adept-self-improvelisted

# Self-improve: turn lessons into skills adept skills are portable memory. A lesson written as a skill is loaded by **every** harness on **every** future session — not lost when this context ends. When you learn something durable, capture it instead of forgetting it. ## When to capture Capture when the lesson is **durable and reusable**, not one-off: - The user **corrects** you ("we always use X, not Y", "don't touch Z"). - A fix or pattern **generalizes** beyond the file you're in. - You discover a **project convention** the code doesn't make obvious (a build gate, a naming rule, a required pre-PR step). - You catch yourself thinking *"I'll remember that for next time."* — you won't; the skill will. **Don't** capture: secrets, one-shot facts, anything already obvious from the code or existing skills. Improve an existing skill before adding a near-duplicate (`adept skill list`). ## The loop ```bash adept skill list # does a skill already cover this? edit it if so adept skill add <kebab-id> --edit # else scaffold a new one # write a triggering description + a tight, harness-neutral body adept sync # render to every enabled harness adept status && adept diff # confirm it landed clean ``` Then tell the user, in one line, what you captured and where — they own the memory, so let them veto it. Commit the new skill with their normal review. ## What makes a captured lesson good - **Description = trigger.*