* refactor: Reduce continuation prompt token usage by 95 lines
Removed redundant instructions from continuation prompt that were originally
added to mitigate a session continuity issue. That issue has since been
resolved, making these detailed instructions unnecessary on every continuation.
Changes:
- Reduced continuation prompt from ~106 lines to ~11 lines (~95 line reduction)
- Changed "User's Goal:" to "Next Prompt in Session:" (more accurate framing)
- Removed redundant WHAT TO RECORD, WHEN TO SKIP, and OUTPUT FORMAT sections
- Kept concise reminder: "Continue generating observations and progress summaries..."
- Initial prompt still contains all detailed instructions
Impact:
- Significant token savings on every continuation prompt
- Faster context injection with no loss of functionality
- Instructions remain comprehensive in initial prompt
Files modified:
- src/sdk/prompts.ts (buildContinuationPrompt function)
- plugin/scripts/worker-service.cjs (compiled output)
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* refactor: Enhance observation and summary prompts for clarity and token efficiency
* Enhance prompt clarity and instructions in prompts.ts
- Added a reminder to think about instructions before starting work.
- Simplified the continuation prompt instruction by removing "for this ongoing session."
* feat: Enhance settings.json with permissions and deny access to sensitive files
refactor: Remove PLAN-full-observation-display.md and PR_SUMMARY.md as they are no longer needed
chore: Delete SECURITY_SUMMARY.md since it is redundant after recent changes
fix: Update worker-service.cjs to streamline observation generation instructions
cleanup: Remove src-analysis.md and src-tree.md for a cleaner codebase
refactor: Modify prompts.ts to clarify instructions for memory processing
* refactor: Remove legacy worker service implementation
* feat: Enhance summary hook to extract last assistant message and improve logging
- Added function to extract the last assistant message from the transcript.
- Updated summary hook to include last assistant message in the summary request.
- Modified SDKSession interface to store last assistant message.
- Adjusted buildSummaryPrompt to utilize last assistant message for generating summaries.
- Updated worker service and session manager to handle last assistant message in summarize requests.
- Introduced silentDebug utility for improved logging and diagnostics throughout the summary process.
* docs: Add comprehensive implementation plan for ROI metrics feature
Added detailed implementation plan covering:
- Token usage capture from Agent SDK
- Database schema changes (migration #8)
- Discovery cost tracking per observation
- Context hook display with ROI metrics
- Testing and rollout strategy
Timeline: ~20 hours over 4 days
Goal: Empirical data for YC application amendment
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* feat: Add transcript processing scripts for analysis and formatting
- Implemented `dump-transcript-readable.ts` to generate a readable markdown dump of transcripts, excluding certain entry types.
- Created `extract-rich-context-examples.ts` to extract and showcase rich context examples from transcripts, highlighting user requests and assistant reasoning.
- Developed `format-transcript-context.ts` to format transcript context into a structured markdown format for improved observation generation.
- Added `test-transcript-parser.ts` for validating data extraction from transcript JSONL files, including statistics and error reporting.
- Introduced `transcript-to-markdown.ts` for a complete representation of transcript data in markdown format, showing all context data.
- Enhanced type definitions in `transcript.ts` to support new features and ensure type safety.
- Built `transcript-parser.ts` to handle parsing of transcript JSONL files, including error handling and data extraction methods.
* Refactor hooks and SDKAgent for improved observation handling
- Updated `new-hook.ts` to clean user prompts by stripping leading slashes for better semantic clarity.
- Enhanced `save-hook.ts` to include additional tools in the SKIP_TOOLS set, preventing unnecessary observations from certain command invocations.
- Modified `prompts.ts` to change the structure of observation prompts, emphasizing the observational role and providing a detailed XML output format for observations.
- Adjusted `SDKAgent.ts` to enforce stricter tool usage restrictions, ensuring the memory agent operates solely as an observer without any tool access.
* feat: Enhance session initialization to accept user prompts and prompt numbers
- Updated `handleSessionInit` in `worker-service.ts` to extract `userPrompt` and `promptNumber` from the request body and pass them to `initializeSession`.
- Modified `initializeSession` in `SessionManager.ts` to handle optional `currentUserPrompt` and `promptNumber` parameters.
- Added logic to update the existing session's `userPrompt` and `lastPromptNumber` if a `currentUserPrompt` is provided.
- Implemented debug logging for session initialization and updates to track user prompts and prompt numbers.
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* feat: add mem-search skill with progressive disclosure architecture
Add comprehensive mem-search skill for accessing claude-mem's persistent
cross-session memory database. Implements progressive disclosure workflow
and token-efficient search patterns.
Features:
- 12 search operations (observations, sessions, prompts, by-type, by-concept, by-file, timelines, etc.)
- Progressive disclosure principles to minimize token usage
- Anti-patterns documentation to guide LLM behavior
- HTTP API integration for all search functionality
- Common workflows with composition examples
Structure:
- SKILL.md: Entry point with temporal trigger patterns
- principles/: Progressive disclosure + anti-patterns
- operations/: 12 search operation files
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* docs: add CHANGELOG entry for mem-search skill
Document mem-search skill addition in Unreleased section with:
- 100% effectiveness compliance metrics
- Comparison to previous search skill implementation
- Progressive disclosure architecture details
- Reference to audit report documentation
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* docs: add mem-search skill audit report
Add comprehensive audit report validating mem-search skill against
Anthropic's official skill-creator documentation.
Report includes:
- Effectiveness metrics comparison (search vs mem-search)
- Critical issues analysis for production readiness
- Compliance validation across 6 key dimensions
- Reference implementation guidance
Result: mem-search achieves 100% compliance vs search's 67%
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* feat: Add comprehensive search architecture analysis document
- Document current state of dual search architectures (HTTP API and MCP)
- Analyze HTTP endpoints and MCP search server architectures
- Identify DRY violations across search implementations
- Evaluate the use of curl as the optimal approach for search
- Provide architectural recommendations for immediate and long-term improvements
- Outline action plan for cleanup, feature parity, DRY refactoring
* refactor: Remove deprecated search skill documentation and operations
* refactor: Reorganize documentation into public and context directories
Changes:
- Created docs/public/ for Mintlify documentation (.mdx files)
- Created docs/context/ for internal planning and implementation docs
- Moved all .mdx files and assets to docs/public/
- Moved all internal .md files to docs/context/
- Added CLAUDE.md to both directories explaining their purpose
- Updated docs.json paths to work with new structure
Benefits:
- Clear separation between user-facing and internal documentation
- Easier to maintain Mintlify docs in dedicated directory
- Internal context files organized separately
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* Enhance session management and continuity in hooks
- Updated new-hook.ts to clarify session_id threading and idempotent session creation.
- Modified prompts.ts to require claudeSessionId for continuation prompts, ensuring session context is maintained.
- Improved SessionStore.ts documentation on createSDKSession to emphasize idempotent behavior and session connection.
- Refined SDKAgent.ts to detail continuation prompt logic and its reliance on session.claudeSessionId for unified session handling.
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Co-authored-by: Alex Newman <thedotmack@gmail.com>
- Removed fragile PM2 string parsing and replaced with direct PM2 restart logic.
- Eliminated silent error handling in worker-utils.ts for better error visibility.
- Extracted duplicated session auto-creation logic into a new helper method getOrCreateSession() in worker-service.ts.
- Centralized configuration values and replaced magic numbers with named constants.
- Updated health check logic to ensure worker is restarted if unhealthy.
- Removed unnecessary getWorkerPort() wrapper function.
- Improved overall code quality and maintainability by applying DRY and YAGNI principles.
- Updated `save-hook.js`, `summary-hook.js`, `context-hook.ts`, `new-hook.ts`, and `save-hook.ts` to include a call to `ensureWorkerRunning()` at the beginning of their main functions. This ensures that the worker is active before any operations are performed.
- Cleaned up import statements in the affected files to include the new utility function from `worker-utils.js`.
- Minor adjustments to logging and error handling to improve robustness and clarity.
- Removed ensureWorkerRunning calls from multiple hooks (cleanup, context, new, save, summary) to streamline code and avoid unnecessary checks.
- Introduced fixed port usage for worker communication across hooks.
- Enhanced error handling in newHook, saveHook, and summaryHook to provide clearer messages for worker connection issues.
- Updated worker service to start without health checks, relying on PM2 for management.
- Cached Claude executable path to optimize repeated calls.
- Improved logging for better traceability of worker actions and errors.
- Removed bin/hooks/ wrapper layer
- Moved all hook logic into consolidated hooks/*-hook.ts files
- Each hook now handles its own stdin/stdout/JSON wrapping
- Removed ALL try-catch blocks from context-hook (let errors surface)
- Updated build script to reference new src/hooks/ paths
- Reduced from 12+ files to 6 hook files
This simplifies the architecture and makes debugging actually possible.
Alex Newman