# The `.loom` directory

**A repository that uses loom keeps everything in `.loom/` at its root.**

> **Type is determined by location.** *The directory a file is in says what it
> is.* **So frontmatter carries almost nothing, and often nothing at all.**

**A stream is a file. A collection of things with identity is a directory.** *A
log is appended to and no entry is ever addressed; a thing that is referred to
individually gets its own file.*

**Everything not recognised is shown rather than rejected.** *These files are
edited by hand and by agents, constantly, and that is supported. A reader that
fails on an unfamiliar directory is wrong.*

## What is fixed

**Only `.loom/` itself, and that a directory means a kind.** *Which kinds exist
is not fixed here — conventions built on this one declare their own, and a
repository has only the ones it uses.*

**Nothing outside `.loom/` is loom's business.**