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# Harvest — Cross-Rig Knowledge Consolidation > **Nightly usage (2026-04-09):** `$dream start` now runs harvest as part > of its bounded compounding loop. Use `$harvest` for manual sweeps, CI > runs, or when Dream is disabled. Dream holds `.agents/overnight/run.lock` > while running — manual `ao harvest` will refuse until the lock releases. Sweep all `.agents/` directories across the workspace, extract learnings, patterns, and research, deduplicate cross-rig, and promote high-value items to the global knowledge hub (`~/.agents/learnings/`). > **Naming gotcha.** `$harvest` promotes into `~/.agents/learnings/`, not > `~/.agents/`. Users often say "harvest all to `~/.agents`" and mean the > promotion hub. If you really want every raw artifact (not just the > promotion set) mirrored verbatim, you want `rsync`, not `$harvest`. ## Which skill do I need? See [docs/skills-decision-tree.md](../../docs/skills-decision-tree.md) for the full "which skill next?" decision table covering harvest, compile, dream, knowledge-activation, and quickstart. ## What This Skill Does The knowledge flywheel captures learnings per-rig, but they stay siloed. Harvest closes the loop by walking all rigs, extracting artifacts, deduplicating by content hash, and promoting high-confidence items to the global hub where every rig can access them via `ao inject`. **When to use:** Before an evolve cycle, after a burst of development across multiple rigs, or weekly as part of knowledge governance. **Outpu