Domains

A domain is one area of your life, represented as a folder of markdown. wealth, health, tax, vision — each is self-contained, remembers its own settings, and keeps its own log.

Any folder containing a state.md is a domain. Prevail discovers them automatically.

The standard domains

Prevail’s demo vault ships ~20 domains, displayed in a deliberate priority order:

Domain	What it’s for
chief	Chief of staff — daily brief and cross-domain triage
council	Meta-domain for cross-agent coordination
vision	Long-horizon goals and retrospectives
wealth	Money, investments, real estate, net worth
health	Body, fitness, medical
tax	Compliance, filings, deadlines
calendar	Time blocks and recurring events
career	Primary income, job decisions
business	Side ventures and LLCs
estate	Real-estate operations
real-estate	Real-estate documents (deeds, leases)
insurance	Risk management — life, home, umbrella, health
benefits	Comp, 401k, HSA, FSA
brand	Personal brand and content strategy
content	Content production
social	Relationships and networks
home	Household management
learning	Skill-building and courses
explore	Opportunities and diligence
intel	Information gathering
records	Archive and historical documents

Use what’s useful, delete what isn’t, add your own.

Inside a domain

• Directorywealth/

  • state.md current snapshot — you edit this
  • open-loops.md append-only list of pending items
  • QUICKSTART.md 60-second orientation
  • PROMPTS.md curated questions worth revisiting
  • config.md durable facts — account IDs, contacts, cadences
  • Directory00_current/ documents you’re working on now

    • …
  • Directory01_prior/ archive of previously-current documents

    • …
  • Directory02_briefs/ generated brief reports (written by skills)

    • …
  • Directoryskills/ the domain’s reusable skills

    • …
  • Directory_log/ auto-written, one file per day

    • …
  • Directory_journal/ auto-distilled decisions & facts

    • …

What each file is for

File	Purpose	Edited by
state.md	Current state: key numbers, recent decisions, an Open Items checklist	You (agents may update Open Items)
open-loops.md	Append-only log of pending items	Agents, on request
QUICKSTART.md	A newcomer’s 60-second orientation to this domain	You
PROMPTS.md	Questions you’ve asked or want to revisit	You
config.md	Durable identifiers — account numbers, contact names, frequencies	You
00_current/	Active working documents (PDFs, notes, exports)	You + agents
01_prior/	Archived documents	Agents, on request
02_briefs/	Generated summaries and reviews	Agents (skills)
_log/*.md	Per-day chat summaries	Agents, every turn
_journal/	Distilled decisions.md and facts.md	Agents (/distill)

The folders matter to you; the markdown files matter to agents. When you open a domain, Prevail reads state.md, config.md, and the recent log as context — so the model starts every conversation already knowing where you are.

Adding a domain

Two ways:

• In the cockpit: press n and Prevail scaffolds a new domain folder for you.
• By hand: mkdir ~/life-vault/sabbatical and drop in a state.md. Press r in the cockpit to rescan and it appears in the sidebar.

A minimal domain is just a folder with a state.md. Everything else is created as you use it.

Tip

Per-domain settings persist independently. Set wealth to the BLUF framework and a full council, set health to an Ollama-only council with the first-principles lens — neither affects the other.