Tradecraft
📡 Tradecraft
Objective
An exquisite filtering email client — exquisite because it is simple: the
filing is the filtering, done once at write time, and the markdown store is
the database. Tradecraft adds almost no UI; it borrows Bastion's Hero editor,
viewer, LHSB keybindings, and the universal save→exit gesture.
It opens on a piece bigger than email: the n new-content verb. n in LHSB
is Bastion's context-aware create gesture — it stamps the right template for
where you are, and on save runs that template's dispatch. Email compose is its
first consumer (dispatch = send); the same verb makes an NPC in a faction folder
(dispatch = none) or a /Thought Police post (dispatch = publish to the
droplet). So Tradecraft's compose is one binding of a general primitive — which
is why it's the milestone's first issue.
The mail store inverts a normal client. Instead of one opaque mailbox you search
at read time, every email is its own markdown note, pre-sorted into a
tier/date bu
