Drafted — how to use it

Prime · Build · Compound

Drafted gives your AI agent three durable primitives — a knowledge wiki, reusable skills, and a shared project surface. This is the loop that makes every session leave the next one smarter. You bookend the session — Prime to start, Compound to close — and Drafted steers your agent through the work in between.

Works everywhere Drafted is installed — the same 8 commands + drafted skill ship in the desktop plugin, the web / Cowork connector, and installer-configured agents.

What using Drafted looks like

Slash commands are shortcuts you type into your AI agent's chat. Start a message with / and the agent runs a ready-made Drafted workflow — you don't have to spell out every step. Type / on its own to see the list. Here's a session in progress:

Your AI agent
/create-project a landing page for the Q3 launch
On it — setting up a project and drafting on your surface.
draftedwiki · search"Q3 launch messaging"✓ 4 pages
draftedproject · create"Q3 Launch — Landing"
draftedframe · writecopy/hero-options.md
draftedframe · writedesigns/landing-v1.html
Done — drafted 3 frames on your Q3 Launch surface, grounded in your existing messaging. View in Drafted →
/  Drafted commands
/create-projectNew project or from a template
/ingestPull knowledge into the wiki
/create-skillAuthor a reusable procedure
/

The loop, in three beats

You drive the bookends; the system holds the middle.

Prime · start

Feed & set up

You draw value in and seed the work: onboard the harness, ingest knowledge, author a skill, set up the project. These are commands.

Build · the work

Drafted steers your agent

The agent produces — and Drafted keeps it on track automatically: drawing on what your org knows, your saved methods, and each project's rules. No command needed.

Compound · end

Deposit what you learned

You leave the harness stronger: improve the store you touched, then extract everything new. These are commands.

The command matrix

Each primitive has a create command (Prime) and an improve command (Compound). Two over-arching commands span all three: /onboard-drafted opens a session, /extract closes it. The middle column is what Drafted handles for you — automatically.

Primitive Prime — you start command Build — Drafted steers automatic Compound — you close command
All threesession start /onboard-draftedOrient to the loop and bootstrap the harness — seed the wiki, starter skills, and a first project.
Knowledgewiki /ingestCapture knowledge from a producible, scour docs, or interrogate you for what's in your head. Drafted

Drafted steers your agent for better results — automatically. It draws on what your org already knows, applies the methods you've saved, and follows each project's rules. Every time, without being asked.

/improve-wikiFix stale, wrong, or fragmented knowledge.
Proceduresskills /create-skillAuthor a proper, reusable procedure. /improve-skillFix an inefficiency you noticed while working.
Surfaceprojects /create-projectStart a new project or build from a template. /improve-project-harnessTurn a correction you made into a standing rule, so Drafted steers the agent the same way next time.
All threesession end /extractPick where each new thing lands — knowledge → wiki, procedure → skill, structure → template.

The eight commands

Type them in your agent. Two bookends, plus a create + improve for each primitive.

/onboard-draftedOrient + bootstrap the harness
/extractClose the loop — file new knowledge, skills, structure
/ingestPull knowledge into the wiki
/improve-wikiFix or sharpen knowledge
/create-skillAuthor a reusable procedure
/improve-skillRefine a procedure
/create-projectNew project or from a template
/improve-project-harnessMake a correction a standing rule

Why it compounds

The loop closes. /onboard-drafted bootstraps the harness; you Prime at the start of a session and Compound at the end, while Drafted steers the middle so the agent always builds on what already exists. /improve-project-harness turns a correction you made once into a standing rule Drafted applies every time after — so the agent keeps getting better at your work. What you deposit at the end of one session steers the next, so the harness tightens every pass. More knowledge = less searching · better skills = a stabler process · reusable projects + anchors = velocity with accuracy.
New here? You don't have to memorize the commands. Just talk to your agent — "research this and save what matters", "turn that into a skill", "set up a project for the launch" — the drafted skill teaches it to reach for the right primitive. The commands above are the explicit shortcuts when you want to drive the loop yourself.
Install Drafted →