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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-25 09:37:28 +12:00

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Knowledge Distillation Pipeline

Three skills form a continuous learning pipeline across projects:

  1. /log — Run at end of session. Captures decisions, gotchas, open questions to memory/log/YYYY-MM-DD.<HHMMSS>.md in the current project. Also prunes old reflected logs.
  2. /reflect-logs — Run periodically. Processes unprocessed session logs into topic memory files (memory/gotchas-*.md, memory/process-lessons.md, etc.). Flags stale entries. Tracks state in .reflection-state.json.
  3. /distill-best-practices — Run from any project. Reads changed memory files across all tracked projects and proposes updates to claude-foundations/best-practices/. Tracks state in best-practices/.distill-state.json.

State files

  • .reflection-state.json — per-project, tracks which logs have been reflected on (md5 hashes of log content)
  • best-practices/.distill-state.json — in claude-foundations, tracks git SHAs per project at time of last distillation
  • settings.yaml — in claude-foundations, configures log retention (default 7 days), max logs per reflection run, tracked project list

Log format

Session logs use structured markdown with parseable section headers: Summary, Decisions, Gotchas Discovered (tagged with [topic] for routing), Open Questions, Key Context, Process Notes. Empty sections are omitted.

Pruning

  • Reflected logs older than log.retention_days (default: 7) are automatically deleted by /log
  • Unreflected logs older than log.warn_unreflected_days (default: 14) trigger a warning instead of deletion
  • /reflect-logs flags stale memory entries (version-specific bugs that have been fixed, manual processes that have been automated)