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title: Installable Feature Packs
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# Installable Feature Packs

Feature Packs turn Basalt Notes into a tailored knowledge system for your specific domain or job. A Feature Pack is an installable, versioned configuration bundle that adds templates, Quarries, Pulse lenses, and Forge action recipes without locking you into proprietary formats.

## Browsing & Previewing Packs

1. Navigate to the **Pack Library** (`/packs`) from the main menu.
2. Browse curated packs tailored for different roles:
   - **Personal Knowledge System**: Folder structure, evergreen templates, link-health audits, and review lenses.
   - **Everything Inbox**: Capture destinations, inbox-processing Quarries, document templates, and weekly review flows.
   - **Consultant Engagement**: Client vault layout, discovery templates, decision registers, and deliverable briefs.
   - **Product Decision Log**: ADR/product templates, risk Quarries, supersession review, and release briefs.
   - **Meeting Memory**: Agenda templates, transcript destinations, commitment tracking, and follow-up recipes.
   - **Research Dossier**: Source collection, research question views, citation verification, and evidence briefs.
   - **Developer Agent Workspace**: API/MCP setups, agent source boundaries, and run view templates.
3. Click **Preview Pack** to inspect folders, templates, saved views, and workflows before installing.

## Safe, Zero-Data-Loss Installation

- **Idempotent Installation**: Installing a pack creates necessary folder structures, templates, and configurations cleanly.
- **No Overwriting**: Installation never overwrites existing user notes. Path conflicts generate proposed alternative filenames.
- **Local Tracking**: Installed pack manifests and versions are persisted locally (`{ packId, installedVersion, installedAt }`).

## Updating and Uninstalling Packs

- **Updating**: Upgrading a pack displays a migration preview preserving all your user-authored modifications.
- **Uninstalling**: Removing a pack cleans up pack-owned configuration (lenses, saved view filters), while all your authored notes and content remain safely in your vault.