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)

# 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/project-cortex@0.17.1 probe
bunx @lythos/project-cortex@0.17.1 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• Superseded decisions: later ADR that contradicts an earlier one (e.g., combo redefinition May 6 superseded May 1 section semantics)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
• Before epic planning to understand what unlocked/paused
• Do NOT auto-schedule — the player decides timing

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/project-cortex@0.17.1 index
bunx @lythos/project-cortex@0.17.1 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/project-cortex@0.17.1 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.

Gotchas

Show draft before writing. Present the weekly content to the user for confirmation. Prevents hallucinated synthesis from being persisted.

Weekly ≠ daily rollup. If it reads like 7 daily handoffs concatenated, it's wrong. Weekly is a new layer of abstraction.

Emergent work is not failure. If the "emergent + done" cell is full while "planned + done" is empty, that's not a planning failure — it's the project responding to E2E reality. Document the pattern, don't apologize.

Cortex is optional. If the project uses cortex, read active epics/tasks. If not, infer quest status from daily handoffs and git history.

Supporting References

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

Source & license

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

• Author: lythos-labs
• Source: lythos-labs/lythoskill
• License: MIT

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