on, what's queued, and lifecycle state.

Read the latest review-state snapshot including daemon phase, word count, and accept rate.

Read a completed chapter from the daemon's output.

Read the most recent lines from the daemon's activity log.

Shows scene completions, reviews, and errors.

Pause the daemon at the next scene boundary.

The daemon checks for a pause signal between scenes.

Resume a paused daemon by removing the pause signal.

Add a reference document to the canon/ directory for the daemon to ingest.

Canon files provide worldbuilding context — character sheets, maps, lore documents, timelines, style guides, or any reference material the daemon should know about.