reflect

Reflect

Analyze a session transcript to extract learnings and apply them as improvements to the project's documentation — CLAUDE.md, README.md, and auto-memory files.

What This Skill Does

After a session ends (or when invoked manually), reflect reads through the transcript and looks for:

• Corrections — The user said "no", "not like that", corrected output, or Claude had to retry something that failed
• Discoveries — New patterns, conventions, or constraints that emerged during the work
• Pain points — Workarounds, confusing APIs, tricky configurations that cost time
• Decisions — Architectural or design choices made during the session that future sessions should know about

Then it determines which project files would benefit from capturing these learnings and edits them directly.

Modes

Interactive Mode (default)

When a user runs /self-improve-skill:reflect in conversation:

1. Summarize what happened in the session (2-3 sentences)
2. List the learnings found, grouped by confidence (HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW)
3. For each learning, show which file would be edited and the proposed change
4. Ask the user to approve, modify, or skip each change
5. Apply approved changes

Non-Interactive Mode (--non-interactive flag)

When invoked by the SessionEnd hook via claude -p "/self-improve-skill:reflect --non-interactive" < transcript.jsonl:

• Parse the JSONL transcript from stdin
• Analyze the session
• Apply only HIGH confidence changes directly
• Write MEDIUM/LOW confidence observations to the memory directory for later review
• Do NOT run any git commands
• Output a summary of changes made to stdout

Detect mode by checking if --non-interactive is present in the arguments.

Target Files

Only edit files within the current repository. Never edit global files like ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md.

CLAUDE.md

Add or update instructions that would prevent repeating mistakes or capture conventions discovered during the session. Examples:

• "Always run npm run typecheck before committing — the CI check is strict"
• "The legacy/ directory uses CommonJS, not ESM"
• "Database migrations must be backwards-compatible (blue-green deploys)"

Place new entries in the most relevant existing section. If no section fits, append to the end. Keep entries concise — one line per instruction when possible.

README.md

Update if the session revealed outdated setup instructions, missing prerequisites, or incorrect documentation. Only edit sections that are clearly wrong or missing critical information.

Auto-memory (~/.claude/projects/.../memory/)

Write observations that are useful but not yet confirmed across multiple sessions. Memory is a good staging ground — things can graduate to CLAUDE.md once they prove stable. Organize by topic file (e.g., debugging.md, patterns.md), not chronologically.

How to Analyze

Read the transcript looking for these signals:

HIGH confidence (apply in non-interactive mode):

• User explicitly corrected Claude and the correction reveals a project convention
• A command failed and the fix reveals an environment requirement
• User stated a preference or rule directly ("always use...", "never do...")

MEDIUM confidence (memory only in non-interactive mode):

• Patterns observed but not explicitly stated by the user
• Workarounds that might be temporary
• Tool/library preferences shown implicitly

LOW confidence (memory only in non-interactive mode):

• Single-occurrence observations
• Things that might be session-specific rather than project-wide

Important Constraints

• Never duplicate information already in CLAUDE.md or memory files — check first
• Never remove existing content unless it's clearly contradicted by session evidence
• Keep edits minimal and surgical — add what's needed, nothing more
• If a CLAUDE.md file doesn't exist yet, do not create one — only edit existing files
• If a memory directory doesn't exist, you may create it (this is standard Claude Code behavior)
• Prefer updating an existing memory file over creating a new one
• Never edit skill files, hook files, or plugin configurations
• Never run git add, git commit, or git push

Example

After a session where the user struggled with TypeScript strict mode:

CLAUDE.md addition:

# TypeScript
- This project uses `strict: true` in tsconfig — always handle null/undefined explicitly
- Prefer `satisfies` over `as` for type assertions

Memory file (memory/typescript.md):

## Strict mode patterns observed
- User prefers `satisfies` operator over type assertions
- Nullable fields in API responses need explicit checks, not non-null assertions