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Extract lessons from the current session, or sweep the project's past sessions when asked, and route them to the appropriate knowledge layer (project AGENTS.md, auto memory, existing skills, or new skills). Use when the user asks to "self-improve", "distill this session", "distill past sessions", "sweep past sessions", "extract lessons from all sessions", "save learnings", "update CLAUDE.md with what we learned", "capture session insights", "remember this for next time", "extract lessons", "update skills from session", or "what did we learn".

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# Self-Improve

Review the current conversation, or the project's past sessions when asked, to extract durable lessons and route each one to the right knowledge layer.

## Step 1: Detect Context

Available destinations:

- **Project CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md** — The root `.claude/CLAUDE.md` (may be a symlink to `../AGENTS.md` — resolve it), plus any nested `CLAUDE.md` / `AGENTS.md` files in subdirectories. Claude Code loads a subdirectory's file on demand when files in that subtree are accessed, so a lesson scoped to one subtree belongs in the nearest enclosing file, with the root reserved for project-wide rules.
- **Auto memory** — The project-specific memory directory named by the active harness. An effective `autoMemoryDirectory` setting overrides its location; otherwise it normally lives at `<Claude config home>/projects/<encoded project root>/memory/`, where the config home is `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` when set and `~/.claude` otherwise. The key replaces every character outside `A-Za-z0-9` with `-`, and long keys may be truncated and hashed, so prefer the exact harness-provided path over recomputing it. List the directory and read `MEMORY.md` if it exists.
- **Skills** — Project skills at `skills/` or `.claude/skills/` (resolve symlinks)

Discover the project CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md files (the root file and any nested ones in subdirectories) and read them, then read MEMORY.md. When those files point at a knowledge base the repo maintains, read its index too; it is a documentation source for Step 3 rather than a routing destination. List all skill directories with the `description` frontmatter of each SKILL.md, but do not read the bodies yet — Step 2 needs to run first so you know what to look for.
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