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 # Clawdie ISO Agent Guidelines
 
+## Project Identity
+
+**clawdie-iso** builds the operator USB image — a live FreeBSD 15 XFCE
+environment that serves two roles:
+- **Development surface** for Colibri: build, validate, and iterate on the
+  control plane from a bootable USB without touching the host OS.
+- **Installer** for the **Clawdie service**: deploys Colibri as an rc.d
+  service on bare FreeBSD hardware (ZFS RAID1 mirror, PostgreSQL + pgvector,
+  bhyve VMs, Bastille jails).
+
+The USB is the swiss-army knife — the bare-metal install is the production
+target.
+
 ## Agent Identity and Current Role Split
 
 The XFCE operator USB work now uses a git-coordinated split. Agents may review