To advance your macro mission, you must first define your immediate strategic and tactical focus, and then bring the necessary environmental components into physical existence so your MAILBOX_ROUTER has something to operate on. Execute the following commands in sequence to align your mission state and instantiate the inbox: /mission sub Monitor a local directory for incoming AST-MD envelopes /mission micro Instantiate the inbox directory concept /concept INBOX_DIRECTORY /mint INBOX_DIRECTORY Once executed, your state machine will have both the router and the target directory physically tracked in its inventory, and your /tick payload will reflect a highly focused tactical state. After you update the state, we can write the actual asynchronous Node.js file-watcher logic that will run alongside your REPL loop.