memtrace-daily

Productivity

Orient at the start of a coding session, review what recently changed in a repository, and self-audit after completing work. Use when the user wants the daily briefing (what changed in the last 24h with complexity deltas), hotspots (complexity × churn refactor priorities), or a session review (clean/review/risky verdicts per editing session). For catching up after time away or resuming a prior session, use memtrace-session-continuity; daily is the last-24h briefing + hotspots + self-audit. Do not reconstruct recent activity from git log; Memtrace diffs the graph at save granularity.

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Overview

Session bookends: orient before you start, audit before you finish. All three tools read the bi-temporal version history — every save is a change event with complexity deltas, so "what happened" includes "did it make the code better or worse".

Quick Reference

Tool	Purpose
`get_daily_briefing`	Last 24h diffed at graph level: changed functions with complexity deltas, new functions, new endpoints, per-module distribution
`find_hotspots`	Functions ranked by complexity × recent changes — the ordered refactor priority list
`review_agent_sessions`	Editing sessions clustered by actor, judged clean / review / risky

Parameter types: MCP parameters are strictly typed. Numbers

Full parameter spec for every Memtrace tool: references/mcp-parameters.md (bundled at the memtrace-skills plugin root).

(window_hours, window_days, top_n) must be JSON numbers.

Steps

1. Orient at session start

get_daily_briefing with repo_id. Read the summary first:

net_cyclomatic_delta positive → recent work added complexity; check whether your task touches the same area before piling on.
changed rows with large positive deltas → recently-destabilised code; prefer preflight_check before editing anything in that list.

2. When the task is refactoring or cleanup

find_hotspots — work the list top-down. A hotspot you simplify pays off on every future change; a complex-but-untouched function can wait.

3. Self-audit before declaring work done

review_agent_sessions and find YOUR session (newest, your agent id):

clean — done; state the verdict in your summary.
review — re-read your top_changes rows; justify each complexity increase or simplify it.
risky — do not hand off yet. You added >30 net cyclomatic or touched a >50-complexity function; extract helpers / flatten nesting first, then re-run the review.

The standard a session should meet

Net complexity delta ≤ 0 unless the task genuinely required new branching (new feature with new cases). "I left the code simpler than I found it" is verifiable here — verify it.

Output

Tool	Returns
`get_daily_briefing`	summary with `net_cyclomatic_delta`; `changed` rows (function + complexity delta); new functions, new endpoints, per-module distribution
`find_hotspots`	ranked list of functions scored by complexity × recent changes
`review_agent_sessions`	per-session verdict (`clean` / `review` / `risky`) with `top_changes` rows and net cyclomatic delta