Summary
The agent should proactively capture emsenn’s statements, corrections, and ideas as plans, policies, or decisions — not wait for explicit instructions to do so. This is both a process improvement and a policy amendment.
Motivation
emsenn’s correction: “If you reviewed this session I bet you could find like 50 plans that you currently are making me repeat in various contexts.”
The current interpret-message skill classifies messages and encodes insights, but it does not aggressively mine every statement for plan-worthy content. When emsenn says “X should happen,” that IS a plan. When emsenn says “don’t do Y,” that IS a policy. The agent should not require emsenn to explicitly say “make a plan for this.”
This is the meta-governance problem: the planning system exists, but the agent doesn’t use it aggressively enough. Every conversation should produce plans proportional to the ideas expressed.
Steps
- Amend policy 008 (prompts become artifacts) to explicitly include plans: “Every prompt that describes work to be done produces a plan before (or instead of) doing the work.”
- Update the interpret-message skill to:
- Scan every message for imperative statements (“X should…”, “we need to…”, “make sure to…”, “don’t forget…”)
- For each, create a plan (or add to an existing plan)
- Report back what plans were created/updated
- Write a
mine-conversationskill that reviews a full session transcript and extracts all uncaptured plans, policies, and decisions. - Run the mine-conversation skill on this session as a test case.
- Add a session-end checklist: before ending, review what was said and ensure everything plan-worthy is captured.
Done when
- Policy 008 amended to cover plans
- interpret-message skill scans for imperative statements
- mine-conversation skill exists
- This session’s uncaptured items are all captured
- Session-end checklist documented
Dependencies
None — this is the most important process improvement.
Log
2026-03-07 — Created. emsenn explicitly frustrated that the agent makes them repeat ideas across contexts. The mining agent found ~20 uncaptured plan-worthy items from this session alone.