---
feature_id: FTR-09
title: Startup Display & Reminder Mode
category: Continuity
optional: false
depends_on: none
registry_refs: [2.13, 5.04, 5.27]
---

# Startup Display & Reminder Mode

## What this is
The opening dashboard the agent shows at the start of every conversation while Startup Reminder Mode is ON — working directory, drop folder, project cache status, CLAUDE.md presence, active trackers, key documents, seeded items, active flags, brand status, and connectors. A single glance tells the user exactly where the project stands. Toggleable on/off.

## Assess first
- Read `admin\AGENT_INSTRUCTIONS.md` for the current Startup Reminder Mode setting (ON/OFF). Default is ON.
- Confirm the values the display pulls from are available: canonical path, drop path, project cache manifest, CLAUDE.md, trackers, key documents, brand standards, connectors. Blank/None is acceptable where a feature isn't installed yet.

## Ask, only if needed
Nothing to ask — proceed directly to Write. Default the mode to ON unless the user has previously asked for it OFF.

## Write
Add this section to `admin\AGENT_INSTRUCTIONS.md`:

```
◆ STARTUP DISPLAY
(Runs at conversation open while Startup Reminder Mode is ON)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  [PROJECT TITLE]                      [[ProjectCode]]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Working Directory:  [path]
  Drop:               [path\#drop]
  Project Cache:      [N files · Last refresh: date or "Not yet run"]
  CLAUDE.md:          [Present / Missing]
  Active Trackers:    [list or "None"]
  Key Documents:      [list with status]
  Seeded Items:       [count or "None"]
  Active Flags:       [count or "None"]
  Brand Standards:    [status]
  Connectors:         [active list]
  ─────────────────────────────────────────────
  Ready. What are we working on today?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Say "disable startup reminder" to turn this off.
Say "run an audit" for a full project health check.

◆ STARTUP REMINDER MODE

Current setting: ON
"disable startup reminder" -> turns off the opening display
"enable startup reminder"  -> restores it
Nothing else changes.
```

## Confirm
Confirm: your startup display is set (Reminder Mode ON) — every new conversation opens with a project snapshot. Say "disable startup reminder" anytime to turn it off. Want to install another, or is that everything for now?