Autocontext: Using Existing Knowledge

Autocontext: Using Existing Knowledge

Overview

Autocontext writes what it learns to a knowledge directory. This skill covers reading and moving that knowledge. To produce it, use autocontext-creator.

Nothing here assumes a particular agent host, and most of it is plain file reading - the layout is documented below precisely so an agent can go straight to the file it wants.

When to Use

• You want to know whether Autocontext has learned anything about a task.
• You want the current playbook or lessons for a scenario.
• You want to move knowledge from one checkout or machine to another.

Do not use this skill to run scenarios or judge output. That is autocontext-creator.

Where Knowledge Lives

The root defaults to ./knowledge and moves with AUTOCONTEXT_KNOWLEDGE_ROOT. Inside it, each scenario owns a directory:

<knowledge_root>/
  <scenario>/
    playbook.md              the current approach, rewritten as the loop learns
    lessons.json             accumulated lessons, newest last
    hints.md                 hints carried into the next attempt
    mutation_log.jsonl       one line per change, append-only
    package_metadata.json    present once the scenario has been exported
    reports/<run_id>.md      per-run written reports
  analytics/                 cross-scenario analytics
  _hub/                      shared research hub state
  _evaluator_epochs/         evaluator versioning

Directories starting with _ are shared across scenarios rather than owned by