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Starter packs (doxa packs) + startup-wisdom pack + RAG-difference note#20

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Solves the cold start: install doxa, face an empty base, "what do I ingest?". Starter packs give value at install time.

doxa packs -- list / info / install / export. A pack is beliefs/quotes/sources JSONL + pack.json; a bundled registry maps a name to where the files live. install fetches + merges (dedup by id) and auto-creates a base if you don't have one; export builds a pack from any base, filtered by ingest tag.

Licensing-safe by design -- packs ship short verbatim quotes + source links, never full source text (a citation index, not a corpus). Hosted as a GitHub release asset, not in the MIT source tree (honors CONTRIBUTING). Opt-in.

Flagship pack startup-wisdom (published as release startup-wisdom-v1): ~13,957 beliefs + ~13,160 quotes from Lenny's Podcast, Stanford View From The Top, Paul Graham, and Y Combinator -- each pinned to a verbatim quote + a link. doxa packs install startup-wisdom (verified end-to-end from the live release).

Discoverability -- surfaced in the landing, doxa guide, empty-base hints, help epilog, SKILL.md, and AGENTS.md.

Also: a concise "doxa vs. a RAG app" section in the README.

  • tests (registry, export normalize + strip-text, install auto-init + dedup). Full suite 113 passing.

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Cold start was the weak point: install doxa and you face an empty base and "what do
I ingest?". Starter packs fix that with value at install time.

- `doxa packs list/info/install/export`. A pack = beliefs/quotes/sources JSONL +
  pack.json; the bundled registry (_assets/packs/registry.json) maps a name to where
  the files live. `install` fetches + merges (dedup by id) and auto-creates a base if
  there isn't one. `export` builds a pack from any base, filtered by ingest tag.
- Packs ship short verbatim quotes + source links but NOT full source text -- a
  citation index, not a corpus dump (licensing-safe; hosted as a release asset, not in
  the MIT source tree).
- Flagship: `startup-wisdom` -- ~14k founder/product/growth beliefs from Lenny's
  Podcast, Stanford View From The Top, Paul Graham, and Y Combinator, each pinned to a
  quote + link. Opt-in; `doxa packs install startup-wisdom`.
- Discoverability: surfaced in the landing, `doxa guide`, the empty-base hints, the
  help epilog, SKILL.md, and AGENTS.md so users/agents know it exists.
- README gains a concise "doxa vs. a RAG app" section.

+ tests (registry, export normalize+strip-text, install auto-init + dedup). Suite 113 passing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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