meditate

Files (3)

• SKILL.md
• agent-prompts.md · references/
• snapshot.sh · scripts/

SKILL.md (first lines)

# Meditate

## Autonomous Session Mode

When running non-interactively:

- Apply all high-confidence changes autonomously. For ambiguous or risky changes (brain file deletions, principle rewrites), file a todo instead.
- Commit only when the user authorizes it; follow the repository commit workflow.

**Quality bar:** A note earns its place by being **high-signal** (The agent would reliably get this wrong without it), **high-frequency** (comes up in most sessions or most tasks of a type), or **high-impact** (getting it wrong causes significant damage or wasted work). Everything else is noise. A lean, precise brain outperforms a comprehensive but bloated one.

## Process

Track progress with the available planning tools or a short checklist.

### 1. Build snapshots

```bash
sh <skill-path>/scripts/snapshot.sh brain/ /tmp/brain-snapshot.md
sh <skill-path>/scripts/snapshot.sh .agents/skills/ /tmp/skills-snapshot.md
```

Files are delimited with `=== path/to/file.md ===` headers.

### 2. Auditor (blocking - its report feeds step 3)

Use an available general analysis subagent, or perform a bounded local review when delegation is unavailable. See `references/agent-prompts.md § Auditor` for the full prompt spec. Inputs: brain snapshot, auto-memory path, AGENTS.md path.

Audits brain notes, AGENTS.md, and auto-memory for staleness, redundancy, low-value content, verbosity, and orphans. Returns a categorized report.

**Early-exit gate:** If the auditor finds fewer than 3 actionable items, skip step 3 and go directly to step 4.

### 3. Reviewer (after auditor completes)

Use one available general analysis subagent, or continue locally when delegation is unavailable. See `references/agent-prompts.md § Reviewer` for the full prompt spec. Inputs: brain snapshot, skills snapshot, auditor report, `brain/principles.md`.

Combines three concerns in a single pass:

- **Synthesis**: Proposes missing Markdown links, flags principle tensions, suggests clarifications.
- **Distillation**: Identifies recurring patterns that reveal unstated principles. New principles must be (1) independent, (2) evidenced by 2+ notes, (3) actionable.
- **Skill review**: Cross-references skills against brain principles. Finds contradictions, missed structural enforcement, redundant instructions. Audits description frontmatters for context bloat.

### 4. Review reports

Present the user with a consolidated summary. See `references/agent-prompts.md § Report Template` for the format.

### 5. Route skill-specific learnings

Check all reports for findings that belong in skill files, not `brain/`. Update the skill's SKILL.md or references/ directly. Read the skill first to avoid duplication.

### 6. Apply changes

Apply all changes directly. The user reviews the diff.

- **Outdated notes**: Update or delete
- **Redundant notes**: Merge into the stronger note, delete the weaker
- **Low-value notes**: Delete
- **Verbose notes**: Condense in place
- **New connections**: Add file-relative Markdown links
- **Tensions**: Reword to clarify boundaries
- **New principles**: Only from the distillation section, only if genuinely independent. Write brain files and update `brain/principles.md`
- **Merge principles**: Look for principles that are subsets or specific applications of each other - merge the narrower into the broader and pick a name that captures the combined insight
- **Bloated skill descriptions**: Tighten frontmatter descriptions - cut what the agent can infer, keep only distinctive triggers and purpose
- **AGENTS.md issues**: Rewrite or delete
- **Stale memories**: Delete or rewrite

### 7. Housekeep

Maintain curated navigation through the brain skill; let hooks reconcile the root inventory.

## Summary

```
## Meditate Summary
- Pruned: [N notes deleted, M condensed, K merged]
- Extracted: [N new principles, with one-line + evidence count each]
- Skill review: [N findings, M applied]
- Housekeep: [state files cleaned]
```

From japurcell/skills, MIT.

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