Lythoskill project scribe weekly

Project Scribe — Weekly

Distill, don't replay. The core thread matters; the 17 commits that touched it don't.

Value Boundary

Weekly is a memory offloading mechanism, not a menu listing.

Direct queries (skip these)	Scribe-weekly must synthesize
git log --since="7 days ago"	The one decision that mattered most
ls daily/2026-05-*	Why the planned vs actual divergence happened
cat cortex/INDEX.md	Which emergent threads earned attention
bunx @lythos/project-cortex list	What pattern is hardening into a project trait

If the next agent can find it via ls daily/, git log, or cortex index — don't replicate it. Link to it.

Why this matters: A future agent reading a weekly cold (no daily access) should get the compressed representation of the week's cognitive work — the pattern, not the commits. Without this, every agent must reconstruct the narrative from 6 daily files + 29 commits + 10 ADRs. Weekly offloads that reconstruction cost once, permanently.

Weekly Prep (like cortex probe — gather before you write)

Do NOT start writing from memory. Run prep first. This is the write-side counterpart to onboarding's read-side: just as onboarding reads daily → verifies git → presents summary, weekly prep gathers all sources → surfaces anomalies → ranks importance.

Step 1: Gather (deterministic)

# ISO week alignment check — confirm what week we're in and what span to cover
python3 -c "import datetime; d = datetime.date.today(); iso = d.isocalendar(); \
  mon = d - datetime.timedelta(days=d.weekday()); \
  sun = mon + datetime.timedelta(days=6); \
  print(f'Today: {d} ({d.strftime(\"%A\")}) — ISO W{iso.week}'); \
  print(f'Standard span: {mon}_to_{sun}')"

# Daily surface — which days had activity?
ls daily/*.md | sort | tail -7

# Git surface — what actually landed?
git log --since="7 days ago" --oneline

# Cortex surface — what state changed?
bunx @lythos/[email protected] probe
bunx @lythos/[email protected] stats

# ADR surface — what decisions were accepted this period?
ls -lt cortex/adr/02-accepted/ | head -15

# Delta from last weekly — what's new since the last snapshot?
ls weekly/ | sort | tail -1

Step 2: Surface Anomalies

Scan the gathered data for:

• Superseded decisions: later ADR that contradicts an earlier one (e.g., combo redefinition May 6 superseded May 1 section semantics)
• Renamed/removed commands: CLI surface changed (e.g., agent-run → single, deck sync → deck to-symlink)
• Reversed priorities: a task/epic that was priority_at_start last week but never appeared in this week's dailies
• Silent gaps: days with no daily file but git shows commits (someone committed outside agent session)
• Missing ADRs: significant code/architecture change in git log with no corresponding ADR accepted in the same window. A rename with 30+ commits and no ADR is a red flag.

Step 3: Importance Ranking (simulated annealing)

1. High temperature: dump every event you can recall. Don't filter. Include everything.
2. Cool: group related events into clusters (e.g., "path convention fixes" = 5 commits, 2 ADRs, 1 ZK sweep)
3. Rank clusters by downstream confusion cost: "if a future agent missed this cluster, how wrong would their decisions be?"
4. Freeze: top 1-2 clusters → core_thread. Clusters that involve superseded docs → docs_now_stale.

Test: can you identify the single most important decision of the week? If the combo redefinition (May 6) would be invisible in your weekly, you didn't rank correctly.

Step 4: Prep Report (show to user before writing)

Present a 5-line summary:

📊 Weekly Prep — 2026-W22
📄 Dailies: 2026-05-21, 2026-05-28 (gap May 22-27)
🔀 ADRs: 3 proposed, 0 accepted this period
⚠️  Anomalies: combo redefinition (May 6) not captured in any weekly
💡 Top cluster: site documentation debt cleanup (P0 → done)
📋 docs_now_stale candidates: ADR-20260501160000000, external-skill-governance-bridge.md

User confirms → proceed to write. User flags missing items → add to cluster list.

When to Run

• User explicitly asks for weekly synthesis
• End of week (typically Sunday) for retrospective
• Friday afternoon: if the week has already produced substantial work and user wants to capture it before weekend
• Sunday night: if weekend work continued the week's thread — append to existing weekly, don't create new
• Monday: if weekend was quiet and weekly wasn't written yet
• Before epic planning to understand what unlocked/paused
• Do NOT auto-schedule — the player decides timing

Sunday Check (agent-initiated suggestion)

If today is Sunday and you observe any of these signals during session close:

• Epic/task cleanup feeling ("this phase feels done")
• Goal 阶段性达到 (milestone completed, tests pass, push to remote)
• User says "LGTM", "就这样", "先到这里" on a Sunday

Suggest to user: "今天周日，这周的工作感觉到了一个自然的收束点。要不要沉淀一下 weekly，把这周的模式记录下来？"

User says yes → run weekly prep. User says no or ignores → write daily scribe as usual, don't push.

Weekly Writing Modes

Mode	When	Action
Fresh	No weekly exists for current week	Write new weekly with standard period
Append	Weekly already exists, weekend had more work	Append to existing weekly, update core_thread if needed
Catch-up	Gap week(s) detected	Write "no active work" weekly for gap, then current week

Daily scribe continues regardless. Weekly does not replace daily; they are different abstraction layers.

Inputs (collect before writing)

# 1. Daily files from the past 7 days
ls daily/*.md | sort | tail -7

# 2. Git activity (for reference, not replay)
git log --since="7 days ago" --oneline

# 3. Current cortex state
bunx @lythos/[email protected] index
bunx @lythos/[email protected] stats

# Cortex uses timestamp IDs (ADR-yyyyMMddHHmmssSSS, TASK-...,
# EPIC-...). This lets you grep by date range:
#   ls cortex/adr/02-accepted/ | grep '^ADR-2026051'
# Use this when reconstructing a missing weekly from ground truth.

# 4. Session recall — ask yourself:
#    - What was the priority at week start?
#    - What actually got done vs paused?
#    - What emerged mid-week that wasn't planned?
#    - What pattern repeated across multiple days?

Output: weekly/YYYY-Wxx.md

Frontmatter (machine-readable; future agents read this first)

---
period: 2026-05-01_to_2026-05-07
core_thread: "one-line synthesis of the week's unifying theme"
priority_at_start:
  - "what was planned"
priority_at_end:
  - "what actually became priority"
quests_advanced:
  - EPIC-xxx: epic name (status)
quests_unlocked:
  - "new task or epic that became actionable"
quests_paused:
  - "task or epic that was deferred"
parked_threads:
  - "noted but not pursued"
decisions_accepted:
  - ADR-xxx: decision title
retro_cells:
  planned_done: "what was planned and completed"
  planned_paused: "what was planned but didn't happen (and why)"
  emergent_done: "what emerged and earned attention"
  emergent_paused: "what emerged but was parked"
project_lesson_candidates:
  - "pattern that might become a wiki entry if it repeats"
references:
  daily: ["daily/2026-05-01.md", "daily/2026-05-02.md", ...]
  cortex_index: cortex/INDEX.md
---

Body (~200-300 words, NOT a replay)

1. TL;DR (1 paragraph): core thread + the one decision that mattered most.
2. 4-Quadrant Retro (table): planned vs emergent × done vs paused.
3. Quest DAG: ASCII or Mermaid diagram of epic/task flow.
4. Project Lesson Candidates: bullets for patterns worth crystallizing.
5. Reference Pointers: links to daily files and indexes. Don't replicate.

The 4-Quadrant Retrospective

Compare intended priorities against actual execution:

	Done	Paused / Dropped
Planned (priority at start)	✅ Validated priorities — called right	⚠️ Priority correction — why did it slip?
Emergent (surfaced mid-week)	🌱 What proved deserving of attention	📋 Noted-but-parked threads

Rule of thumb: One concise line per cell explaining what happened and why. Not a task list.

Salience Filter

"太细节的小事不会在 weekly 里。特别强烈的印象会在。"

Include	Exclude
Decisions that changed direction	Every commit message
Patterns across multiple days	Single-day bugs already fixed
Unblocked epics or tasks	Routine maintenance
Surprising findings from E2E	Formatting changes, refactors
Project traits worth documenting	Tool version bumps

Test: If a future agent reading this weekly cold (no daily access) would mistake a detail for a non-event, it doesn't belong.

Verify Companion

Before relying on a weekly for planning, spot-check its claims against ground truth:

# Does the recorded epic/task status match reality?
bunx @lythos/[email protected] probe

# Does the git activity match the claimed period?
git log --since="2026-05-01" --until="2026-05-07" --oneline

# Do the referenced daily files exist?
ls daily/2026-05-*.md

Wrong facts in weekly = disaster for next agent. The agent owns this verification — there is no validate-weekly CLI; weekly is a pure skill that produces a doc, the agent uses cortex probe + git log + daily ls to reality-check what it just wrote.

Decision Hygiene (agent behavior)

Do not present fake options. When asking user for next step, every option must be a real choice with different consequences. Do not include:

• Options that transfer cost to future sessions (e.g., "end session and let next agent handle it")
• Options that are obviously inferior (e.g., "do nothing" when action is clearly needed)
• Options that defer without reason (e.g., "wait" without explaining what we're waiting for)

Why: Fake options waste user attention. They feel like marketing tricks — psychological anchors designed to make one option look good by contrast. Respect user time by offering genuine trade-offs or making the recommendation directly.

Pattern: If you know what should happen, say so. If you need user input, offer 2-3 real alternatives with consequence briefs. If there's no real choice, don't ask.

Examples:

• ❌ "Should I A) verify now B) end session C) do nothing" — C is fake
• ✅ "I recommend verifying now — cost is 1 minute, benefit is catching skill drift before next session. Confirm?"
• ✅ "Two paths: A) quick scan (5 min, surface only) B) deep audit (30 min, full checklist). Which fits your time?"

Scenarios & Packages (v0.1 — explore with user)

Weekly writing is not a rigid procedure. It's a scenario-driven, package-based exploration between agent and user. Like an ADV game: there are branches, but each branch has a default skeleton.

Scene A: Weekly Writing

Trigger: User says "写 weekly" / "这周总结一下" / end-of-week feeling

Package	When	Skeleton	Optional Add-ons
A1: Fresh	No weekly for current ISO week	Standard ISO period + full prep	ADR timeline, daily cross-reference
A2: Append	Weekly exists, work continued	Extend period, update core_thread	Merge cross-week git activity
A3: Catch-up	Gap detected	Fill gap with "no active work" first, then write current	Historical drift annotation

Agent choice: Run ls weekly/*.md | sort | tail -3 to detect mode. Recommend package to user. User confirms or overrides.

Scene B: User Says "消债" / "扫一下" / "还债"

Trigger: User explicitly asks for cleanup / audit / sweep

Package	When	Skeleton	Optional Add-ons
B1: Quick Scan (5 min)	User wants overview	Weekly chain + cortex probe	Gap report only
B2: Deep Audit (30 min)	User wants thorough check	Full 23-item reference checklist	User selects scope
B3: Targeted	User names specific debt	Agent drills from weekly chain into named area	Cross-reference ADR/task

Agent choice: Ask user "quick scan or deep?" Default to B1 if user just says "消债" without qualifier.

Scene C: Session Close (Scribe)

Trigger: User says "LGTM" / "先到这里" / session ending

Package	When	Skeleton	Optional Add-ons
C1: Standard Handoff (default)	No weekly suspicion	Write daily, no eager weekly check	—
C2: Weekly Suspicion	User mentions cross-week work / weekly conflict	Check weekly chain before scribe	Suggest append if needed

Agent choice: Default C1. Switch to C2 only if session content clearly spans weeks or user explicitly mentions weekly.

Scene D: Release Prep

Trigger: User says "release" / "ship it" / version bump

Package	When	Skeleton	Optional Add-ons
D1: Version Alignment	Pre-bump	Check package.json versions across packages	README version sync
D2: Reference Validity	Pre-publish	Check internal links, cross-package refs	External link spot-check
D3: Full Sweep	Major release	All 23 items + documentation freshness	Dreaming integration

Agent choice: User names release scope → select package. Default D1 for patch, D2 for minor, D3 for major.

Scene E: Quarterly Dreaming

Trigger: User says "做梦" / "consolidate" / "memory cleanup"

Package	When	Skeleton	Optional Add-ons
E1: Trend Analysis	Every quarter	Weekly chain pattern + lesson candidate validation	Wiki promotion decisions
E2: Full Archive	Year-end / major milestone	All 23 items + historical drift full audit	SSOT regeneration

Agent choice: Dreaming skill owns this. Weekly skill provides weekly chain as input.

23-Item Reference Checklist (menu, not mandate)

Use this as a menu when user selects B2 (Deep Audit) or D3 (Full Sweep). Not for everyday use.

1. Document Chain Integrity

• 1.1 daily chain continuity
• 1.2 weekly chain continuity
• 1.3 weekly period alignment
• 1.4 daily → weekly reference consistency
• 1.5 weekly → ADR reference consistency

2. Code-Document Consistency

• 2.1 skill source vs build output freshness
• 2.2 package.json version lockstep
• 2.3 README version sync
• 2.4 AGENTS.md command reference validity
• 2.5 SKILL.md command reference validity

3. Governance State Consistency

• 3.1 cortex task status
• 3.2 cortex epic status
• 3.3 ADR status vs directory location
• 3.4 task 7+ days without commit
• 3.5 epic all-done but not closed

4. Reference Validity

• 4.1 internal file references exist
• 4.2 cross-package references exist
• 4.3 external links (spot-check, not exhaustive)
• 4.4 showcase → playground references

5. Metadata Completeness

• 5.1 skill frontmatter complete
• 5.2 ADR Status History complete
• 5.3 task English slug
• 5.4 weekly frontmatter complete

How to use: Agent presents checklist to user. User selects scope ("just 1 and 3" or "all"). Agent executes selected items. No automatic full scan.

Long-Range Consistency Principle

Weekly is the anchor for long-range consistency. Not because it's the most frequent, but because it's the right frequency:

• daily: too frequent, compaction makes it unreliable for drift detection
• weekly: just right — regular enough to catch drift, sparse enough to survive compaction
• quarterly: too sparse, drift accumulates beyond easy repair

The weekly chain (weekly/2026-W17.md, 2026-W18.md, ...) is a temporal index. Future agents reading cold can:

1. Find the latest weekly → know current ISO week
2. Follow chain backward → reconstruct narrative
3. Detect gaps → know where drift occurred

This is the project's memory infrastructure in practice.

When you need to…	Read
Full frontmatter spec and examples	references/weekly-format.md
Validate-companion pattern details	references/verify-companion.md
Relationship with daily scribe + onboarding	references/cqrs-architecture.md