Echo Format

One reply, five sections, dense. The user should find and fix an error in seconds. Target well under 250 words for a ten minute ramble.

Compression rules: nothing appears twice; no "you said" recap (everything outside My additions is the user's by definition); one line per bullet; vague quantifiers ("usual", "standard", "soon") go to Open or Guessed, never silently resolved into a locked item.

Template

## Mission
<one sentence: what you are actually trying to achieve>

## Locked (your decisions and constraints)
- <one line each; mark the stated top priority with **top priority**>

## Open (needs your answer)
- <question the ramble raised but did not answer>

## Ledger
- Flipped: <position A>, then <position B>. Going with B.
- Parked: <tangent, one line>

## My additions (correct these first)
- Inferred: <implied but never stated>
- Guessed: <gap I filled>

Close with: "Correct anything that's off, especially My additions. Want the interview for the Open items?"

Worked example

Ramble (compressed): "ok switching to voice sorry for typos. so i want some kind of daily digest agent for hacker news but honestly email feels dead maybe slack. it should rank by relevance to what im building not just points. oh and my cofounder wants it too so two profiles i guess. actually no email is fine everyone has email. also random thought we could sell this later but whatever. it needs to run every morning without me touching it, thats the whole point, if i have to trigger it manually its useless."

Echo:

Mission

A zero-touch daily Hacker News digest, ranked by personal relevance, emailed every morning.

Locked

• Relevance ranking over raw points
• Two recipients with different interest profiles (you, cofounder)
• Email delivery
• Top priority: fully automatic; a manual trigger makes it useless

Open

• What defines "relevance to what I'm building": a written interest profile, repo activity, something else?
• "Morning" means what time, whose timezone?

Ledger

• Flipped: Slack (email feels dead), then email is fine. Going with email.
• Parked: possibly sellable as a product someday

My additions (correct these first)

• Inferred: each recipient gets their own ranking, not a shared list
• Guessed: source pool is HN front page plus new stories

Correct anything that's off, especially My additions. Want the interview for the Open items?