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when-and-why-to-read: When you want a worked end-to-end composition of crouter primitives — not what one command does but how several combine into a real standing system — open this dir so you can reuse a proven shape instead of re-deriving how the primitives fit or relying on unverified OS assumptions.
short-form: Worked examples composing crouter primitives into complete systems (like pi's examples/ dir). Currently — the iMessage assistant node.
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# internal/examples/ — worked compositions of crouter primitives

The other internal/ docs explain the primitives one at a time; this dir shows them composed into complete, buildable systems — the crtr analogue of pi's `examples/` directory. Each example is grounded: its OS-level mechanics and command contracts were verified before being written down.

- **imessage-assistant** — an OpenClaw-style always-on assistant: resident root node with its own dir and persona, woken event-style by a launchd watcher via `node message send`, reading `chat.db` (with the attributedBody gotcha), replying via osascript, remembering people through project-scope memory.

Add an example here when a composition was non-obvious enough that the next builder shouldn't have to re-derive it.