Summarize Session

Summarize Session

Purpose

At the end of a productive coding session, analyze the conversation to extract reusable patterns and generate Claude Code artifacts (rules, skills, commands) that can accelerate future work.

Instructions

1. Review Session Activity

• What problems were solved?
• What code was written or modified?
• What workflows were performed?
• What decisions were made and why?

1. Identify Patterns

Rules Candidates (coding standards, project conventions):

• Repeated code style corrections
• Error patterns that were fixed
• Best practices established
• Project-specific conventions

Skills Candidates (multi-step workflows):

• Complex operations performed multiple times
• Sequences of commands that go together
• Integration or deployment workflows
• Testing or validation procedures

Commands Candidates (single-action shortcuts):

• Frequently used command combinations
• Build/test/deploy shortcuts
• Common git operations
• Project-specific utilities

1. Generate Artifacts

For each identified pattern, create the appropriate artifact:

Rules → .claude/rules//RULE.md ```markdown --- name: rule-name description: Brief description ---

# Rule Name

## When to Apply ...

## Guidelines ... ```

Skills → .claude/skills//SKILL.md ```markdown --- name: skill-name description: Brief description ---

# Skill Name

## Instructions

1. Step 1
2. Step 2

... ```

Commands → .claude/commands/.md ```markdown # Command Name

Description of what this command does.

## Steps

1. ...
2. ...

```

1. Validate Artifacts

• Ensure artifacts are general enough to be reusable
• Remove session-specific details
• Test that instructions are complete and actionable

1. Document Session Summary

• What was accomplished
• What artifacts were generated
• Recommendations for next session

Output Format

## Session Summary

### Accomplished
- [List of completed tasks]

### Generated Artifacts

#### Rules
- ``: 

#### Skills
- ``: 

#### Commands
- ``: 

### Next Steps
- [Recommendations for future work]

Examples

Example: After Adding a New Adapter

Identified Pattern: Multi-step process for adding adapters Generated: Skill new-adapter

Example: After Fixing Multiple Type Errors

Identified Pattern: TypeScript strict mode conventions Generated: Rule typescript-conventions

Example: After Repeated Test Commands

Identified Pattern: Test-then-commit workflow Generated: Command test-and-commit

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: lbb00
• Source: lbb00/ai-rules-sync
• License: Unlicense
• Homepage: https://lbb00.github.io/ai-rules-sync

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.