close-of-day

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name: close-of-day description: Run a daily end-of-day sweep: refresh situation notes, back up state, clean low-value timeline traffic, and run the daily-notes summarisation flow before declaring the day closed. distribution: private

Close of Day

One-shot daily maintenance for:

1. generating a situation report
2. optionally backing up state before cleanup
3. cleaning low-value timeline traffic
4. updating daily notes in the same task

Workflow

This skill runs:

• /workspace/scripts/situate.ts with --update-notes
• optional restic backup (/workspace/.piclaw/restic/backup.sh) before cleanup
• timeline cleanup groups covering reloads, compaction, greetings, slash-command chatter, command responses, one-word acknowledgements, transitions, version/build/git noise, and similar low-value traffic
• the situate-daily-notes workflow immediately afterwards for a full close-of-day run

Use the messages tool for cleanup and summarisation where available:

• search + delete for cleanup candidate discovery/removal
• search + get for daily-note summarisation work

For web:*, the session scope includes all web session trees (root chats plus branches), not just the currently visible tab.

Usage

bun run /workspace/.pi/skills/close-of-day/close-of-day.ts \
  --days 1 \
  --chat-jid web:default \
  --report /workspace/exports/close-of-day.md \
  --cleanup

Common modes

• --dry-run — preview cleanup only (default behaviour for deletion)
• --apply — perform deletions
• --include-media — allow deletion of messages with attachments
• --skip-backup — skip restic backup
• --situate-only — generate/update the situation report only; this is not a full close-of-day run
• --cleanup-only — run cleanup only; this is not a full close-of-day run

Flags

• --days <n> — how many days to include in the situation report and cleanup search window
• --since <iso8601> — override window start for cleanup
• --chat-jid <jid> — target chat context (default web:default)
• --report <path> — report path (default /workspace/exports/close-of-day-<DATE>.md)
• --include-media — delete messages that still have attachments
• --skip-backup — skip restic backup
• --backup-cmd <command> — override backup command
• --situate-only — skip cleanup and daily-note completion
• --cleanup-only — skip situate and daily-note completion

Completion criteria

Do not report “day closed” until all of the following are done:

1. situation report generated
2. backup run, unless explicitly skipped
3. cleanup run
4. /workspace/.pi/skills/situate-daily-notes/SKILL.md followed and the relevant daily notes updated in the same task

If you use --situate-only or --cleanup-only, treat the run as a partial maintenance pass, not as a completed close-of-day.

Behaviour

• cleanup defaults to dry-run so counts can be reviewed first
• attachment-bearing threads are skipped unless --include-media is set
• when web:* session trees diverged, preserve branch separation in the resulting daily summaries instead of blending them together
• the generated close-of-day report is an intermediate working artifact for the daily-notes phase

Output artifacts

Expect these to remain consistent after a full run:

• notes/daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md
• notes/daily/*.agent.json
• notes/memory/current-state.md
• notes/memory/recent-context.md
• notes/memory/MEMORY.md

For ad-hoc cleanup groups without the daily-note workflow, use timeline-cleanup directly.