harvest

name	Harvest
description	Mine a single piece of content (URL, YouTube video, article, raw text, or file) for anything genuinely useful to LifeOS, judged against the whole system — TELOS, the Algorithm, skills, hooks, memory, Pulse, routing, doctrine. Fetches it, extracts candidate ideas/techniques/patterns/tools/framings, tags each with a Prior Status (NEW/PARTIAL/DONE/REJECTED), ranks by usefulness × novelty × effort, and reports where each maps and how we would use it. Report-only; adopting anything is a separate approved step. USE WHEN harvest, harvest this, harvest <URL>, harvest <YouTube>, harvest this video, harvest this article, /harvest, /ha, mine this for the system, anything useful in this for us, what can LifeOS take from this, analyze this for LifeOS-usefulness, should we adopt anything from this. NOT FOR ingesting content into the Knowledge Archive (use _HARVEST), broad multi-source upgrade or bookmark scans (use Upgrade / pu), or general research synthesis (use Research).
license	public

Harvest

Take one piece of content and ask a single question: is there anything in here worth pulling into LifeOS? Read it, hold every candidate idea against what the system already is and already has, and report what is worth adopting, where it maps, and how we would use it. Report-only. Adoption is a separate, approved step.

Workflow Routing

Trigger	Workflow
harvest <url>, harvest this, /harvest, /ha, "mine this for the system", "anything useful in this for us"	Workflows/Harvest.md

Quick Reference

• One input at a time. A URL, a YouTube link, an article, a raw paste, or a file path.
• Fetch first, then judge. YouTube → fabric -y <url> for the transcript. Article → WebFetch or Research. File → Read. Raw text → use as-is.
• Judge against the real system, not a guess of it. Map each candidate to a concrete surface: an Algorithm phase or gate, a hook, a specific skill, the memory system, Pulse, routing/EFFORT_MODEL, ISA, or a doctrine file. If you can't name the surface, it isn't a harvest hit yet.
• Prior Status is the honesty check. NEW / PARTIAL (we have something close) / DONE (already implemented) / REJECTED (considered and declined). Cross-check before calling anything NEW.
• Output is a ranked table plus an honest verdict. Rank by usefulness × novelty × effort. If nothing is worth adopting, say so plainly — a clean "nothing here" beats manufactured findings.

Relationship to neighbors

• _HARVEST ingests a signal into the Knowledge Archive (a note gets written). Harvest writes nothing; it evaluates content for the system.
• Upgrade / pu scans many sources (Anthropic releases, YouTube channels, GitHub, bookmarks) for upgrades. Harvest is the focused single-input cousin: you hand it one thing, it mines that one thing.
• Research answers a question from many sources. Harvest starts from a source you already have and asks what LifeOS should take from it.

Gotchas

• YouTube needs fabric -y first. Never parse the YouTube page HTML — it's nav and JS. fabric -y <url> returns the transcript; analyze that.
• Report-only. Never edit the system from inside a harvest. The output is a proposal set. Changing an Algorithm file, a hook, a skill, or doctrine happens only after {{PRINCIPAL_NAME}} approves a specific item.
• Name the surface or drop the finding. "This is a cool idea" is not a harvest hit. "This maps to a new PostToolUse hook that would catch X" is. Vague usefulness gets cut.
• Prior Status prevents re-surfacing solved work. Before tagging NEW, check whether LifeOS already does it (grep skills/hooks, recall recent ISAs). Re-pitching something already built is the main failure mode.
• Be honest about empty content. A lot of content has nothing to harvest. Say that. Manufacturing three weak findings to look thorough is worse than one true "nothing here."
• Not the Knowledge Archive. If {{PRINCIPAL_NAME}} actually wants the content saved as a note, that's _HARVEST, not this.

Examples

harvest https://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID
# → fabric -y transcript → extract candidates → map to LifeOS surfaces → ranked table + verdict

harvest https://someblog.com/post-on-agent-memory
# → WebFetch body → same analysis

harvest "long pasted idea about a new eval technique..."
# → analyze the text directly

Execution Log

After completing the workflow, append a single JSONL entry:

echo '{"ts":"'$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)'","skill":"Harvest","workflow":"Harvest","input":"8_WORD_SUMMARY","status":"ok|error","duration_s":SECONDS}' >> ~/.claude/LIFEOS/MEMORY/SKILLS/execution.jsonl