| name | postmortem-agent-task |
| description | Propose Cortex self-lessons after agent work without silently changing permissions, values, or autonomy. |
Postmortem Agent Task
Use this skill after meaningful agent work, especially when the task involved a
failure, correction, repeated pattern, missing context, wrong tool choice, or
successful workflow worth preserving.
Workflow
- Summarize the outcome in neutral, evidence-backed terms.
- Identify whether the lesson is about retrieval, context templates, tool
choice, failure checklists, user preferences, safety filters, or evaluation.
- Call
self_lesson.propose when the lesson is useful and scoped.
- Keep the proposal candidate-only. Promotion requires explicit review.
- Use
self_lesson.review_queue or self_lesson.review_flow for later user
inspection when review is required.
Guardrails
- Self-lessons can improve methods, not permissions, values, boundaries, or
autonomy.
- Do not copy private task text, secrets, raw evidence, or long source content
into a self-lesson.
- Scope narrowly: project-specific beats global when the lesson came from one
repo or one workflow.
- Include source refs and confidence, and make rollback conditions visible.
Load references/memory_policy.md when deciding whether a lesson may influence
future context packs.
