Fileman | Review-first file organization docs

Fileman Brand Positioning

This note freezes the current naming baseline for the public docs, README, WebUI, and agent-facing surfaces.

Core Positioning

• Primary brand: Fileman
• Repository and CLI/runtime identity: fileman
• Current product promise: review-first, AI-assisted, dry-run before execute, rollback-ready, local-first

Short product sentence:

Fileman is a review-first local file organizer and workbench. AI helps draft the plan, but deterministic execution still waits for human review.

Current Stable Surface Names

These names can appear in README, docs, and WebUI today because they describe real current surfaces:

• Fileman Review: the review queue and manifest-approval layer before execution
• Fileman Rules: the rule authoring and rule-draft workflow
• Fileman Inbox: the scan and intake surface for incoming batches and watch sources
• Fileman Copilot v1: the current review-only guidance surface
• Fileman MCP v1: the current stdio/local-first extension surface for agents and developers

Reserved Future Surface Names

These names are still roadmap vocabulary only. They should not be written as shipped features today:

• Fileman Copilot beyond the current review-only v1 scope
• Rule from Examples beyond the current draft-seeding workflow
• any future remote or hosted form of Fileman MCP

Allowed phrasing:

• current review-only surface
• future roadmap language
• not part of the current primary product promise

Disallowed phrasing:

• available now
• included in the current app
• Fileman MCP is a hosted automation platform
• Fileman already auto-organizes files through agents

What Fileman Is

• a local-first workflow
• a review-first organizer and workbench
• an AI-assisted planning surface
• a deterministic apply/rollback execution system

What Fileman Is Not

• not a hosted SaaS
• not a multi-user cloud organizer
• not an AI-autonomous organizer that mutates files without review
• not a generic agent platform whose main story is MCP before the review workflow exists
• not a direct file-mutation server for agents

Copy Guardrails

• Prefer AI-assisted over AI-powered when the sentence could imply autonomy.
• Prefer Apply approved changes or dry-run before execute over marketing verbs that hide the review boundary.
• Keep Fileman as the outward-facing brand, but keep fileman for repo, CLI, package, and runtime references.
• When in doubt, describe the current product as a workbench or workspace, not a cloud service.

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