Practice
Sessions
The daily shape of the method. What to say at the start of a session, at the end, and once a week.
The method has no fixed schedule, but in practice it settles into a few habits. Each habit below starts with a phrase to say to your agent, and each phrase maps to a short, predictable sequence of calls. The agent’s side of every one of them is in the protocol.
| Say | When | What the agent does |
|---|---|---|
| “Where are we?” | Starting a session | Reads the graph and offers the one task at the top |
| “Let’s do the currency bug.” | Picking one up | Loads the task and works inside it |
| “Let’s stop here.” | Ending a session | Writes back, then tells you in one line what it wrote |
| “Go through my inbox.” | A few minutes free | Proposes a line per capture, in one batch |
| “Weekly review.” | Once a week | Works through what came due, then asks what is missing |
| “I’ve been away for two weeks.” | After a gap | Walks the after-absence order instead of catching up |
Starting a session
“Where are we?”
- The agent calls
get-next. Its one task answers “what should I do next”, and itscountssay how many reviews are due, how much has drifted and how many decisions wait on you. - It asks for each slice whose count is not 0, and says what it found: see review.
- If a lot is overdue, or you have been away, it suggests the after-absence order instead.
- It gives you that one task in a line and asks whether to start it. Ask for more only if you want to choose.
It does not reload yesterday’s conversation, re-read its own notes as if they were the record, or pick a task for you (P1).
Working on one task
“Let’s do the currency bug.”
The agent loads the task with get-task, takes it with its run (works_on) so no other agent works it, works inside it, and writes down anything outside it as an incubated task rather than doing it. See Engage.
Ending a session
“Let’s stop here.”
The agent writes back before it stops (GTF-S3), tidies after the delivery what a standing rule lets it, and tells you in one line what it wrote, naming each task by its link.
A session that ends without this leaves its work only in the conversation, which is where work disappears.
A few minutes free
“Go through my inbox.”
The agent reads list-captures and proposes one line per item, in one batch. You answer by number. Whatever you skip stays in the inbox, and that costs nothing. See Clarify.
Once a week
“Weekly review.”
This is not GTD’s full sweep. It works through the five sources of a review, then the incubated items that should become a commitment now or be dropped, the inbox if there is time, and one question to you: “Is there anything on your mind that isn’t in here?” That is GTD’s mind sweep, and the one step an agent cannot do for you.
After a gap
“I’ve been away for two weeks.”
The agent walks the after-absence order: risks, deadlines, waiting items, blockers, then the one next action. It does not open with the inbox, and it does not try to catch up first.