summarize-session

Agent Building

Summarize the current session and generate reusable Claude rules, skills, or commands.

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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

Review Session Activity
- What problems were solved?
- What code was written or modified?
- What workflows were performed?
- What decisions were made and why?
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

Generate Artifacts

For each identified pattern, create the appropriate artifact:

Rules → .claude/rules/<name>/RULE.md

---
name: rule-name
description: Brief description
---

# Rule Name

## When to Apply
...

## Guidelines
...

Skills → .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md

---
name: skill-name
description: Brief description
---

# Skill Name

## Instructions
1. Step 1
2. Step 2
...

Commands → .claude/commands/<name>.md

# Command Name

Description of what this command does.

## Steps
1. ...
2. ...

Validate Artifacts
- Ensure artifacts are general enough to be reusable
- Remove session-specific details
- Test that instructions are complete and actionable
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
- `<rule-name>`: <description>

#### Skills
- `<skill-name>`: <description>

#### Commands
- `<command-name>`: <description>

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

Examples

Example: After Adding a New Adapter

Identified Pattern: Multi-step process for adding adapters Generated: Skill ai-rules-adapter-builder

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