loopany-capture

Productivity

Auto-capture after substantive work concludes. Routes events (PR shipped, incident resolved, decision made, problem noticed) to the right loopany artifact kind with a quality gate. Should run proactively — check this skill at the end of every user-requested task. Triggers: after any substantive work, 'record this', 'log this outcome', PR shipped, incident resolved, decision made, problem noticed but deferred.

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loopany-capture — event-triggered artifact capture

After substantive work concludes, check whether to record it as a loopany artifact. "Substantive" = produced evidence or a decision a future reader would need to find.

Event → Kind routing

Event	Target kind	Read
PR shipped / merged	`task`	`../loopany-core/kinds/task.md`
Incident resolved	`task`	`../loopany-core/kinds/task.md`
Problem noticed, not acting now	`signal`	`../loopany-core/kinds/signal.md`
Existing task outcome observed	append `## Outcome`	`../loopany-core/kinds/task.md § Playbook`
Decision made with rationale	`note` or `task --status done`	see flowchart below

Decision flowchart

Resolved a pending signal? → task --status done + addressed edge
Produced something shippable? → task --status done with ## Outcome
Reasoned preference / principle? → note titled "decided: X over Y because Z"
Belief from ≥ 2 data points? → learning via loopany-reflect

Default note when unsure.

Quality gate

Skip capture when:

Not observable — feeling, not fact.
Already captured — loopany artifact list --contains "<phrase>". Match? Append.
Too small — typo fix, whitespace, one-liner.
Speculation — at most a signal, only if concrete.
Internal agent work — grepping, reading, answering. Not a capture event.

Quick test: if you can't write a one-sentence ## Outcome, skip the task.

Subagent dispatch

Don't capture inline — it breaks focus and produces weaker artifacts:

Filter — main session runs the quality gate.
Compose context (3-5 sentences): what happened, why it matters, any numbers or artifact IDs in scope.
Dispatch: "Record this via loopany. Read loopany-core to pick the right kind. Return the artifact ID."
Subagent writes the artifact, returns ID.
Main session continues — no context switch.

If the host has no subagent primitive, capture inline but keep it tight.

Anti-patterns

❌ Trigger on every message exchange → only at completed-work boundaries.
❌ Capture during work, not after → no Outcome yet.
❌ Skip the quality gate → noise artifacts pollute reflect.
❌ Inline capture in long sessions → use subagent pattern.