Summarize Session

Purpose

At the end of a productive coding session, analyze the conversation to extract reusable patterns and generate Claude Code artifacts (rules, skills, commands) that can accelerate future work.

Instructions

1. Review Session Activity

• What problems were solved?
• What code was written or modified?
• What workflows were performed?
• What decisions were made and why?

1. Identify Patterns

Rules Candidates (coding standards, project conventions):

• Repeated code style corrections
• Error patterns that were fixed
• Best practices established
• Project-specific conventions

Skills Candidates (multi-step workflows):

• Complex operations performed multiple times
• Sequences of commands that go together
• Integration or deployment workflows
• Testing or validation procedures

Commands Candidates (single-action shortcuts):

• Frequently used command combinations
• Build/test/deploy shortcuts
• Common git operations
• Project-specific utilities

1. Generate Artifacts

For each identified pattern, create the appropriate artifact:

Rules → .claude/rules/<name>/RULE.md

   ---
   name: rule-name
   description: Brief description
   ---

   # Rule Name

   ## When to Apply
   ...

   ## Guidelines
   ...

Skills → .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md

   ---
   name: skill-name
   description: Brief description
   ---

   # Skill Name

   ## Instructions
   1. Step 1
   2. Step 2
   ...

Commands → .claude/commands/<name>.md

   # Command Name

   Description of what this command does.

   ## Steps
   1. ...
   2. ...

1. Validate Artifacts

• Ensure artifacts are general enough to be reusable
• Remove session-specific details
• Test that instructions are complete and actionable

1. Document Session Summary

• What was accomplished
• What artifacts were generated
• Recommendations for next session

Output Format

## Session Summary

### Accomplished
- [List of completed tasks]

### Generated Artifacts

#### Rules
- `<rule-name>`: <description>

#### Skills
- `<skill-name>`: <description>

#### Commands
- `<command-name>`: <description>

### Next Steps
- [Recommendations for future work]

Examples

Example: After Adding a New Adapter

Identified Pattern: Multi-step process for adding adapters Generated: Skill new-adapter

Example: After Fixing Multiple Type Errors

Identified Pattern: TypeScript strict mode conventions Generated: Rule typescript-conventions

Example: After Repeated Test Commands

Identified Pattern: Test-then-commit workflow Generated: Command test-and-commit