daily-reflection

Workflow: Daily Reflection

When to use

This skill is triggered automatically at 18:00 by the harness scheduler (metadata.harness-schedule: 0 18 * * *). Invoke it manually when:

• The user asks to synthesize or summarize today's work.
• The user asks what was accomplished, learned, or left open.
• You want to extract rule candidates from recent journals after a significant session.

Available scripts

• scripts/synthesize.sh [--date YYYY-MM-DD] [--harness-dir <path>] — Run the daily journal synthesis for the given date (default: today). Returns structured JSON with journal_path, sessions_processed, and patterns_detected.
• scripts/propose-rules.sh [--harness-dir <path>] — Analyze recent journals and propose instinct/rule candidates. Returns JSON with a list of candidates and their source reasoning.

Workflow

1. Synthesize: Run scripts/synthesize.sh (optionally with --date). On status: ok, the journal file is at result.journal_path.
2. Propose rules: Run scripts/propose-rules.sh to extract rule candidates from the new (and recent) journal entries.
3. Review: Present the journal summary and rule candidates to the user for review before any rule is promoted to an instinct.

Gotchas

• Both scripts require a working harness binary on PATH (or --harness-dir pointing to a valid harness directory).
• synthesize.sh is idempotent by default — re-running on the same date overwrites the existing journal entry. Pass --no-force if you want to preserve an existing entry.
• propose-rules.sh reads the last 7 days of journal entries. On a fresh harness with fewer than 7 days of history the output will be sparse — this is expected.

Failure modes

• NO_SESSIONS — No session files found for the requested date. Nothing to synthesize. Inform the user and exit.
• JOURNAL_COMMAND_FAILED — The underlying harness journal command returned a non-zero exit code. The error details are in error.message. Check that Ollama is running and the configured model is available.
• LEARN_COMMAND_FAILED — The harness learn command failed. See error.message. Same checks as above.
• INVALID_DATE — The --date argument does not match YYYY-MM-DD. Fix the format and retry.