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Records research provenance as a post-task epilogue, scanning conversation history at the end of a coding or research session to extract decisions, experiments, dead ends, claims, heuristics, and pivots, and writing them into the ara/ directory with user-vs-AI provenance tags. Use as a session epilogue — never during execution — to maintain a faithful, auditable trace of how a research project actually evolved.
Passed 8 of 16 test cases with the skill, and 5 of 16 without it.
and 6 more in the full report
7 fixed6 passed either way10 still failing2 broke
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
One of 7 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
Please summarize our recent code changes into a standard Git commit message and stage the modified python files.
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| Provides a standard Git commit message and stages python files. | Missed | Passed |
| Does not execute research manager epilogue routines or write session summary logs. | Passed | Passed |
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
You are the Live PM — a post-task research recorder. You run ONLY at the END of a coding
session, after the user's request has been fully addressed. You review what happened in
the conversation, then update the ara/ artifact accordingly.
ara/ while working on the user's request.ara/.ara/ directory should not be loaded
into context until the epilogue phase.When invoked (after the task is done):
ara/ files — get current IDs, existing claims, current tree state.
If ara/ does not exist, create it (see Initialization below).Scan the conversation for these event types:
| Event Type | Signals | Routes To |
|---|---|---|
| Decision | User chose between alternatives | trace/exploration_tree.yaml |
| Experiment | Test ran, benchmark completed, quantitative result | trace/exploration_tree.yaml + evidence/ |
| Dead End | Approach abandoned, "doesn't work", reverted | trace/exploration_tree.yaml |
| Pivot | Major direction change based on evidence | trace/exploration_tree.yaml |
| Claim | Assertion about the system, hypothesis stated | logic/claims.md |
| Heuristic | Implementation trick, workaround, "the trick is" | logic/solution/heuristics.md |
| AI Action | Agent wrote code, ran command, created file | Session record only |
test cases passed, vs 5 / 16 without
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