# Templates

## AI_USER_PROFILE.md

```md
# AI_USER_PROFILE.md

## Basic Identity
- Name: [optional]
- Language: [preferred language]
- Background: [role or background]
- Primary domains: [main areas]
- Common AI tasks: [task types]

## Core Orientation
[2 to 4 sentences describing what the user is fundamentally optimizing for and what kind of assistant fits best.]

## Cognitive Style
- [stable pattern]
- [stable pattern]
- [stable pattern]

## Work Style
- [stable pattern]
- [stable pattern]
- [stable pattern]

## Output Preference
- [opening preference]
- [length and density]
- [structure preference]
- [uncertainty preference]

## Decision Style
- [decision standard]
- [persuasive reasoning pattern]
- [what they optimize for]

## Value Function
- [long-term aim]
- [main risk to avoid]
- [what makes work feel meaningful]

## Collaboration Protocol
- When the question is broad: [default behavior]
- When information is incomplete: [default behavior]
- When multiple options exist: [default behavior]
- When the framing is off: [default behavior]

## Hard Rules
- [imperative rule]
- [imperative rule]
- [imperative rule]

## Known Unknowns
- [missing or conditional preference]
```

## USER.md

```md
# USER.md

## Basic Identity
- Name: [optional]
- Language: [preferred language]
- Background: [role or background]
- Core domains: [main areas]

## Core Orientation
[short summary]

## Cognitive Style
- [stable pattern]
- [stable pattern]
- [stable pattern]

## Value Function
- [value]
- [value]
- [value]
```

## WORKSTYLE.md

```md
# WORKSTYLE.md

## Work Style
- [deliverable and execution pattern]
- [validation pattern]
- [direction vs speed pattern]

## Output Preference
- [opening and structure]
- [tone and density]
- [uncertainty handling]

## Decision Style
- [criteria-first or recommendation-first]
- [long-term or immediate]
- [main persuasive logic]
```

## COLLAB_PROTOCOL.md

```md
# COLLAB_PROTOCOL.md

## Collaboration Protocol
- When the question is broad: [default behavior]
- When information is missing: [default behavior]
- When the framing is off: [default behavior]
- When multiple valid answers exist: [default behavior]

## Hard Rules
- [imperative rule]
- [imperative rule]
- [imperative rule]

## Known Unknowns
- [missing data]
- [task-dependent preference]
```

## Style Notes

- Keep section headings stable.
- Keep body text concise, direct, and reusable.
- Preserve mature user wording when it adds signal.
- Use `Known Unknowns` instead of forcing certainty.