What the Skill Actually Does
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What the Skill Actually Does
The skill instructs Claude to run a five-step process:
1. Analyse the conversation — identify the main topics, concrete outputs, decisions made, and outstanding items. This is the skill being specific about “outcomes, not activities.”
2. Read today’s daily note — before appending, Claude checks what’s already there to avoid duplicating entries from earlier in the day.
3. Append the session log — using the format above.
4. Task promotion — this is the step most people miss. The skill scans the “Next Steps” section and routes each item to the right place. Project follow-ups go to a domain TASKS.md. Post-deploy verification items go to the daily note’s verification section. The skill includes a full routing table:
SoN, newsletter, Kit.com → 04 Domains/Signal Over Noise/TASKS.md
Career, presentations → 04 Domains/Career/TASKS.md
Books, writing projects → 04 Domains/Books/TASKS.md
...5. SBC auto-detection — the skill flags sessions that produced something worth writing about. New skill created? Technical discovery? Something broke and you learned from it? Those get tagged #sbc-content and auto-appended to a captures file.