How to open it, how to save your work, and the two-minute setup worth doing.
Open Codex and start a new chat. Right above the chat box, pick Choose project, then Frank's Vault. That is the whole ritual.
Every chat starts in Frank's Vault. A chat started in another project, or in ChatGPT, does its work outside the vault, and the vault never learns from it. If that already happened, bring it in.
To browse it with your eyes instead, open the same folder in Obsidian. Both look at the same files, so nothing gets out of sync.
When a chat opens in Frank's Vault, it pulls the latest copy from GitHub. After each reply, it backs your work up. You do not have to remember either one.
Open a new chat in Frank's Vault and type this:
/sync-ghIf Codex asks whether to trust or allow this vault's hooks, say yes. That yes is the auto-save. After that, nothing to do.
When you finish something real, /wrap is still worth saying. It files anything loose and names the save so you can find it later.
If a chat ever tells you some files were not backed up, say yes to back them up. If you are unsure whether it worked, ask it plainly: "did that actually push to GitHub?"
Open the vault folder in Finder. Find 00-Inbox. Drag it into your Finder sidebar.
Now dropping a document into your AI system is the same gesture as dropping it anywhere else. Then whenever you feel like it, say "process my inbox" and it converts everything, links the people it finds, and files it. Originals go to 00-Inbox/_processed/ and are never deleted for you.
A private GitHub repository that only you and Andy can see. It is not public, not indexed, and not searchable.
60-Private/ never reaches it. That is enforced at the file level, not by anyone remembering.
You already accepted the access invite, so nothing is pending on your side.
It will listen. You are not behind, and you do not have to know what you are doing yet.