End-of-day closing routine. Quick mode by default (v4.6+) — runs cortex auto-commit, reflective prompts, brief pre-stage, memory-index refresh, and close in 30 seconds to 3 minutes. Heavy steps (inbox triage, transcript review, mining of non-transcript sources) only run in `/end-day --full`, or when auto-offered because the day actually had transcripts (≥2) or inbox volume (≥5). Auto-fires on "/end-day", "wrapping up", "calling it a day", "done for today", "end of day", "closing out today". Quick mode is the default for every trigger; the user passes `--full` or accepts the auto-offer prompt to get the full chain. Reflection (Step 4) appends a `## Reflection` section to today's brief markdown — what tomorrow's `/brief` reads — AND to a longitudinal `memory/reflections.md` store (v4.13+). v4.13+ additions (End-Day Routine Improvement Spec): a per-source consent + cost gate (Step 0.7, Today's Brief required & first); Step 2c mines the brief artifact (task/outreach actions → memory write-backs + suppression lear
Natural-language entrypoint for cross-artifact drift detection. Fires when the user has just made a meaningful change to a node (status flip, reframe, engagement wound down) and says "check the linked nodes," "sync linked artifacts," "make sure the related stuff is consistent," or similar. Resolves the source node from recent edit or context, then routes to /sync-linked-entities.
Retroactive wikilink pass over `<config-root>/memory/`. Scans every node file for plain-text mentions of known entities (people / clients / topics / workstreams / companies / domains), proposes converting them to `[[wikilinks]]`, and graduates heavily-mentioned persons into person pages. One-time migration per cortex v4.10+. Idempotent; gated by `memory/.migration-wikilink-relink-done` marker. Run once after upgrading; future memory writes use wikilinks natively per the canonical rule in cortex CLAUDE.md. Auto-fires when the user says: "relink my memory", "fix my wikilinks", "my graph is disconnected", "why isn't my obsidian graph showing edges", "back-fill the wikilinks", "graduate the people in my memory". Use `--rerun` to force re-scan after marker exists. Cost: 1-3 min for ~30 nodes. Token cost ~$0.10-0.50 per run.
Create a new workstream node — cortex's primitive for ongoing initiative pipelines that span multiple projects, people, and topics. Walks a short interview (name, current state, pinned context, linked entities) and writes `<config-root>/memory/workstream/<slug>.md`. Auto-fires when the user says: "start a workstream", "begin tracking X as a workstream", "I'm starting a new initiative — X", "I'm working on a new initiative", "set up a workstream for X". Differentiation: - Project nodes (`client/<slug>`) capture a specific engagement. - Person pages capture a relationship. - Topic nodes capture a subject area. - Domain nodes capture a persistent area of work. - Workstreams capture an ongoing *initiative pipeline* with current state, pinned context, open loops, and linked entities — spans projects/people/topics. New in cortex v4.9.0. See `references/workstream-schema.md` for the full schema.
Regenerate `<config-root>/memory/index.md` — a deterministic, zero-LLM catalog of every memory node grouped by type with decay-state flags. Auto-fires in THREE scenarios: 1. CHAIN STEP: invoked as Step 6 of `/end-day` and as the final step of `/cleanup`. Runs after user-gated changes are committed so the index reflects current state. 2. DEFERRED: when `/remember` writes a new entry, it appends a line to `<config-root>/memory/staged/queues/reindex`. The next `/end-day` or `/cleanup` notices the queue and runs the indexer. 3. EXPLICIT: user runs `/reindex`, or says "regenerate the memory index", "rebuild the catalog", "refresh memory/index.md". This skill has zero LLM cost in steady state. It is a file-walk + string-extract + write. No reasoning, no synthesis — see references/memory-index.md for the deterministic spec.
Nightly autonomous ingest pipeline. Pulls yesterday's calendar / Gmail / Slack / transcripts / Drive activity into `<config-root>/archive/YYYY-MM-DD/` (immutable substrate), runs the mining agents against the archive, stages all proposed memory commits to `staged/commit-drafts/YYYY-MM-DD.md`, and refreshes `memory/hot.md`. Designed for unattended scheduled execution — no user gates. Auto-fires when the user says: "ingest yesterday", "run nightly ingest", "what happened yesterday I haven't captured", "mine yesterday's calendar", "process yesterday's transcripts". Most users register it on a schedule (11pm or 5am) via core-ops `/register-schedules` and never invoke it by hand. Pair with `/morning` for the interactive review-and-merge of the staged draft.
The JARVIS morning routine. Reads the most-recent overnight `/listen` draft at `<config-root>/memory/staged/commit-drafts/`, walks the user through each proposed memory commit (accept / reject / edit / defer), applies accepted proposals to active memory nodes with v4.4 drift-detection, refreshes `memory/hot.md` and `memory/index.md`, and optionally chains into `/brief`. Auto-fires when the user says: "good morning", "start my day", "what happened overnight", "morning routine", "merge overnight ingest", "review last night's proposals". Most natural trigger is just opening a session and saying "good morning" — the router suggests `/morning` and the chain begins. Read-write to active memory but only for user-accepted proposals. Never silently merges, even for high-confidence proposals.
Active retention loop — surfaces 3-5 aging knowledge entries past their freshness threshold (but not yet cold) and walks the user through "still true? still useful?" per entry. Confirm / update / demote / archive / skip per entry. The explicit consolidation pass that converts dormancy into either re-confirmation or removal. Auto-fires on "/rehearse", "is this still true", "rehearse my memory", "what should I confirm or forget", "memory rehearsal", "consolidate my memory", or invoked weekly by /end-week. Default batch size 5; cadence weekly.