# GROK’it Baton: Build Your Record

Version 1.0 · https://grokit.liftthesparks.com/batons · License: MIT

**Purpose:** Keep a record that lets you, or anyone, pick up the work without starting over.

## How to use this baton
- **Printed, or alone:** work down the page with a pen. Every question can be answered without a computer.
- **With an AI (works with any capable AI):** paste this whole baton first, then your situation, and say: "Follow this baton. Ask me the questions one at a time. Mark everything KNOWN, ASSUMED or UNKNOWN. Stop at every human gate and wait for me."
- **With another person:** hand them this page and your answers. They should be able to pick up exactly where you are.

The baton does the organizing. You keep the decisions.

## Questions
1. What is this record about, in one line?
2. What is the reference or name that ties every note to it?
3. What happened, in order, with dates?
4. What was decided, by whom, and when?
5. Where does each piece of evidence live?

## Method
1. One record per problem. Give it a reference.
2. Write entries in order. Date every one.
3. Each entry: what happened, the evidence, and its status word.
4. Never erase. If something was wrong, add the correction below it.
5. Keep it in a plain format you will still be able to open in ten years: paper, Markdown, or JSON.

## Source discipline
- Every claim gets a mark: **KNOWN** (a record or test shows it), **ASSUMED** (believed, not shown), **UNKNOWN** (nobody knows yet).
- A record beats a memory. A memory beats a guess. Say which one you are using.
- Write down where each source lives, so someone else can go look.

## Conflict discipline
- When two sources disagree, write both down side by side. Do not quietly pick one.
- The newer, more direct record usually wins, but say that you chose and why.
- If the conflict changes what happens next, it goes to a human gate.

## Human decision gates
- What goes in the record about other people. Their information is theirs.
- Who else may read it.

## Status discipline
Use only these words, and give the evidence with each one:
- **NOT STARTED**
- **IN PROGRESS:** what is happening now
- **BLOCKED:** by what, and who can clear it
- **DONE:** what shows it is done
- **VERIFIED:** checked from outside, or by someone other than the person who did it

Done is not verified. A command that ran is not a result.

**Done when: a stranger could read it cold and know where things stand.**

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