- Changed the title of the summary prompt to "THIS REQUEST'S SUMMARY" for better context.
- Revised instructions to focus on summarizing what was built/fixed/deployed/configured, rather than the observation process.
- Clarified when not to summarize, emphasizing conversational requests and trivial inquiries.
- Updated examples to better illustrate good summary practices.
Added "WHEN NOT TO SUMMARIZE" section to buildSummaryPrompt that instructs the SDK to skip creating summaries for:
- Work already covered in previous prompts (prevents duplicates)
- Conversational banter with no deliverables
- Trivial requests (questions, status checks)
- Meta-discussions about memory system without shipped changes
Implementation:
- src/sdk/prompts.ts: Added WHEN NOT TO SUMMARIZE section with <skip_summary> output format
- src/sdk/parser.ts: Added skip_summary detection before parsing full summary XML
- src/sdk/parser.ts: Fixed observation type validation to include all 6 types (bugfix, feature, refactor, change, discovery, decision)
This should eliminate the duplicate summaries like the three "restore 6 types" summaries we saw for session d9137878.
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Restored full type system: bugfix, feature, refactor, change, discovery, decision.
This enables more precise search queries like "show all bugfixes in auth" vs generic "show all changes".
Also updated README to reflect current behavior (10 summaries with three-tier verbosity).
Changes:
- prompts.ts: Expanded type field from 3 to 6 types with clear definitions
- CLAUDE.md: Fixed context hook description (3 → 10 summaries)
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Updated SDK prompts to distinguish between deliverables (what was built/shipped) vs meta-operations (what the memory system is doing). This prevents self-referential pollution like "Process tool executions" instead of actual coding tasks like "Fix authentication bug".
Changes:
- buildInitPrompt: Added deliverable-focused framing with contrastive examples
- buildSummaryPrompt: Injected user's original prompt + explicit examples
- Added verb guidance (implemented/fixed/deployed vs analyzed/tracked/stored)
- Added "NOW DOES" present-tense capability framing
Works across all project types: dev, DevOps, docs, infrastructure, research, config.
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- Filter out observation type from concepts array in parseObservations function to ensure types and concepts are treated as separate dimensions. Added logging for removed types.
- Update prompts documentation to clarify that the observation type must not be included in the concepts array.
- Modify search-server to provide clearer guidance on result limits, emphasizing starting with smaller limits to avoid exceeding token limits.
- Refactor SessionSearch methods to accept options for limit, offset, and orderBy parameters, improving flexibility in querying observations by concept and type.
Changed summary prompts to generate discrete per-request summaries instead of cumulative session summaries. This provides better chronological memory where each summary is a clean unit representing one request/response cycle.
Changes:
- Renamed buildFinalizePrompt() to buildSummaryPrompt() in src/sdk/prompts.ts
- Updated prompt text to focus on "THIS REQUEST" rather than "this session"
- Updated all import and function call sites in worker-service.ts and worker.ts
- Added IMPORTANT warning to emphasize request-level scope
Expected behavior: Each summary will now describe only what happened during that specific request, eliminating cumulative recaps.
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- Updated `summary-hook.js` to improve logging and session handling.
- Modified `context.ts` to fetch recent sessions with status and summary info, enhancing output formatting.
- Added new methods in `HooksDatabase.ts` for retrieving recent sessions and their summaries.
- Improved observation retrieval logic in `context.ts` to display relevant information for active sessions.
- Enhanced prompt documentation in `prompts.ts` to clarify output expectations.
- Refactored logger methods in `logger.ts` to instance methods for better encapsulation.
- Updated observation schema to include hierarchical fields: title, subtitle, facts, narrative, concepts, files_read, and files_modified.
- Modified the save-hook and summary-hook scripts to accommodate the new observation structure.
- Added migration logic to the HooksDatabase for adding new fields to the observations table.
- Refactored the parser to extract new fields from XML formatted observations.
- Adjusted prompt generation to reflect the new observation format and requirements.
- Updated worker service to handle new observation and summary structures.
- Added final finalize prompt for session summary generation with required XML fields.
- Introduced recommended prompt flow with structured observation format and hierarchical storage principles.
- Created final init prompt for processing tool executions with clear guidelines on when to store observations.
- Developed final observation prompt for analyzing tool outputs and generating structured observations.
- Migrated old prompt flow to a new system with improved clarity and structured data handling.
- Updated parser and storage mechanisms to accommodate new observation formats and fields.
- Enhanced documentation for new prompts and their usage in memory processing sessions.
- Added WorkerService to handle long-running HTTP service with session management.
- Implemented endpoints for initializing, observing, finalizing, checking status, and deleting sessions.
- Integrated with Claude SDK for processing observations and generating responses.
- Added port allocator utility to dynamically find available ports for the service.
- Configured TypeScript settings for the project.
- Added background agent architecture for processing tool observations and generating session summaries.
- Created SDK Prompts Module for generating prompts for the Claude Agent SDK.
- Developed XML Parser Module for parsing observation and summary XML blocks from SDK responses.
- Implemented SDK Worker Process to handle observation processing and session management.
- Updated newHook implementation to spawn the SDK worker as a detached process with path resolution for development and production.
- Created comprehensive test suite for SDK prompts, XML parsing, and HooksDatabase integration, ensuring all tests pass.
- Documented Phase 2 implementation details, architecture validation, and success criteria in PHASE2-COMPLETE.md.
Alex Newman