Ingest

---
name: ingest
description: Fetch requested source material and prepare sourced engagement updates. Use to catch up from external notes or messages; applying updates requires a bound record and confirmation.
---

# ingest

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## Purpose

Sourced proposed updates, with confirmed record application when bound.

Before investigating or acting:
1. Read [the task context contract](references/task-context.md).
2. Read [the method](references/ingest.md).

Load further references only when the task needs them. Everything linked is included in this skill; no other skill pack is required.

## Principles

- Use permitted supplied material or available source tools to prepare a sourced proposal without requiring an engagement record. CLI staging and reconciliation use a bound engagement; applying updates requires the bound record and confirmation. Do not claim an unbound draft has been saved to engagement memory.
- If called by @fde, reuse its current sanitized packet and scope. Do not restart setup, discovery or questions already answered.
- The task context contract controls persistence and authority in both modes. Preserve unknowns and distinguish implementation, verification, deployment and acceptance.
- Use the customer's repository instructions and available tools. Report a missing capability or unrun check honestly; do not claim that installing a skill provisions infrastructure.