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@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ Worth stealing even if we never run it:
 - **`bootstrap`** seeds pages from `git log`, README, `docs/`, module headers.
   The thing we would want when adding a new machine or repo.
 
+**His position, stated up front: not a fan of MCP, and never was.** So this is a
+source of ideas, not a thing to adopt. Do not open tomorrow by proposing we
+install it. Harvest the taxonomy and the concepts, build our own on plain files.
+
 The real decision: it is a **running service** (daemon, SQLite, FTS5,
 embeddings, MCP, hooks). Ours is plain files and symlinks, readable with `cat`,
 and works when nothing is installed. That simplicity is a feature, especially