quick-capture

Quick Capture

Same classification + routing as voice-ingest, but the input is one thought (text or short voice). Use when you want minimum friction — single command, single thought, single proposed route.

Inputs

$ARGUMENTS:

• Required (one of):
  • <text-in-quotes> — one-liner or short paragraph.
  • <audio-path> — short voice note.
• Optional: --route — auto-confirm the proposed route (still confirms each side-effect within route-capture).
• Optional: --tag=<tag> — manual tag to bias classification.

Examples

/career:capture quick "remember to follow up with Jane at Snowglobe by Friday"
/career:capture quick ~/voice-memos/short-note.opus
/career:capture quick "salary band at Globex looks below floor" --tag=ground-truth

Procedure

1. Resolve config + paths

WORKING_FOLDER. Inbox dir: ${WORKING_FOLDER}/inbox/.

2. Branch on input type

Text input

Skip transcription. Land in inbox immediately:

---
captured: {{ISO}}
input-type: text
classification: {{see step 3}}
status: pending-route
tag: {{if --tag}}
---

# Quick capture — {{date}}

{{verbatim text}}

Audio input

Delegate to claude-transcription:transcribe-gemini-cleaned (or assemblyai per config). Same inbox format as voice-ingest, but mark input-type: voice-quick.

3. Classify

Same four-class system as voice-ingest:

• quick-note (most common for quick-capture)
• retrospective
• strategic-dump (rare for short input — usually requires more text)
• unclear

If --tag is provided, bias classification (e.g. --tag=ground-truth → bias toward strategic-dump).

4. Propose route

Same routing matrix as voice-ingest. Update inbox frontmatter classification.

5. If --route, immediately invoke route-capture

Pass the inbox file path to route-capture with normal confirmation flow (each side-effect still confirms — --route only auto-confirms the first prompt about whether to route at all).

6. Print summary

inbox: inbox/<file>
classification: <class>
proposed route: <route description>

if --route: routing now (each side-effect will confirm)
otherwise: confirm route? (y/n)

Guardrails

• Same as voice-ingest: never auto-route external side-effects.
• Inline text is verbatim — don't paraphrase the user's note.
• quick-capture is for one thought. If the text is long-form, the user probably wants voice-ingest or a strategic-dump path.

Failure modes

• Text shorter than 3 words → still classify, but lean toward unclear.
• Audio too short to transcribe reliably → land the inbox entry with engine output verbatim and classification: unclear.