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kcc-agentic-journaler

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Provides a structured logic for capturing and routing agentic learnings to prevent knowledge pollution.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/k8s-config-connector/blob/HEAD/.gemini/skills/kcc-agentic-journaler/SKILL.md

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KCC Agentic Journaler

Overview

As an agent, you must record "tribal knowledge" and technical breakthroughs. This skill ensures that your learnings are stored in the most contextually relevant location.

Routing Logic

When you have a new learning, follow this hierarchy to choose the destination:

Tier 1: General Mechanics

Scenario: You found a better way to do something that applies to all KCC resources (e.g., "A more efficient way to resolve Project IDs"). Destination: Update the relevant Skill's SKILL.md file directly.

Tier 2: Domain and Service Tribal Knowledge

Scenario: You found a trick for a specific implementation area, or a quirk unique to a specific GCP service. Destination: ALWAYS create or append to .gemini/journals/<service_name>.md.

CRITICAL: Do NOT append to any journal.md inside a .gemini/skills/ directory. Multiple agents working in parallel on different services will cause merge conflicts if they all write to a centralized skill journal. By keeping journals scoped to the <service_name>, we eliminate cross-service merge conflicts.

Journal Entry Template

Use this format for your entries in .gemini/journals/<service_name>.md:

### [YYYY-MM-DD] <Brief Title>
- **Context**: <What were you implementing? Link to Kind/PR>
- **Problem**: <What was the unexpected behavior or hurdle?>
- **Solution**: <How did you solve it? Provide code snippets if relevant.>
- **Impact**: <Why should the next agent care about this?>

Validation

In your final turn of the task, you MUST state which knowledge was captured and provide the file path.