Trash panda

Trash Panda 🦝

He digs through your chats and drags the good stuff back to the den. The den is a plain den/ folder of markdown — one file per project — that he appends to. He never overwrites your hand edits.

Commands: /dig (main), /den, /sniff, /feed <chat>, /wash, /nap.

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/dig — the main loop

Step 1 — Read the den (get context)

1. Make sure den/ exists. If not, create it with an empty den/index.md.
2. Read every den/*.md file. Build a list of:
   • existing project files (filename → project name)
   • existing artifact titles per project (for dedup)
3. Read the last-dig timestamp from the top of den/index.md (line format: <!-- last_dig: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ -->). If absent, treat last_dig = 7 days ago.

Step 2 — Read chats since the last dig

recent_chats(n=20, sort_order="desc")

If last_dig is older than 3 days, page back with before= for full coverage. Only process chats updated AFTER last_dig.

For each chat, capture its URL so every artifact can link back: https://claude.ai/chat/<id> (or the ChatGPT URL when digging an export).

Step 3 — Extract artifacts

Scan each chat and pull out four types:

Type	Signals in the text
📝 To Do	"need to", "next step", "send X", "write the…", "follow up", explicit next actions
💎 Shiny	"idea", "what if", "could try", "worth exploring" — a thought worth keeping
🗺️ The Plan	a decided approach, strategy, sequence of steps, "here's the plan", "we'll do X then Y"
📜 Loot	something actually produced — a draft, doc, CV, reading list, snippet, named output

For each artifact determine:

• title — short, concrete, ≤ 80 chars
• type — todo / shiny / plan / loot
• project — match an existing den project, or a new project name, or inbox
• confidence — high / mid / low
• source — the chat URL (for the backlink)

Step 4 — Dedup

Before keeping a candidate, compare against existing titles in the target project file. If a near-match already exists (>70% meaning overlap), skip it. The same Shiny must never land twice.

Step 5 — Show the haul (approve before writing)

Render an interactive widget (visualize:show_widget) with:

• Already in den — duplicates, greyed out
• New haul — everything else, each row with ✓ keep / ✕ toss

Columns: artifact (title) · type badge · project · confidence · source link. Bottom button "Stash selected → den ↗" calls sendPrompt() with the approved list.

Write nothing until the user approves. If the haul is empty, say so plainly ("dug around, nothing new worth keeping").

Step 6 — Stash approved artifacts into the den

For each approved artifact, append to den/<project>.md under the right section (create the file from the template below if missing). Never overwrite existing content.

Line format per type:

## 📝 To Do's
- [ ] <title>  [↗](<source_url>)

## 💎 Shiny
- <title>  [↗](<source_url>)

## 🗺️ The Plan
- <title>  [↗](<source_url>)

## 📜 Loot
- <title> — <1-line note>  [↗](<source_url>)

New-project file template:

# <emoji> <Project Name>

## 📝 To Do's

## 💎 Shiny

## 🗺️ The Plan

## 📜 Loot

Step 7 — Rebuild the index and stamp the dig

Regenerate den/index.md:

<!-- last_dig: <CURRENT_ISO_DATETIME> -->
# 🦝 The Den

Last haul: <N> scraps · <N> shiny · <N> plan · <N> loot

| Project | Open To Do's |
|---|---|
| [<name>](<file>) | <count> |

Then report the haul in one line: "last haul: 3 scraps · 1 shiny · 1 plan → den".

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/den — glance at the den

Read den/index.md and the project files. Show the dashboard: projects, open To Do counts, and the last-dig time. Don't read chats, don't write anything.

/sniff — dry run

Run /dig Steps 1–5 but stop before writing. Show the haul, write nothing, don't stamp the dig.

/feed <chat> — dig one chat

Skip the "since last dig" window. Process only the chat the user points to, then run Steps 3–7 on it.

/wash — tidy the den

Re-read every project file, collapse exact and near-duplicate lines, drop empty sections, and rebuild den/index.md. Show a short "washed: removed N dupes" summary. Never delete a unique artifact.

/nap — pause

Write <!-- napping: true --> to den/index.md. Skip scheduled/auto digs until the next manual /dig, which clears it.

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Quality rules

Keep: explicit next actions, ideas with a concrete next step, a decided plan, a real produced artifact (Loot).

Skip: general musing with no action, things discussed but not intended, duplicates already in the den, low-level implementation detail (that's context, not an artifact), final phrasings of bios/captions (not actionable).

Confidence: high = clear next action or concrete idea, mentioned 2+ times · mid = mentioned once with intent · low = passing mention, flag for review.

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Edge cases

• No chats in window → say so, suggest /dig --days 14.
• No den/ yet → create it with an empty index, then proceed.
• Too many candidates (>20) → show high-confidence first, collapse the rest.
• Project unclear → drop into den/inbox.md, note the guessed project so the user can move it by hand.

Optional parameters

Param	Default	Effect
--days N	since last dig	read chats from N days back
--project NAME	all	only stash into one project
--dry-run	false	same as /sniff