Reviewer Memory

SkillDocs & knowledge

Store durable review and slicing observations locally as raw JSON plus an OKF digest. Use when capturing review outcomes, reading a repository's accumulated reviewer memory, or distilling its durable lessons.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Reviewer Memory skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by connorgriffin/skills in skills/tools/reviewer-memory/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Reviewer memory is one operator's local, durable record of review outcomes and ticket slicing. Each repository has a store under ~/.config/reviewer-memory/<repo-key>/, where <repo-key> is the filesystem-safe form of ticket's normalized remote. The store contains:

<repo-key>/
  raw.jsonl       append-only review and slicing captures
  okf/
    index.md      entry page for the OKF bundle
    <topic>.md    one-concept-per-file durable lessons

The OKF bundle is a directory of Markdown documents. Each page has only title, updated, and tags YAML frontmatter. okf/index.md is the entry page and pages link to each other with explicit relative links.

Script interface

Run scripts/memory.py with one of these commands:

  • ensure <repo> resolves a remote URL or checkout, creates the missing store skeleton, and prints JSON with its key, paths, and whether the bundle has body content.
  • append-review <repo> reads one JSON object from all of standard input and appends a review record to raw.jsonl.
  • append-slicing <repo> reads one JSON object from all of standard input and appends a slicing-outcome record without renaming its fields.
  • pointer <repo> prints the absolute path to okf/index.md for prompt injection.

raw.jsonl is permanent: never truncate or rewrite it as part of ordinary use.

Failure rule

Missing store roots are created on demand, and an empty bundle is valid. If a store exists but its paths are unreadable, writes are denied, raw.jsonl has a malformed JSON line, or okf/index.md does not start and close frontmatter with --- lines, the script exits nonzero and names the file and repair. On a permission denial, rerun the verb outside the sandbox or with escalated permissions. A caller halts its verb on that exit; it does not continue without memory. The sole deliberate absence is that this skill is not installed at all: a consumer that cannot find this script says one line and continues without memory.

Distill

The operator invokes /reviewer-memory distill [repo] to turn permanent captures into a compact, useful bundle:

  1. Read the repository's complete raw.jsonl and its durable GitHub artifacts, including work-order comments and committed docs or scope ledgers.
  2. Rewrite okf/ as an OKF bundle. Keep index.md to a capped one-page digest; link it explicitly to per-topic pages such as gotchas.md, request-types.md, and slicing-outcomes.md when those topics exist.
  3. Preserve every raw line. Distillation is idempotent over raw.jsonl: it revises the derived bundle, never the capture record.

Signals

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