distill

# Distill Conversations

Process today's conversations to extract actionable knowledge. This is the core of memory consolidation.

**Important:** This runs as a coordinator. Spawn sub-agents for each conversation file to avoid loading full transcripts into your context.

## Process

### 1. Find Today's Conversations

List conversation files modified today:

```bash
find ~/.claude/projects -name "*.jsonl" -mtime -1 -type f 2>/dev/null
```

### 2. Process Each Conversation

For **each** conversation file, spawn a sub-agent with the Task tool:

```
Task(subagent_type="general-purpose", prompt=`
Read the conversation at {path}.

Filter to actual conversation content:
- Include: human messages, assistant text responses
- Exclude: tool calls, tool results, system messages, thinking blocks

Extract and return as JSON:
{
  "distilled_actions": [
    {
      "summary": "Fixed auth bug in src/auth.ts where token refresh was racing",
      "files": ["src/auth.ts"],
      "outcome": "Added mutex lock around refresh"
    }
  ],
  "facts": [
    {
      "topic": "project-name",
      "content": "Uses JWT tokens with 15min expiry"
    },
    {
      "topic": "person-name",
      "content": "Prefers explicit error handling over try/catch"
    }
  ],
  "decisions": [
    "Chose Redis over in-memory cache for session storage because of multi-instance deployment"
  ]
}

Focus on:
- What was accomplished (not just discussed)
- Decisions made and their rationale
- New information about projects, people, or preferences
- File paths and specific technical details that should survive compression

Return ONLY the JSON, no explanation.
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### 3. Collect and Write Results

After all sub-agents complete:

**Write distilled actions to journal:**
```
For each action in all results:
  log_journal(topic="distilled", content=action.summary + " Files: " + action.files.join(", "))
```

**Write overall summary to journal:**
```
log_journal(topic="distill-summary", content="Processed N conversatio