weekly-automation-reviewlisted

# Weekly Automation Review Once a week, look back at recent work, spot the tasks you did by hand more than once, and recommend **1–2** of them to automate into a skill, hook, or tool. The discipline is to automate deliberately on a cadence instead of only when something annoys you in the moment. Automation is a one-way ratchet unless something also **removes** it. So each run also does a **Retire pass**: pick 1–2 existing scaffolds whose capability bet the current model has outgrown and propose deleting them. Adding without ever retiring is how a harness accretes dead weight that fights a better model instead of riding it. ## What it reviews - **The prompt log** — `~/.claude/automation-review/prompts.jsonl`, written by the `dev-hooks` plugin's `prompt-log` hook: one JSON line per user prompt (`ts`, `cwd`, `session_id`, `len`, `prompt` ≤ 500 chars) across **all** repos. This is the only **cross-repo** source, and the strongest signal — what you actually keep *asking for* is exactly what's worth automating. Pull the last 7 days (jq-only cutoff, so no GNU/BSD `date` divergence). Read it **corruption-tolerantly** — a crash mid-append can leave a block of NUL bytes that makes a plain `jq -c` abort at that line and silently drop the whole rest of the file (so the review sees *zero* recent prompts and skips its strongest signal). Strip NULs, parse each line on its own, and drop only the unparseable fragment: ```bash for f in ~/.claude/automation-review/prompts.jsonl ~/.claud