Compound Skill

SkillDocs & knowledge

This skill should be used when the user says "/compound", "compound this", "document learnings", "save what we learned", or after completing a PR. Extracts knowledge from PR context and saves to docs/learnings/.

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What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by team-attention/hoyeon in skills/compound/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Extracts knowledge from PR context and saves structured documentation to docs/learnings/.

Workflow

Phase 1: Context Collection

  1. Identify PR number/branch

    • Use PR number if provided as argument
    • Otherwise, find PR from current branch: gh pr view --json number,body,title
    • If no PR exists: Prompt user to enter PR number directly or confirm proceeding without PR
  2. Extract Plan path

    • Find Plan path pattern in PR body: .hoyeon/specs/{name}/PLAN.md
    • Regex: \.hoyeon/specs/[^/]+/PLAN\.md
    • If no Plan path found: Prompt user to enter spec name directly or select from .hoyeon/specs/ directory listing
  3. Derive Context path

    • Extract spec name from Plan path
    • Context directory: .hoyeon/specs/{name}/context/
  4. Parallel collection (run following commands simultaneously, skip if files don't exist)

    # Context files (treat as empty if not found)
    cat .hoyeon/specs/{name}/context/learnings.json 2>/dev/null || echo ""
    cat .hoyeon/specs/{name}/context/decisions.md 2>/dev/null || echo ""
    cat .hoyeon/specs/{name}/context/issues.json 2>/dev/null || echo ""
    
    # PR comments and reviews (collect as JSON for stability)
    gh pr view {pr_number} --json comments,reviews
    

Error Handling:

  • If no context files exist AND no PR comments → Notify user and request manual input
  • At least 1 source required to proceed with document generation

Phase 2: Knowledge Extraction & Classification

2.1 Extract Valuable Feedback from PR Comments

Criteria for valuable feedback:

  • Code improvement suggestions
  • Bug/issue identification
  • Pattern/best practice mentions
  • "This would be better" type advice
  • Comments left with approval

Filter out:

  • Simple questions ("What is this?")
  • Confirmation requests ("Is this correct?")
  • Approval-only comments ("LGTM", "Approved")
  • Bot comments

Extraction keywords:

  • "suggest", "recommend", "better", "instead"
  • "pattern", "practice", "convention"
  • "issue", "bug", "fix"
  • "learned", "TIL", "note"

Extracted information:

  • author
  • body
  • file_path (if inline comment)
  • created_at
2.2 Analyze Context Files
FilePurpose
learnings.jsonStructured learnings
decisions.mdDecision rationale
issues.jsonStructured issues
2.3 Synthesize
  1. Assess documentation value from collected sources
  2. Check for duplicates: Search docs/learnings/
  3. Classify problem type - Refer to references/problem-types.md (relative to this skill directory)
  4. Generate tags

Phase 3: Document Generation

  1. Generate YAML frontmatter

    pr_number: {PR_NUMBER}
    date: {YYYY-MM-DD}
    problem_type: {TYPE}
    tags: [{TAGS}]
    plan_path: {PLAN_PATH}
    
  2. Write document using template

    • Template location: templates/LEARNING_TEMPLATE.md (relative to this skill directory)
    • Read template and substitute placeholders
  3. Determine filename

    • Format: {YYYY-MM-DD}-{short-title}.md
    • Example: 2024-01-15-api-error-handling.md
  4. Save

    • Path: docs/learnings/{filename}.md
  5. Add cross-references (if related documents exist)

    • Add new document link to Related section of existing documents

Usage Examples

# Specify PR number
/compound 123

# Use PR from current branch
/compound

Output

Outputs the created document path and summary:

Created: docs/learnings/2024-01-15-api-error-handling.md

Summary:
- Problem Type: error-handling
- Tags: api, typescript, validation
- Sources: learnings.json, 2 PR comments

Signals

GitHub stars
174
Forks
24
Last commit
May 2026
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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
compound-team-attention
Source
github.com/team-attention/hoyeon