| name | meditate |
| description | Audit and evolve the brain vault — prune outdated content, discover cross-cutting principles, review skills for structural encoding opportunities. Triggers: "meditate", "audit the brain", "prune brain", "review skills", "consolidate notes", "prune notes". |
| schedule | Standalone single-stage order after several reflect cycles have accumulated. Expensive — don't over-schedule. |
Meditate
Autonomous Session Mode
When running non-interactively (Cook, Oops, Repair):
- Apply all high-confidence changes autonomously. For ambiguous or risky changes (brain file deletions, principle rewrites), file a todo instead.
- Commit all changes with the
/commit skill.
Quality bar: A note earns its place by being high-signal (Claude would reliably get this wrong without it), high-frequency (comes up in most sessions or most tasks of a type), or high-impact (getting it wrong causes significant damage or wasted work). Everything else is noise. A lean, precise brain outperforms a comprehensive but bloated one.
Process
Use Tasks to track progress (TaskCreate per step, TaskUpdate to in_progress/completed).
1. Build snapshots
sh <skill-path>/scripts/snapshot.sh brain/ /tmp/brain-snapshot.md
sh <skill-path>/scripts/snapshot.sh .agents/skills/ /tmp/skills-snapshot.md
Files are delimited with === path/to/file.md === headers. Also locate the auto-memory directory (~/.claude/projects/<project>/memory/).
2. Auditor (blocking — its report feeds step 3)
Spawn general-purpose subagent. See references/agents.md § Auditor for the full prompt spec. Inputs: brain snapshot, auto-memory path, CLAUDE.md path.
Audits brain notes, CLAUDE.md, and auto-memory for staleness, redundancy, low-value content, verbosity, and orphans. Returns a categorized report.
Early-exit gate: If the auditor finds fewer than 3 actionable items, skip step 3 and go directly to step 4.
3. Reviewer (after auditor completes)
Spawn one general-purpose subagent. See references/agents.md § Reviewer for the full prompt spec. Inputs: brain snapshot, skills snapshot, auditor report, brain/principles.md.
Combines three concerns in a single pass:
- Synthesis: Proposes missing wikilinks, flags principle tensions, suggests clarifications.
- Distillation: Identifies recurring patterns that reveal unstated principles. New principles must be (1) independent, (2) evidenced by 2+ notes, (3) actionable.
- Skill review: Cross-references skills against brain principles. Finds contradictions, missed structural enforcement, redundant instructions. Audits description frontmatters for context bloat.
4. Review reports
Present the user with a consolidated summary. See references/agents.md § Report Template for the format.
5. Route skill-specific learnings
Check all reports for findings that belong in skill files, not brain/. Update the skill's SKILL.md or references/ directly. Read the skill first to avoid duplication.
6. Apply changes
Apply all changes directly. The user reviews the diff.
- Outdated notes: Update or delete
- Redundant notes: Merge into the stronger note, delete the weaker
- Low-value notes: Delete
- Verbose notes: Condense in place
- New connections: Add
[[wikilinks]]
- Tensions: Reword to clarify boundaries
- New principles: Only from the distillation section, only if genuinely independent. Write brain files and update
brain/principles.md
- Merge principles: Look for principles that are subsets or specific applications of each other — merge the narrower into the broader and pick a name that captures the combined insight
- Bloated skill descriptions: Tighten frontmatter descriptions — cut what Claude can infer, keep only distinctive triggers and purpose
- CLAUDE.md issues: Rewrite or delete
- Stale memories: Delete or rewrite
7. Housekeep
Clean stale .noodle/ state (old debates, completed sessions, stale plan artifacts). Update brain/index.md for any files added or removed.
Summary
## Meditate Summary
- Pruned: [N notes deleted, M condensed, K merged]
- Extracted: [N new principles, with one-line + evidence count each]
- Skill review: [N findings, M applied]
- Housekeep: [state files cleaned]
