---
type: GlossaryTerm
id: https://w3id.org/ktl/knowledge/glossary/work-list
title: Work list
description: "What `knowledge-report.sh worklist` prints for ktl-librarian before each refresh, from frontmatter and git, in paths and dates and nobody's words: the concepts whose sources moved since they were derived or last checked, the notes a person left and the librarian's own open questions. It also counts the reader feedback that waits."
definition: The list `knowledge-report.sh worklist` computes from frontmatter and git, which ktl-librarian starts every refresh from.
genre: reference
resource: skills/ktl-librarian/SKILL.md
sources:
  - resource: skills/ktl-librarian/SKILL.md
  - resource: docs/for-the-curious.md
relatedTo:
  - https://w3id.org/ktl/knowledge/playbooks/ktl-librarian-skill
  - https://w3id.org/ktl/knowledge/glossary/librarian
generated:
  by: process:ktl-librarian
  at: "2026-10-19T20:01:11Z"
status: draft
verified:
  - by: process:ktl-librarian
    at: "2026-10-29T00:48:33Z"
---

# Overview

ktl-librarian starts every refresh from the **work list**, which `bash .lokf/scripts/knowledge-report.sh worklist` prints. A program has already found which concepts' sources moved since they were derived or last checked, which notes a person left, and which of those a later confirmation answered. It counts the reader entries that wait and names the concepts readers keep asking about, in paths and dates and nobody's words.

A source moved when its last commit comes after the commit that recorded the [librarian](librarian.md)'s stamp or the latest check, so history orders the two. `docs/for-the-curious.md` says a run is bounded: the librarian starts from the work list, which lists the concepts whose sources moved since their last stamp, ordered by history and never by a clock. The same script computes each trust label from the frontmatter on every read, for the docent's answers, the curator's report and the librarian's work list (`docs/for-the-curious.md`).