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Context priming before work (bd prime) and self-reflection after completion to extract patterns, gotchas, and decisions into the knowledge base.

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$ npx -y skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill knowledge-curation --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/knowledge-curation

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Context priming before work (bd prime) and self-reflection after completion to extract patterns, gotchas, and decisions into the knowledge base.

SKILL.md

knowledge-curation.SKILL.md
name: knowledge-curation
description: Context priming before work (bd prime) and self-reflection after completion to extract patterns, gotchas, and decisions into the knowledge base.
allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob, WebFetch, WebSearch, Agent, AskUserQuestion
graph:
  domains: [domain:software-engineering]
  skillAreas: [skill-area:agentic-loops, skill-area:orchestration-loop]
  workflows: [workflow:feature-development]
  topics: [topic:developer-experience]
  roles: [role:tech-lead, role:backend-engineer]
  • After completing work, BEFORE PR creation (reflect mode)
  • When recovering from context loss (recovery priming)

Knowledge Categories

| Category | File | Content | |----------|------|---------| | Critical Rules | facts.jsonl | MUST FOLLOW constraints | | Gotchas | gotchas.jsonl | Common pitfalls | | Patterns | patterns.jsonl | Codebase best practices | | Decisions | decisions.jsonl | Architectural choices with rationale | | Anti-Patterns | anti-patterns.jsonl | What NOT to do | | Codebase Facts | codebase-facts.jsonl | Structural information | | API Behaviors | api-behaviors.jsonl | Undocumented quirks |

Process

Prime Mode

1. Load knowledge base files for work type 2. Surface MUST FOLLOW rules first 3. Present GOTCHAS and PATTERNS 4. Load relevant DECISIONS

Reflect Mode

1. Extract patterns from completed work 2. Identify gotchas from review failures 3. Record architectural decisions with rationale 4. Persist to .beads/knowledge/

Tool Use

Invoke via babysitter process: `methodologies/metaswarm/metaswarm-knowledge-cycle`

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