| name | devloop-standup |
| description | Use when asked to summarize recent repo activity, show what happened, or give a timeline view of work — with or without a time window argument |
Devloop Standup
Runs devloop council analysis + git log to produce a narrative timeline of recent repo activity.
When to Use
- User asks "what happened?", "show me the timeline", "what did we do today?"
- User invokes this skill directly (e.g.
/devloop-standup or /devloop-standup 48h)
- Default window: 24 hours
Argument Parsing
The skill accepts an optional time argument: 1h, 6h, 24h, 48h, 7d, etc.
Parse from the invocation args. If absent, use 24h. Convert to git --since value:
24h → --since="24 hours ago"7d → --since="7 days ago"2h → --since="2 hours ago"
Steps
1. Get commits in window
git log --format="%ad %s" --date=format:"%H:%M" --since="24 hours ago"
Group by rough time-of-day block: Early morning (00–06), Morning (06–12), Afternoon (12–17), Evening (17–21), Late evening (21–24).
1b. (Optional) Refresh gkg index
If the standup covers structural changes (new crates, major refactors), freshen the knowledge graph first:
gkg index /path/to/repo
2. Run devloop council analysis
export OPENAI_API_KEY=$(grep ^OPENAI_API_KEY ~/.secrets | cut -d= -f2)
~/.local/bin/devloop analyze --council --council-mode extensive --repo /path/to/repo
Use the council's summary, patterns, and recommendations as the analytical backbone. If the council flags specific work as a "saga" or investigation, name it.
3. Synthesize narrative output
Write in this style — narrative, not structured report:
Single branch (main), N commits, X sessions.
All work on YYYY-MM-DD:
- **Morning (HH:MM–HH:MM):** [what happened, what was built/fixed, what was the arc]
- **Afternoon (HH:MM–HH:MM):** [...]
- **Evening (HH:MM–HH:MM):** [...]
- **Late evening (HH:MM–HH:MM):** [name the saga if there was one — e.g. "cgroup debugging saga"]
[1-sentence close: what the session ended with / the outcome]
Rules:
- Time blocks only if there's activity in them (skip empty blocks)
- Name recurring themes or sagas (don't just list commits)
- End with the resolution or current state
- Keep it to ~10 lines total — dense > verbose
- If multiple days: group by day first, then time blocks within
Writing to Daily Note
To record the standup in the Obsidian vault, use devloop-daily-update skill after synthesis.
OPENAI_API_KEY Note
source ~/.secrets doesn't export — use the explicit export form above.
Example Output
Single branch (main), 52 commits, 3 sessions.
All work on 2026-03-16:
- Early morning (00:54–07:48): Hexagonal architecture refactor in 5 phases — domain traits, adapters, DI in handlers, mock tests, conformance suite. Cross-platform adapters for Windows/macOS/GKE added.
- Afternoon (13:46–16:57): GKE unprivileged adapter suite, Zombienet pattern analysis, RuntimeCapabilities trait, state persistence across daemon restarts.
- Evening (16:35–18:57): Ops runtime — VPS setup, systemd unit, install script, Justfile. Cgroup debugging began: controllers not delegating.
- Late evening (21:31–23:01): Cgroup delegation saga — chased DelegateSubgroup=yes/supervisor confusion, diagnosed no-internal-processes constraint, fixed with supervisor leaf cgroup pattern. Confirmed
minibox run alpine -- /bin/true working.
Session closed clean: all commits pushed, cgroup fix verified on VPS.
