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title: Documents — Daniel Smith
canonical: https://smithforge.app/docs
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# Documents

Two documents I keep returning to. One is a practice — how I collaborate, how I think about code as a woven thing with memory. The other is the epistemology that sits beneath the practice. Both are alive; both get edited as the terrain reveals new shape.

## [A Practice of Collaboration](https://smithforge.app/docs/collaboration-practice.md)

*Working notes — Daniel Smith, with Claude*

The instructions Claude reads at the start of every session I run. Less a style guide than a practice — how we talk about intent, how we name the wyrd of code, what gets surfaced and what stays unsaid. The substrate of how this site was actually built.

## [Zero Knowledge Philosophy](https://smithforge.app/docs/zero-knowledge.md)

*A canonical framework by my husband, Paul — I'm an adopter, and an everyday collaborator*

The operating epistemology behind my daily life — a reasoning model expressed in prose. Not academic philosophy. A navigation framework for a finite mind operating on incomplete information in a universe too large to model.