| name | extract-insights |
| description | Extract unique insights and perspectives from personal content (conversations, transcripts, notes). Spawns insight-extractor subagent. |
| allowed-tools | ["Task"] |
| user-invocable | true |
| arg-description | <file path or content description> |
Extract Insights
Extract unique insights, original thinking, and distinctive perspectives from YOUR content.
Purpose
User-invocable wrapper that spawns the insight-extractor subagent to:
- Extract personal theories, contrarian views, synthesis insights
- Preserve authentic voice and reasoning patterns
- Handle large files via chunking
- Deduplicate against existing knowledge base
- Save to
Brain/AI Extracted Notes/
When to Use
- Extracting insights from YOUR conversations, transcripts, journals
- Processing personal notes or reflections
- Capturing your unique perspectives from recorded content
NOT for external research - use /extract-document-insights for papers, books, articles.
Usage
/extract-insights /path/to/transcript.md
/extract-insights "the conversation above about dopamine"
Process
- Parse arguments to identify source content
- Spawn insight-extractor subagent via Task tool with:
Task(
subagent_type="insight-extractor",
prompt="Extract insights from: [source]. Follow your mandatory workflow - contextualize, search for duplicates, extract, create notes, update changelog."
)
- Report results - number of insights extracted, notes created
Outputs
- Permanent notes in
Brain/AI Extracted Notes/
- Session changelog in
Brain/05-Meta/Changelogs/
- Summary of extracted insights
