Affiliate: template

Affiliate Workflow (Template)

Workflow version: AFF-2026-08-24.01

Last updated: 2026-08-24

Versioning rule: Increment the final two-digit revision for each substantive workflow change. Use a new date when the workflow is revised on a later date. Cosmetic-only edits may be recorded without incrementing the revision.

• Purpose: Use this workflow for an MLB–MiLB affiliation by season, represented by an Affiliation: Team - YEAR thought.

• 1. Verify the affiliation thought
  • Confirm the thought is named Affiliation: MLB Team - YEAR.
  • Set its thought type to the existing .02 Affiliation type. Do not create a duplicate type.
  • Preserve its existing parent relationships, such as a Teams by Affiliate YEAR thought.

• 2. Format the affiliation note
  • Keep the introductory text, season summary, and organization-leaders URL.
  • Convert the affiliate list into a table with four columns and no heading text:
    • League/class/level
    • Team thought name in the form TeamName - YEAR
    • W-L record
    • Statistics URL
  • Remove the Roster column and its links.
  • Add the applicable year to each team name when it is missing.

• 3. Create internal text links
  • For every TeamName - YEAR in the table, search for the exact existing thought.
  • If an exact thought is not found, ask for permission before creating anything.
  • If the user supplies an existing thought ID, verify the ID/name and use it; never create a replacement thought without permission.
  • Replace each plain team name in the table with an internal brain:// text link to the matching thought.

• 4. Link the team thoughts in the graph
  • Link every matching TeamName - YEAR thought as a child of Affiliation: MLB Team - YEAR.
  • Do not create duplicate links; check whether a link already exists first.
  • Keep the link direction explicit: the affiliation thought is the parent, and each team-season thought is its child.

• 5. Attach Statistics URLs
  • For each child team-season thought, use the Statistics URL from the table's last column.
  • Check existing attachments first.
  • Attach the URL only when the matching URL is not already attached; do not duplicate existing attachments.
  • Use the URL's descriptive Statistics title when attaching it.

• 6. Final verification
  • Confirm all team names in the table are internal links.
  • Confirm all team-season thoughts are children of the affiliation thought.
  • Confirm each child has its matching Statistics URL attached.
  • Report any missing thoughts or URLs and pause for permission where required.

Example

Affiliation: Cleveland Indians - 1953 → child team-season thoughts:

• Indianapolis Indians - 1953
• Reading Indians - 1953
• Spartanburg Peaches - 1953
• Fargo-Moorhead Twins - 1953
• Sherbrooke Indians - 1953
• Daytona Beach Islanders - 1953
• Green Bay Bluejays - 1953

Relationship pattern: Affiliation: MLB Team - YEAR parent → TeamName - YEAR child.

Internal brain-link rule (global)

• Preserve existing working internal brain:// links exactly.
• Never manually construct, guess, edit, or infer a brain:// URL.
• For new internal links, call TheBrain’s thought-link URL generator for the exact thought and copy the returned URL exactly.
• If generation fails, leave the item plain text and report it; do not substitute another format.

Template provenance — private

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• Template: Affiliate (template)
• Template version: Affiliate-2026-08-13.01
• App version: 15.0.612.0
• Platform: Desktop
• Update channel: Alpha
• Applied: 2026-08-13
• Purpose: Applied the private provenance note to the Affiliate template.
• Version-specific assumptions: None recorded.