Situate daily notes

Use this on demand when the user asks you to catch up, or as the required daily-notes phase of close-of-day.

Do not run it automatically at session start.

Script roles

• situate.ts — full situation report + rolling memory refresh + note status check
• daily-notes.ts — generate or refresh daily-note skeletons only

Quick start

bun run /workspace/.pi/skills/situate-daily-notes/situate.ts

This:

1. prints a one-page situation report
2. aggregates activity across the relevant chat/session scope
3. generates missing daily-note skeletons
4. refreshes rolling memory/context files under notes/memory/
5. lists notes that still need summaries or partial updates

For web:* scopes, all web session trees are included and labelled so parallel branches stay distinguishable.

Daily note format

Notes live at notes/daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md and begin with YAML front matter like:

---
date: 2026-03-04
summarised_until: 2026-03-04T17:55:35.286Z
messages_total: 25
messages_user: 10
messages_assistant: 15
session_trees: 2
session_chats: 4
first_message: 2026-03-04T12:31:03.860Z
last_message: 2026-03-04T17:55:17.309Z
scope_mode: all-web-session-trees
scope_anchor: web:default
---

Rolling memory outputs live under notes/memory/:

• notes/memory/current-state.md
• notes/memory/recent-context.md
• notes/memory/MEMORY.md

Writing summaries

Daily notes summarise activity. The message database is the source of truth for the full transcript.

When situate.ts or daily-notes.ts reports notes that need summary work:

1. read the note to confirm the target day and current metadata
2. use the messages tool as the primary transcript source
3. write a concise narrative summary covering:
   • work grouped by theme rather than chronology
   • key outcomes / deployments / configurations
   • unresolved blockers or open threads
   • materially different branch conversations kept distinct
4. replace <!-- NEEDS_SUMMARY --> or the update marker
5. move summarised_until to the last covered message timestamp

If a note is only partially behind, append a short update section and advance the watermark rather than rewriting the whole note.

Keep the prose terse, dense, and matter-of-fact. Preserve existing real summaries; only fill placeholders or append updates.

Options

Standalone daily-note generation

bun run /workspace/.pi/skills/situate-daily-notes/daily-notes.ts [--days <n>] [--force]

For daily-note writing, prefer the messages tool over a separate full-transcript export unless you specifically need a transcript artifact.