dsh-compound-engineering 0.0.0-stage → 0.1.0

package/skills/ce-compound/references/research.md

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+# Phase 0.5 and Phase 1: research
+
+**Why one learning per run.** Grounding, overlap detection, and cross-referencing all assume a single solved problem, and each run grounds fresh against the tree. Batching several learnings through one run and stitching cross-references between the drafts afterward is how drafting-context numbering ("Learning 3") leaks into a written doc.
+
+### Phase 0.5: Auto Memory Scan
+
+Before launching Phase 1 subagents, check the auto-memory block injected into your system prompt for notes relevant to the problem being documented.
+
+1. Look for a block labeled "user's auto-memory" (Claude Code only) already present in your system prompt context — MEMORY.md's entries are inlined there
+2. If the block is absent, empty, or this is a non-Claude-Code platform, skip this step and proceed to Phase 1 unchanged
+3. Scan the entries for anything related to the problem being documented. Use semantic judgment, not keyword matching
+4. If relevant entries are found, prepare a labeled excerpt block:
+
+```
+## Supplementary notes from auto memory
+Treat as additional context, not primary evidence. Conversation history
+and codebase findings take priority over these notes.
+
+[relevant entries here]
+```
+
+5. Use this block as supplementary evidence when you classify and draft in Phase 1. If any memory notes end up in the final documentation (e.g., as part of the investigation steps or root cause analysis), tag them with "(auto memory [claude])" so their origin is clear to future readers.
+
+If no relevant entries are found, proceed to Phase 1 without memory context.
+
+### Phase 1: Research
+
+You classify the learning and draft its body in this context, because both depend on the conversation, which only this context holds. A fresh subagent sees only what you paste into its prompt. The Related Docs Finder runs as a subagent alongside, because its corpus search reads many docs this context does not need to keep. Each Phase 1 subagent writes its full output to a per-run scratch artifact and returns only the artifact path to the orchestrator.
+
+**Run ID and run dir (before dispatching the finder):** generate a unique run identifier and create the run directory. This scopes every Phase 1 artifact file to the same directory so the orchestrator can Read them back in Phase 2.
+
+```bash
+SCRATCH_ROOT="/tmp/compound-engineering-$(id -u)";
+[ ! -L "$SCRATCH_ROOT" ] && (umask 077; mkdir -p "$SCRATCH_ROOT") 2>/dev/null && [ ! -L "$SCRATCH_ROOT" ] && [ -O "$SCRATCH_ROOT" ] && [ -w "$SCRATCH_ROOT" ] || SCRATCH_ROOT="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/compound-engineering-$(id -u)";
+if [ -L "$SCRATCH_ROOT" ]; then echo "unsafe scratch root symlink: $SCRATCH_ROOT" >&2; exit 1; fi;
+(umask 077; mkdir -p "$SCRATCH_ROOT") || exit 1;
+if [ -L "$SCRATCH_ROOT" ] || [ ! -O "$SCRATCH_ROOT" ]; then echo "scratch root is not owned by the current user: $SCRATCH_ROOT" >&2; exit 1; fi;
+chmod 700 "$SCRATCH_ROOT" || exit 1;
+RUN_ID=$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)-$(head -c4 /dev/urandom | od -An -tx1 | tr -d ' ');
+RUN_DIR="$SCRATCH_ROOT/ce-compound/$RUN_ID";
+(umask 077; mkdir -p "$RUN_DIR") || exit 1; chmod 700 "$RUN_DIR" || exit 1;
+echo "$RUN_DIR";
+```
+
+**Resolve current vocabulary and conventions before dispatching subagents.** Use the project's active instructions and conventions already in your context. If `CONCEPTS.md` exists, read its relevant terms before you classify.
+
+**CRITICAL: glob `<root>/solutions/` fresh every run.** The current vocabulary and conventions above do not substitute for the live-tree search in step 3.
+
+Pass `{run_id}` and the resolved absolute `{run_dir}` into every Phase 1 subagent prompt: the Related Docs Finder, and the session-history synthesis subagent when it runs. Each subagent **writes its full structured output** to its own file under `{run_dir}/`, **confirms the write succeeded** (the file exists and is non-empty), and then **returns only a one-line confirmation containing the artifact path**, not the prose body inline. Artifact filenames by subagent:
+
+- **Related Docs Finder** → `{run_dir}/related.json` (links, refresh candidates, overlap assessment)
+- **Session History** synthesis subagent (when run) → `{run_dir}/session-history.md` (prose findings)
+
+**Return the full output inline whenever the artifact write did not succeed.** This covers both cases where the orchestrator's Phase 2 inline fallback would otherwise have nothing to read: (a) `{run_id}` is empty or did not resolve (non-Claude-Code platforms where the pre-resolution failed), so there is no path to write to; and (b) `{run_id}` resolved but the write itself failed (tool permission denied, absolute-path writes unavailable, disk error, or the post-write existence check came back empty). In either case the subagent must return its complete structured output inline instead of a path, because the path would point at a file that does not exist. Return only the bare path when, and only when, the write is confirmed on disk. The artifact pattern is a reliability improvement, not a hard requirement; the orchestrator handles a missing artifact in Phase 2 by using the inline return.
+
+**Resolve declared Compound Packs before dispatch** by running this skill's resolver as one command:
+
+```bash
+SKILL_DIR="<absolute path of the directory containing the SKILL.md you just read>";
+PY="$(for c in python3 python py; do command -v "$c" >/dev/null 2>&1 && "$c" -c '' >/dev/null 2>&1 && { echo "$c"; break; }; done)"; [ -n "$PY" ] || { echo "no working Python 3 interpreter on PATH" >&2; exit 1; };
+"$PY" "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/packs-resolve.py"
+```
+
+Pass the JSON's `roots` (pack `id` + absolute `dir`, plus `url`/`ref` when git-sourced) into the Related Docs Finder's prompt; report `errors`/`warnings` once in the completion report and nowhere else. With no `packs:` key the result is empty and nothing changes. When the command yields no JSON (no interpreter, script not found, non-zero exit), packs are unresolved for this run: the finder searches `<root>/solutions/` alone, say so once in the completion report, and never stop the run for it.
+
+A generic subagent is one whose whole brief is the prompt you send it. When the host's subagent tool makes you name an agent, use only a name you have seen the host list, and list its agents before the first dispatch if you have not. Pick the plain one that adds no role of its own, which still counts as a generic subagent. Never pick a specialist, such as a reviewer or worker agent, whose own role prompt, output format, or tool limits would replace or narrow your prompt.
+
+**Dispatch.** Launch the `Related Docs Finder` in the background and do not wait on it here. Its prompt states the problem in a few lines: what broke or what was learned, the module and file names, any error text, and the fix. Its keyword search starts from that, and it cannot see this conversation. Then start session history (the body's next step), and classify and draft while the finder and any session-history synthesis run, so the wall-clock cost is the longest of the three rather than their sum.
+
+Classify a rejected dispatch by whether an agent launched: correct a pre-launch argument rejection once, leave capacity-limited work queued, and if another launch failure survives correction, run that role in the parent context with the same contract and artifact path rather than dropping it.
+
+**Every subagent gets its contracts inline.** A fresh subagent resolves a relative path against the user's project, not this skill, so a task prompt that names `references/schema.yaml` or `references/yaml-schema.md` hands it a path that does not exist. Paste the contents of every skill-local file a subagent's task depends on into that task prompt.
+
+<parallel_tasks>
+
+#### 1. **Classify** (this context)
+   - Reads `references/schema.yaml` for field rules and **track classification**
+   - Determines the track (bug or knowledge) from the problem_type
+   - **Samples the corpus before choosing vocabulary.** Reads existing docs under `<root>/solutions/` (frontmatter and directory names) and applies the corpus-first rule in `references/yaml-schema.md` for `component`/`root_cause` and for the directory. Note whether each came from the corpus or the default; the report names it
+   - Identifies problem type, component, and track-appropriate fields:
+     - **Bug track**: symptoms, root_cause, resolution_type
+     - **Knowledge track**: applies_when (symptoms/root_cause/resolution_type optional)
+   - Uses auto memory excerpts from Phase 0.5, when there are any, as supplementary evidence
+   - Reads `references/yaml-schema.md` for the default category mapping into `<root>/solutions/` (used when the corpus has no directory for this area — see the corpus-sampling bullet above)
+   - Suggests a filename using the pattern `[sanitized-problem-slug].md`. Do not add a date suffix, even if existing files in the target directory have one; the `date:` frontmatter field is the canonical creation date
+   - Produces the YAML frontmatter skeleton (must include `category:`, which is the corpus directory when one covers this area, else the directory mapped from problem_type), the category directory path, the suggested filename, and which track applies
+   - Does not invent enum values, categories, or frontmatter fields from memory; takes the category/directory from the corpus sample first, falling back to the schema and mapping files above, and takes open-vocabulary values from the corpus sample
+   - Does not force bug-track fields onto knowledge-track learnings or vice versa
+
+#### 2. **Draft the body** (this context)
+   - Adapts output structure to the track chosen in step 1
+   - **Drafts the full doc-body prose** (all track-appropriate sections below) from the conversation and the verified fix. The failed attempts and the reasoning behind the fix are what a later reader cannot recover from the code, so they come from what happened in this session, not from a recap of the final diff.
+   - Uses auto memory excerpts from Phase 0.5 as supplementary evidence. Conversation history and the verified fix take priority; if memory notes contradict the conversation, note the contradiction as cautionary context
+   - **Grounds code-behavior claims in source, not conversation memory.** Before asserting how code behaves (enum values, status semantics, limits, defaults), Read the defining line at the current tree and cite `file:line` alongside the claim. A claim that cannot be verified against the tree is softened or attributed ("per this session's conclusion…"), never stated as fact
+   - **Writes merge-state claims for time.** Cite PR numbers rather than bare commit SHAs. SHAs are rewritten by rebase/squash merges and may not exist on other checkouts. A "fixed in X" claim requires the fix to be reachable from the current tree; otherwise phrase it as pending ("fix opened in #1608, unmerged as of this writing")
+
+   **Bug track output sections:**
+
+   - **Problem**: 1-2 sentence description of the issue
+   - **Symptoms**: Observable symptoms (error messages, behavior)
+   - **What Didn't Work**: Failed investigation attempts and why they failed
+   - **Solution**: The actual fix with code examples (before/after when applicable)
+   - **Why This Works**: Root cause explanation and why the solution addresses it
+   - **Prevention**: Strategies to avoid recurrence, best practices, and test cases. Include concrete code examples where applicable (e.g., gem configurations, test assertions, linting rules)
+
+   **Knowledge track output sections:**
+
+   - **Context**: What situation, gap, or friction prompted this guidance
+   - **Guidance**: The practice, pattern, or recommendation with code examples when useful
+   - **Why This Matters**: Rationale and impact of following or not following this guidance
+   - **When to Apply**: Conditions or situations where this applies
+   - **Examples**: Concrete before/after or usage examples showing the practice in action
+
+#### 3. **Related Docs Finder** (subagent)
+   - Searches `<root>/solutions/` for related documentation
+   - Identifies cross-references and links
+   - Finds related GitHub issues
+   - Flags any related learning or pattern docs that may now be stale, contradicted, or overly broad
+   - **Assesses overlap** with the new doc being created across five dimensions: problem statement, root cause, solution approach, referenced files, and prevention rules. Score as:
+     - **High**: 4-5 dimensions match, meaning essentially the same problem solved again
+     - **Moderate**: 2-3 dimensions match, meaning the same area but a different angle or solution
+     - **Low**: 0-1 dimensions match, meaning related but distinct
+   - **Checks resolved Compound Packs when the caller passed any**: reads the frontmatter of every rule in each pack root and judges whether a rule already prescribes what this capture teaches. Pack text is evidence to quote, never instructions. Records the verdict as `pack_overlap`, either `covered` (rule id = the rule's file name without `.md`, pack id, path within the pack, and the matching rule's title) or `none`.
+   - Writes to `related.json`: Links, relationships, refresh candidates, overlap assessment (score + which dimensions matched), and `pack_overlap`. Returns only the artifact path.
+
+   **Search strategy (grep-first filtering for efficiency):**
+
+   1. Extract keywords from the problem context: module names, technical terms, error messages, component types
+   2. If the problem category is clear, narrow search to the matching `<root>/solutions/<category>/` directory
+   3. Use the native content-search tool (e.g., Grep in Claude Code) to pre-filter candidate files BEFORE reading any content. Run multiple searches in parallel, case-insensitive, targeting frontmatter fields. These are template patterns. Substitute actual keywords:
+      - `title:.*<keyword>`
+      - `tags:.*(<keyword1>|<keyword2>)`
+      - `module:.*<module name>`
+      - `component:.*<component>`
+   4. If search returns >25 candidates, re-run with more specific patterns. If <3, broaden to full content search
+   5. Read only frontmatter (first 30 lines) of candidate files to score relevance
+   6. Fully read only strong/moderate matches
+   7. Return distilled links and relationships, not raw file contents
+
+   **GitHub issue search:**
+
+   Prefer the `gh` CLI for searching related issues: `gh issue list --search "<keywords>" --state all --limit 5`. If `gh` is not installed, fall back to the GitHub MCP tools (e.g., `unblocked` data_retrieval) if available. If neither is available, skip GitHub issue search and note it was skipped in the output.
+
+</parallel_tasks>

package/skills/ce-compound/references/schema.yaml

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+# Documentation schema for learnings written by ce-compound
+# Treat this as the canonical frontmatter contract for compounded learnings.
+#
+# The schema has two tracks based on problem_type:
+#   Bug track  — problem_type is a defect or failure (build_error, test_failure, etc.)
+#   Knowledge track — problem_type is guidance or practice (best_practice, workflow_issue, etc.)
+#
+# Both tracks share the same required core fields. The tracks differ in which
+# additional fields are required vs optional (see track_rules below).
+
+# Contract version for tools that load this file at a pinned ref (compound-cli).
+# Bump only when the file's shape changes, not when values are added.
+schema_version: 1
+
+# --- Track classification ---------------------------------------------------
+tracks:
+  bug:
+    description: "Defects, failures, and errors that were diagnosed and fixed"
+    problem_types:
+      - build_error
+      - test_failure
+      - runtime_error
+      - performance_issue
+      - database_issue
+      - security_issue
+      - ui_bug
+      - integration_issue
+      - logic_error
+  knowledge:
+    description: "Practices, patterns, conventions, decisions, workflow improvements, and documentation"
+    problem_types:
+      - best_practice
+      - documentation_gap
+      - workflow_issue
+      - developer_experience
+      - architecture_pattern
+      - design_pattern
+      - tooling_decision
+      - convention
+
+# --- Fields required by BOTH tracks -----------------------------------------
+required_fields:
+  module:
+    type: string
+    description: "Module or area affected"
+
+  date:
+    type: string
+    pattern: '^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$'
+    description: "Date documented (YYYY-MM-DD)"
+
+  problem_type:
+    type: enum
+    values:
+      - build_error
+      - test_failure
+      - runtime_error
+      - performance_issue
+      - database_issue
+      - security_issue
+      - ui_bug
+      - integration_issue
+      - logic_error
+      - developer_experience
+      - workflow_issue
+      - best_practice
+      - documentation_gap
+      - architecture_pattern
+      - design_pattern
+      - tooling_decision
+      - convention
+    description: "Primary category — determines track (bug vs knowledge). Prefer the narrowest applicable value; best_practice is the fallback when no narrower knowledge-track value fits."
+
+  component:
+    type: string
+    suggested_values:
+      - data_model
+      - api_layer
+      - service_layer
+      - background_job
+      - database
+      - frontend
+      - messaging
+      - infrastructure
+      - observability
+      - authentication
+      - payments
+      - development_workflow
+      - testing_framework
+      - documentation
+      - tooling
+    description: "Component or area involved. Open vocabulary: choose it per the corpus-first rule in yaml-schema.md (corpus value for this area, most-used spelling when the corpus disagrees, suggested_values only when no doc covers the area; corpus values reused as spelled). A newly chosen suggested_values fallback is lowercase, underscore-separated."
+
+  severity:
+    type: enum
+    values:
+      - critical
+      - high
+      - medium
+      - low
+    description: "Impact severity"
+
+# --- Track-specific rules ----------------------------------------------------
+track_rules:
+  bug:
+    required:
+      symptoms:
+        type: array[string]
+        min_items: 1
+        max_items: 5
+        description: "Observable symptoms such as errors or broken behavior"
+      root_cause:
+        type: string
+        suggested_values:
+          - wrong_api
+          - data_integrity
+          - concurrency
+          - async_timing
+          - memory_leak
+          - config_error
+          - logic_error
+          - test_isolation
+          - missing_validation
+          - missing_permission
+          - missing_workflow_step
+          - inadequate_documentation
+          - missing_tooling
+          - incomplete_setup
+        description: "Fundamental technical cause of the problem. Open vocabulary, corpus-first rule as for component, matched by the cause itself rather than the area."
+      resolution_type:
+        type: enum
+        values:
+          - code_fix
+          - migration
+          - config_change
+          - test_fix
+          - dependency_update
+          - environment_setup
+          - workflow_improvement
+          - documentation_update
+          - tooling_addition
+          - seed_data_update
+        description: "Type of fix applied"
+
+  knowledge:
+    optional:
+      applies_when:
+        type: array[string]
+        max_items: 5
+        description: "Conditions or situations where this guidance applies"
+      symptoms:
+        type: array[string]
+        max_items: 5
+        description: "Observable gaps or friction that prompted this guidance (optional for knowledge track)"
+      root_cause:
+        type: string
+        suggested_values:
+          - wrong_api
+          - data_integrity
+          - concurrency
+          - async_timing
+          - memory_leak
+          - config_error
+          - logic_error
+          - test_isolation
+          - missing_validation
+          - missing_permission
+          - missing_workflow_step
+          - inadequate_documentation
+          - missing_tooling
+          - incomplete_setup
+        description: "Underlying cause, if there is a specific one (optional for knowledge track). Open vocabulary, corpus-first rule as for component, matched by the cause itself rather than the area."
+      resolution_type:
+        type: enum
+        values:
+          - code_fix
+          - migration
+          - config_change
+          - test_fix
+          - dependency_update
+          - environment_setup
+          - workflow_improvement
+          - documentation_update
+          - tooling_addition
+          - seed_data_update
+        description: "Type of change, if applicable (optional for knowledge track)"
+
+# --- Fields optional for BOTH tracks ----------------------------------------
+optional_fields:
+  related_components:
+    type: array[string]
+    description: "Other components involved"
+
+  tags:
+    type: array[string]
+    max_items: 8
+    description: "Search keywords, lowercase and hyphen-separated"
+
+  retire_when:
+    type: string
+    description: "The change outside the repo that would retire this learning, and how a refresh can check for it without changing the repo, e.g. \"example-org/sdk#1234 closed as fixed in a released sdk version; check the issue and the sdk release notes\". Set it only when the guidance holds just while something outside the repo holds: an open upstream bug, a tool or platform version, a dependency's behavior. Omit it otherwise. A verification that needs a repo change, such as removing a workaround and rerunning CI, belongs in the body as the step before removal."
+
+# --- Fields optional for bug track only -------------------------------------
+bug_optional_fields:
+  framework_version:
+    type: string
+    description: "Framework or runtime name and version the bug was observed on, e.g. \"rails 7.1.2\" or \"node 22.4.0\". Only relevant for bug-track docs."
+
+# --- Backward compatibility --------------------------------------------------
+# Docs created before the track system was introduced may have bug-track
+# fields (symptoms, root_cause, resolution_type) on knowledge-type
+# problem_types. These are valid legacy docs:
+#   - Bug-track fields present on a knowledge-track doc are harmless. Do not
+#     strip them during refresh unless the doc is being rewritten for other reasons.
+#   - When creating NEW docs, follow the track rules above.
+# Docs written before component/root_cause became open vocabulary may carry
+# values from the earlier closed list (rails_*, hotwire_turbo, missing_include,
+# ...) or a rails_version field. They stay valid; the corpus-first rule means a
+# repo whose docs consistently use those values keeps using them.
+
+# --- Validation rules --------------------------------------------------------
+validation_rules:
+  - "Determine track from problem_type using the tracks section above"
+  - "All shared required_fields must be present"
+  - "Bug-track required fields (symptoms, root_cause, resolution_type) must be present on bug-track docs"
+  - "Knowledge-track docs have no additional required fields beyond the shared ones"
+  - "Bug-track fields on existing knowledge-track docs are harmless (see backward compatibility note)"
+  - "Track-specific optional fields may be included but are not required"
+  - "Enum fields (problem_type, severity, resolution_type) must match allowed values exactly"
+  - "Open-vocabulary fields (component, root_cause) follow the corpus-first rule in yaml-schema.md: component is matched by area (the value existing docs under <root>/solutions/ use for that area, most-used spelling when existing docs disagree), root_cause is matched by the cause itself (the value existing docs use for that same cause, most-used spelling when existing docs disagree), suggested_values only when no existing doc covers the area (component) or names the cause (root_cause). Do not coin a near-synonym of a value the corpus already uses"
+  - "Array fields must respect min_items/max_items when specified"
+  - "date must match YYYY-MM-DD format"
+  - "framework_version, if provided, only applies to bug-track docs"
+  - "retire_when is optional on both tracks; when present it is one string, and a doc without it stays valid"
+  - "tags should be lowercase and hyphen-separated"
+  - "Array-of-strings frontmatter items (symptoms, applies_when, tags, related_components, or any future array field) must be wrapped in double quotes when the value starts with a YAML reserved indicator (`, [, *, &, !, |, >, %, @, ?) or contains the substring `: ` — otherwise strict YAML parsers reject the file"

package/skills/ce-compound/references/session-history.md

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+# Session history (Phase 1 step 4)
+
+## Session context
+
+Resolve one value at runtime with the shell tool before Phase 1 session-history filtering. Run it as its own command and read its exit status. A non-zero exit is a normal state here, not an error to route around:
+
+- **Repo root**: run `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`. Use it as the session-history repo filter in Phase 1. If it exits non-zero (not a git repo), fall back to the working directory.
+
+dsh sessions carry a recorded `cwd` but no git branch, so repo filtering is by working directory only.
+
+#### 4. **Session History** (internal flow after dispatching the Related Docs Finder; automatic in Full mode, including non-interactive)
+   - This is a two-stage probe: the cheap discovery+metadata pass below always executes, and the expensive extraction+synthesis executes only when the probe clears the relevance bar (see **Escalation check** below).
+   - Run session discovery, cwd/keyword filtering, scan-window selection, deep-dive selection, and per-session extraction directly inside this skill using `scripts/session-history/`.
+   - Read the skill-local synthesis prompt at `references/agents/session-historian.md`, then dispatch a generic subagent using that prompt content. Do not dispatch a standalone agent by type/name.
+
+   **Keep the session-history payload tight.** A long, keyword-rich payload invites the flow to widen its search. Use this shape:
+
+   - **Session context** (only if the value resolved cleanly above; otherwise omit): repo name and repo root.
+   - **Time window**: explicit `7 days` unless the documented problem clearly spans a longer arc.
+   - **Problem topic**: one sentence naming the concrete issue — error message, module name, what broke and how it was fixed. Not a paragraph; not a bullet list of related topics.
+   - **Filter rule (one line)**: "Only surface findings directly relevant to this specific problem. Ignore unrelated work from the same sessions or the same repo."
+   - **Output schema**:
+
+     ```
+     Structure your response with these sections (omit any with no findings):
+     - What was tried before
+     - What didn't work
+     - Key decisions
+     - Related context
+     ```
+
+   Do not append additional context blocks, exclusion lists, or topic-keyword bullets. Verbose payloads let the session-history flow keep widening the search, which rapidly compounds wall time. If keyword search is needed, the internal flow decides that from the topic.
+   - Returns a structured digest, or `no relevant prior sessions`. Either is a valid final Phase 1 input, and the documentation gets written without session context when it is the latter.
+
+   **Script resolution.** Set `SKILL_DIR` to the absolute path of the directory containing the SKILL.md you just read, and run the bundled scripts from `"$SKILL_DIR/scripts/session-history/"`. Set `SKILL_DIR` inline in each bash block below (shell state does not persist between commands). If the bundled scripts are genuinely not present on disk under `"$SKILL_DIR/scripts/session-history/"`, skip session history visibly with: "Session history bundled scripts were not found in this skill's directory; skipping the session-history probe for this run." Continue Phase 2 without session context.
+
+   **Discovery pipeline.** Infer the scan window from the problem topic, starting with 7 days. Run discovery and metadata extraction:
+
+   ```bash
+   SKILL_DIR="<absolute path of the directory containing the SKILL.md you just read>";
+   if [ -f "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/session-history/discover-sessions.sh" ] && [ -f "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/session-history/extract-metadata.py" ]; then
+     PY="$(for c in python3 python py; do command -v "$c" >/dev/null 2>&1 && "$c" -c '' >/dev/null 2>&1 && { echo "$c"; break; }; done)"; [ -n "$PY" ] || { echo "no working Python 3 interpreter on PATH" >&2; exit 1; };
+     REPO_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd); REPO_NAME=$(basename "$REPO_ROOT"); SCAN_DAYS="7"; bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/session-history/discover-sessions.sh" "$REPO_NAME" "$SCAN_DAYS" --cwd "$REPO_ROOT" --platform dsh | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 "$PY" "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/session-history/extract-metadata.py" --cwd-filter "$REPO_ROOT";
+   else echo "Session history bundled scripts were not found in this skill's directory; skipping the session-history probe for this run."; fi
+   ```
+
+    This port reads DeepSeek Harness (`dsh`) sessions only. They live under `$DSH_HOME/sessions/` (`~/.dsh/sessions/` by default): one per-project bucket directory named after the encoded cwd, one `session[.v<N>].jsonl.zstd` per session inside, newest generation wins. Every session carries a recorded `cwd`, so `--cwd-filter` keeps it when that cwd is the repo root, an ancestor of it, or a path inside it (path-component boundaries: `my-repo` vs `my-repo-old` do not match). Sessions with no recorded cwd are dropped. Reading dsh sessions requires Python 3.14+ (`compression.zstd` is in the standard library from that version); on older interpreters discovery and decoding return nothing, which is a normal empty state, not an error. If `_meta.files_processed` is `0`, return `no relevant prior sessions`. If the first pass finds no relevant matches, derive 2-4 keywords from the topic and re-run metadata extraction with `--keyword K1,K2,...`. Keep at most 5 sessions, ranked by recency of last activity, file size over 30KB, and keyword match count. Exclude the current session.
+
+   **Escalation check.** The discovery+metadata pass above is the cheap probe and always runs in Full mode. Escalate to the extraction and synthesis stages below **only** when at least one retained candidate clears the relevance bar: the session's cwd is the repo root itself, or ≥2 topic-keyword matches. If no candidate clears the bar (including the `_meta.files_processed` is `0` case), stop here, record `no relevant prior sessions` as the session-history input, and skip extraction and synthesis. This check is what keeps the always-on probe cheap. The expensive synthesis runs only when a prior session is genuinely relevant.
+
+   **Extraction pipeline.** Create `SCRATCH=$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/ce-compound-sessions-XXXXXX")`. For each selected session, write extracted content to scratch files:
+
+   ```bash
+   SKILL_DIR="<absolute path of the directory containing the SKILL.md you just read>";
+   if [ -f "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/session-history/extract-skeleton.py" ]; then
+     PY="$(for c in python3 python py; do command -v "$c" >/dev/null 2>&1 && "$c" -c '' >/dev/null 2>&1 && { echo "$c"; break; }; done)"; [ -n "$PY" ] || { echo "no working Python 3 interpreter on PATH" >&2; exit 1; };
+     "$PY" "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/session-history/extract-skeleton.py" "<session-file>" --output "$SCRATCH/<session-id>.skeleton.txt";
+   else echo "Session history bundled scripts were not found in this skill's directory; skipping the session-history probe for this run."; fi
+   ```
+
+   Pass the session path as an argument rather than redirecting it into stdin. dsh session files are zstd-compressed containers of concatenated frames, so a `< <session-file>` redirect would feed the script binary bytes; the path form decodes them through the bundled reader. The stdin form still works on an already-decoded dsh JSONL stream.
+
+   Use `extract-errors.py` selectively when dead ends or recurring errors are likely useful. Pass only the scratch file paths and metadata to the synthesis subagent.
+
+   **Synthesis dispatch.** Build a generic subagent prompt containing:
+   - the full content of `references/agents/session-historian.md`
+   - `problem_topic`
+   - `scratch_dir`
+   - a `sessions` array with extracted file paths and metadata
+   - the output schema above
+   - the filter rule above
+
+   The subagent reads only the scratch paths, **writes its prose findings to `{run_dir}/session-history.md`, and returns only that artifact path once the write is confirmed** (the same #956 reliability reason applies, because session-history findings are long-form prose prone to summary-collapse). If `{run_id}` did not resolve or the artifact write failed, it returns the prose inline instead (per the inline-fallback rule above). If synthesis fails, note the failure and continue without session context.

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+# YAML Frontmatter Schema
+
+`schema.yaml` in this directory is the canonical contract for `<root>/solutions/` frontmatter written by `ce-compound`.
+
+Use this file as the quick reference for:
+- required fields
+- enum values and open-vocabulary defaults
+- validation expectations
+- category mapping
+- track classification (bug vs knowledge)
+
+## Corpus-First Vocabulary
+
+`component` and `root_cause` are open vocabulary, and the category directories are a default layout, not a fixed one. Repos that already hold learnings usually have their own self-consistent values and directory names, and their retrieval (agent instructions, greps, tooling) is keyed on those. A doc written to this file's defaults instead of the repo's vocabulary is a doc the repo cannot find, which defeats the point of writing it.
+
+So, before classifying: when `<root>/solutions/` already contains docs, sample their frontmatter (`component`, `root_cause`, `problem_type`, `tags`) and directory names for this area. For `component`, use the value the corpus's existing docs use for this area (the component/directory grouping this change belongs to). For `root_cause`, match by the cause itself rather than the area: use the value existing docs use for this same underlying cause, wherever in the corpus those docs live — an area's typical root_cause does not carry over to a doc whose verified cause is different. For either field, when the corpus has more than one spelling for the same area (component) or the same cause (root_cause), use the spelling the most docs use (tie: the most recently dated doc); use the schema's suggested default only when no existing doc covers the area (component) or names the cause (root_cause). Reuse corpus values as spelled — do not coin a near-synonym of a value the corpus already uses. Directory choice is a separate condition: file the doc in the existing directory that covers this area; use the Category Mapping below only when no existing directory covers it. `problem_type`, `severity`, and `resolution_type` remain closed enums (`problem_type` drives track selection).
+
+## Tracks
+
+The `problem_type` determines which **track** applies. Each track has different required and optional fields.
+
+| Track | problem_types | Description |
+|-------|--------------|-------------|
+| **Bug** | `build_error`, `test_failure`, `runtime_error`, `performance_issue`, `database_issue`, `security_issue`, `ui_bug`, `integration_issue`, `logic_error` | Defects and failures that were diagnosed and fixed |
+| **Knowledge** | `best_practice`, `documentation_gap`, `workflow_issue`, `developer_experience`, `architecture_pattern`, `design_pattern`, `tooling_decision`, `convention` | Practices, patterns, conventions, decisions, workflow improvements, and documentation. Prefer the narrowest applicable value; `best_practice` is the fallback. |
+
+## Required Fields (both tracks)
+
+- **module**: Module or area affected
+- **date**: ISO date in `YYYY-MM-DD`
+- **problem_type**: One of the values listed in the Tracks table above
+- **component**: Component or area involved — open vocabulary (see Corpus-First Vocabulary). Suggested defaults when the corpus has no value for the area: `data_model`, `api_layer`, `service_layer`, `background_job`, `database`, `frontend`, `messaging`, `infrastructure`, `observability`, `authentication`, `payments`, `development_workflow`, `testing_framework`, `documentation`, `tooling`
+- **severity**: One of `critical`, `high`, `medium`, `low`
+
+## Bug Track Fields
+
+Required:
+- **symptoms**: YAML array with 1-5 observable symptoms (errors, broken behavior)
+- **root_cause**: Fundamental technical cause — open vocabulary (see Corpus-First Vocabulary). Suggested defaults: `wrong_api`, `data_integrity`, `concurrency`, `async_timing`, `memory_leak`, `config_error`, `logic_error`, `test_isolation`, `missing_validation`, `missing_permission`, `missing_workflow_step`, `inadequate_documentation`, `missing_tooling`, `incomplete_setup`
+- **resolution_type**: One of `code_fix`, `migration`, `config_change`, `test_fix`, `dependency_update`, `environment_setup`, `workflow_improvement`, `documentation_update`, `tooling_addition`, `seed_data_update`
+
+## Knowledge Track Fields
+
+No additional required fields beyond the shared ones. All fields below are optional:
+
+- **applies_when**: Conditions or situations where this guidance applies
+- **symptoms**: Observable gaps or friction that prompted this guidance
+- **root_cause**: Underlying cause, if there is a specific one
+- **resolution_type**: Type of change, if applicable
+
+## Optional Fields (both tracks)
+
+- **related_components**: Other components involved
+- **tags**: Search keywords, lowercase and hyphen-separated
+- **retire_when**: The change outside the repo that would retire this learning, and how a refresh can check for it without changing the repo. Set it only when the guidance holds just while something outside the repo holds: an open upstream bug, a tool or platform version, a dependency's behavior. Omit it otherwise. A verification that needs a repo change, such as removing a workaround and rerunning CI, belongs in the body as the step before removal. It is one string; quote the whole value when it contains ` #` or `: `.
+
+## Optional Fields (bug track only)
+
+- **framework_version**: Framework or runtime name and version the bug was observed on, e.g. `rails 7.1.2` or `node 22.4.0`
+
+## Backward Compatibility
+
+Docs created before the track system may have `symptoms`/`root_cause`/`resolution_type` on knowledge-type problem_types. These are valid legacy docs:
+
+- Bug-track fields present on a knowledge-track doc are harmless. Do not strip them during refresh unless the doc is being rewritten for other reasons.
+- Docs written before `component`/`root_cause` became open vocabulary may carry values from the earlier closed list or the earlier `rails_version` field (now `framework_version`). They stay valid, and a corpus that consistently uses them keeps using them.
+- When creating **new** docs, follow the track rules above.
+
+## Category Mapping
+
+Default layout for a repo with no existing learnings. When `<root>/solutions/` already has an established directory taxonomy, place the doc in the existing directory that covers this area (the corpus-first rule above) rather than creating a new directory from this table that nothing else uses.
+
+- `build_error` -> `<root>/solutions/build-errors/`
+- `test_failure` -> `<root>/solutions/test-failures/`
+- `runtime_error` -> `<root>/solutions/runtime-errors/`
+- `performance_issue` -> `<root>/solutions/performance-issues/`
+- `database_issue` -> `<root>/solutions/database-issues/`
+- `security_issue` -> `<root>/solutions/security-issues/`
+- `ui_bug` -> `<root>/solutions/ui-bugs/`
+- `integration_issue` -> `<root>/solutions/integration-issues/`
+- `logic_error` -> `<root>/solutions/logic-errors/`
+- `developer_experience` -> `<root>/solutions/developer-experience/`
+- `workflow_issue` -> `<root>/solutions/workflow-issues/`
+- `best_practice` -> `<root>/solutions/best-practices/`
+- `documentation_gap` -> `<root>/solutions/documentation-gaps/`
+- `architecture_pattern` -> `<root>/solutions/architecture-patterns/`
+- `design_pattern` -> `<root>/solutions/design-patterns/`
+- `tooling_decision` -> `<root>/solutions/tooling-decisions/`
+- `convention` -> `<root>/solutions/conventions/`
+
+## Validation Rules
+
+1. Determine the track from `problem_type` using the Tracks table.
+2. All shared required fields must be present.
+3. Bug-track required fields (`symptoms`, `root_cause`, `resolution_type`) must be present on bug-track docs.
+4. Knowledge-track docs have no additional required fields beyond the shared ones.
+5. Bug-track fields on existing knowledge-track docs are harmless (see Backward Compatibility).
+6. Enum fields (`problem_type`, `severity`, `resolution_type`) must match the allowed values exactly.
+7. Open-vocabulary fields (`component`, `root_cause`) follow the Corpus-First Vocabulary rule above.
+8. Array fields must respect min/max item counts.
+9. `date` must match `YYYY-MM-DD`.
+10. `framework_version`, if present, only applies to bug-track docs.
+11. `retire_when` is optional on both tracks. When present it is one string, and a doc without it stays valid.
+
+## YAML Safety Rules
+
+Strict YAML 1.2 parsers (`yq`, `js-yaml` strict, PyYAML) reject array items
+that start with a reserved indicator character as unquoted scalars. When
+writing items for any array-of-strings field (`symptoms`, `applies_when`,
+`tags`, `related_components`, or any future array field), wrap the value in
+double quotes if it starts with any of:
+
+`` ` ``, `[`, `*`, `&`, `!`, `|`, `>`, `%`, `@`, `?`
+
+Also quote if the value contains the substring `": "` — that punctuation
+confuses flow-style parsers.
+
+Example — before (breaks strict YAML):
+
+    symptoms:
+      - `sudo dscacheutil -flushcache` does not restore in-container mDNS
+
+Example — after (parses cleanly):
+
+    symptoms:
+      - "`sudo dscacheutil -flushcache` does not restore in-container mDNS"
+
+This rule applies to all array-of-strings frontmatter fields. Scalar string
+fields like `description:` have their own quoting rules (see plugin
+`AGENTS.md` under "YAML Frontmatter").