custom-claude-skills/memory/log/2026-03-17.110845.md

Session Log — 2026-03-17

Summary

Fixed the /housekeeping skill aborting mid-run because info-gathering scripts (unreflected-logs, git-status-report, check-skills, validate-skill) exit with code 1 as a status signal, which the skill's !command`` syntax treated as a failure.

Decisions

• Decision: Append || true to all four bang-command invocations in the housekeeping skill — Rationale: These scripts use exit 1 to signal "issues found" (not errors), and the skill is read-only/informational, so suppressing the exit code is safe.

Gotchas Discovered

• [skills] Symptom: !command`` in SKILL.md fails when the command exits non-zero, even if the output is valid and informational — Fix: Append || true to bang-commands that use exit codes as status signals rather than error indicators.

Key Context

• All four scripts in small-scripts/scripts/ (git-status-report, unreflected-logs, check-skills, validate-skill) follow the same pattern: exit 0 = all clear, exit 1 = issues found. This is correct for CLI tools but incompatible with skill bang-command syntax without || true.