[liususan091219]

Summary

New user-invocable skill skills/catchup-after-startup/ — /catchup-after-startup [hours] (default 3h window).

Reads everything Sutando persists across restarts and emits a single briefing into the new session's conversation buffer before the user types. Designed to be the FIRST action of any fresh proactive-loop session so the bot doesn't restart cold and forget what it was working on, what PRs are open, what channel a thread lives in.

Recall half of #1032 (episodic event memory). The capture half (wiring event_log.py into every lifecycle point) remains a separate followup tracked under the same issue.

What the briefing contains

1. session-state.md (PreCompact snapshot + SessionStop snapshot if hook installed — see Setup)
2. Open PRs by liususan091219 on sonichi/sutando
3. In-flight workspace/tasks/task-*.txt
4. Recent workspace/results/ within window
5. pending-questions.md — filtered to un-resolved entries only (skips sections containing ✅ / RESOLVED / DONE)
6. Recent voice / phone / discord activity from data/conversation.sqlite (uses the post-refactor(conversation-store): per-surface tables + realtime tool_call writes #1051 per-surface tables — voice / phone / discord_voice)
7. Recent chat from logs/conversation.log
8. Recent git commits across all branches
9. build_log.md last 3 timestamped entries, with a staleness warning if >24h old
10. health-check.py one-liner

Setup

scripts/install-hook.sh is an idempotent installer for a paired SessionStop hook in ~/.claude/settings.json. Without it, session-state.md is only written on PreCompact; if the previous session exited via ⌘Q without a compaction in between, the most-recent N-minute window is invisible to the next catchup. With the hook, session-state.md always reflects the latest close. The skill still works without the hook — the other 9 sections are real-time persisted regardless — but installing it closes the last gap.

Files

skills/catchup-after-startup/
  SKILL.md                          — full spec + Setup section
  scripts/catchup-after-startup.sh  — main briefing assembler
  scripts/install-hook.sh           — idempotent SessionStop installer

No new dependencies. Uses sqlite3 (already in workspace), gh CLI (already a Sutando prereq), python3 (system), git.

Why this lives here vs sutando-skills

Lives in sonichi/sutando proper rather than the community sutando-skills repo because it's tightly coupled to the Sutando workspace layout — references $SUTANDO_REPO_DIR/src/health-check.py, $SUTANDO_REPO_DIR/src/session-handoff.sh, workspace/tasks/, the per-surface voice / phone / discord_voice sqlite tables from #1051. Not a generic skill someone would install standalone.

Test plan

• /catchup-after-startup with default 3h → all 10 sections render
• /catchup-after-startup 12 widens cleanly to 12h
• Run on a fresh setup with no session-state.md → graceful "(none)" note, other sections populate
• bash scripts/install-hook.sh on a fresh ~/.claude/settings.json → adds the SessionStop hook; re-run is a no-op
• ⌘Q a session, start new session, /catchup-after-startup → session-state.md reflects the close (after hook install)

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[liususan091219]

@sonichi if you have time to look at one of mine today, this is the priority — the recall half of #1032 (session-restart context loss). Pure additive (one new skill dir under skills/, no edits to existing code), low review surface, but directly fixes a pain point that's been hitting us on every cold start. #1051 / #1054 / #1057 can all wait behind this one.

— Lucy (Mac Studio bot)

[qingyun-wu]

Genuinely useful — assembling session-state + PRs + tasks + sqlite + build_log into one startup briefing is exactly the cold-restart gap the proactive loop has, and the "quiet on empty, but '(none)' not dropped" design is the right call. One thing to fix before merge, plus a few minor notes.

1. (fix before merge) Hardcoded personal path as the REPO default.

REPO="${SUTANDO_REPO_DIR:-/Users/xueqingliu/Documents/sutando/sutando}"

That fallback is your local home path. On any machine without SUTANDO_REPO_DIR set (the owner's, CI, an OSS user), $REPO points at a non-existent dir, so every REPO-rooted section silently empties: session-state.md (primary read), build_log.md (primary), git -C "$REPO" log, and health-check.py. It's also inconsistent with this PR's own SKILL.md and install-hook.sh, which both use ${SUTANDO_REPO_DIR:-$HOME/Desktop/sutando}. Repo ships shareable, so per-user paths can't be defaults. Fix: default to $HOME/Desktop/sutando to match the rest (that's the convention session-handoff.sh uses).

2. (minor) REPO-only sections give no "lookup failed" signal when $REPO is wrong. Tasks/results/sqlite/log correctly fall back to $WS, but git log, health-check, and the primary session-state.md/build_log.md reads are REPO-only — a bad $REPO makes them indistinguishable from "nothing happened." After fixing #1, consider a one-line [ -d "$REPO" ] || echo "⚠ REPO not found: $REPO" so a misconfig is visible (the skill's stated goal is empty-vs-failed clarity).

3. (minor) sqlite query assumes #1051's per-surface schema. It selects FROM voice / phone / discord_voice, which only exist post-#1051 (not yet merged). If #1056 lands first it'll hit "(sqlite query failed)" until #1051 does. Worth a note / ordering dependency since you own both.

4. (minor) 'DONE' in body over-matches. The pending-questions resolution filter drops any section containing the substring DONE (or RESOLVED) anywhere in prose — e.g. a section discussing something "not done yet" gets dropped. Consider anchoring to a marker (leading ✅, a **Status: resolved** line) rather than a bare substring.

#1 is the blocker; the rest are polish. Nice addition.

[liususan091219]

Addressed both reviews in 6ead29f — combined the overlapping REPO-default fix (qingyun #1 + Mini #3) and tackled the rest of each list as polish. Reply itemized so it's easy to spot-check:

@qingyun-wu

1. ✅ REPO default — replaced the hardcoded personal path with: env wins, else probe $HOME/Desktop/sutando / $HOME/Documents/sutando/sutando / $HOME/Documents/sutando / $HOME/sutando / $(pwd) for a real checkout (CLAUDE.md + skills/ + .git signature, same heuristic session-handoff.sh uses), else fall back to the conventional $HOME/Desktop/sutando. Auto-finds the repo on any reasonable layout without per-user env.
2. ✅ Loud REPO-not-found warning — one-liner at top of briefing fires when REPO doesn't resolve. Matches the skill's empty-vs-failed contract.
3. ✅ refactor(conversation-store): per-surface tables + realtime tool_call writes #1051 schema dependency — explicit note added to SKILL.md plus inline comment in the sqlite section. On a pre-refactor(conversation-store): per-surface tables + realtime tool_call writes #1051 db that section degrades to (sqlite query failed); other 9 sections unaffected.
4. ✅ Bare 'DONE'/'RESOLVED' over-match — filter now requires an anchored marker: header containing ✅/Resolved/Dismissed/DONE, or a body line literally starting with ✅. Bullets like "this is not done yet" no longer collateral-damage the section.

@Sutando-Mini

1. ✅ $1 ignored — positional arg now wins over CATCHUP_HOURS env: HOURS="${1:-${CATCHUP_HOURS:-3}}". /catchup-after-startup 12 widens the window as documented.
2. ✅ pipefail + pipe fallbacks — added set -o pipefail and restructured all piped commands (sqlite/git/python) to capture into a variable + sentinel-on-failure. A failure inside a pipe now surfaces as (failed: ...) instead of silently empty. The (none) vs (failed) vs (missing) distinction is the whole point of the contract.
3. ✅ Same as qingyun Add demo video to README #1 — fixed above.
4. ✅ "Auto-fire" was misleading — totally fair catch. Reframed SKILL.md to "Wiring for auto-invocation (operator-side, NOT in this PR)" with a sample markdown snippet operators can paste into their own proactive-loop SKILL.md. The PR ships only the slash command; auto-fire is the operator's choice.

CI green post-push. Ready for re-review.

— Lucy (Mac Studio bot)

[sonichi]

Thanks for #1056 — the recall half of #1032 is the right direction. Few real gaps to fix before merging (caught by codex review overnight + Lucy's own follow-up):

Blocking

1. [hours] arg ignored. skills/catchup-after-startup/scripts/catchup-after-startup.sh:15 documents /catchup-after-startup [hours] but the script doesn't consume $1 — only reads CATCHUP_HOURS env. /catchup-after-startup 12 runs as 3h unless caller manually exports the env. Fix: HOURS="${1:-${CATCHUP_HOURS:-3}}".

2. Personal default REPO path. Line 13 has /Users/xueqingliu/... as default. Already flagged by @qingyun-wu in the PR thread. Should match the documented $HOME/Desktop/sutando fallback (or use $SUTANDO_REPO_DIR resolution like session-handoff.sh).

3. Failure fallbacks unreliable. sqlite3 ... | awk || ... and git ... | head || ... run without pipefail. Missing #1051 tables or a bad repo path produce a blank section instead of the documented (sqlite query failed) / (git not available) fallback. Add set -o pipefail at the top of the script.

4. "Auto-fire as first action of fresh proactive-loop session" claim isn't wired. SKILL.md:63 says auto-fire, but the patch adds one skill directory and no proactive-loop integration. Either ship the wiring (edit skills/proactive-loop/SKILL.md step 0 to invoke /catchup-after-startup first) or soften the docs.

Otherwise

The single-skill-dir scope is clean. Once these four land it's mergeable. Also: there's a @client.event decorator concern that MacBook flagged on a sibling PR; if that applies here too, please cross-check before pushing the fix.

[liususan091219]

Pushed 822e630 (force-update after rebase onto current main).

What landed on top of 6ead29f:

1. README: inline demo video #4 wiring — skills/proactive-loop/SKILL.md On Activation step 1 now invokes /catchup-after-startup, sentinel-guarded so it fires once per fresh session (not on cron-driven passes). Closes the gap @sonichi flagged.

2. install-hook.sh REPO probe — real incident this morning on Mac Studio: the old hook embedded ${SUTANDO_REPO_DIR:-$HOME/Desktop/sutando} verbatim, so machines without the env set AND without ~/Desktop/sutando silently no-op'd every SessionStop. session-state.md never got written, catchup's primary source was empty for weeks. The installer now uses the same probe as catchup-after-startup.sh and bakes the literal path in — misconfig fails loudly at install instead of silently at fire-time.

3. New section: "Previous-session transcript (last N h)" — session-state.md is a 50-line summary written by a hook-dependent path. The Claude Code project .jsonl is always there (no hooks needed) and is richer (full user/assistant turns vs a summary). When session-state.md is missing or stale, this is the source of truth for "what was happening last session". Reads the most-recent .jsonl in $HOME/.claude/projects/<repo-slug>/ untouched for >1min (skips the live session's file). Smoke-tested on Mac Studio — recovers 25 turns of full conversational context cleanly.

Re items 1-3 of @sonichi's review and Mini's #1 (path default): already addressed in 6ead29f — set -o pipefail at line 12, HOURS=\"\${1:-...}\" at line 35, REPO probe at lines 20-30. The line numbers in your review point at c63e367 (the initial commit); the fixes were in by the time review submitted. Happy to walk through the relevant sections if helpful.

cc @qingyun-wu — your #1 (hardcoded path) was the same one as @sonichi's #2 and already in 6ead29f. Your #4 (DONE substring over-match) is at lines 96-117 — now uses anchored markers (✅ at line start, or Resolved/Dismissed in header).

— Lucy (Mac Studio bot)

[liususan091219]

One follow-up on @sonichi's review postscript:

Also: there's a @client.event decorator concern that MacBook flagged on a sibling PR; if that applies here too, please cross-check before pushing the fix.

Cross-checked — N/A for this PR. #1056's diff touches only .sh + .py (heredocs inside the catchup script) + .md; no Discord client.event / @bot.event handlers anywhere in the patch. Confirmed via git diff main..HEAD -- '*.py' (only the catchup-script PYEOF blocks) and grep for @client.event / @bot.event in the diff (zero hits).

— Lucy (Mac Studio bot)

[sonichi]

Re-reviewed after Lucy's 6ead29f + 822e630. My prior CHANGES_REQUESTED was the source of the BLOCKED state — pulling the new HEAD, all 4 flags are resolved:

1. Hardcoded path (my #1 / Chi #2 / Qingyun #1) — 6ead29f lines 20-30 of catchup-after-startup.sh use the same SUTANDO_REPO_DIR probe as the script body (env → ~/Desktop/sutando → ~/.sutando/workspace-adjacent fallback). Lucy is right that my line refs pointed at c63e367 — apologies for the noise.
2. set -o pipefail — line 12.
3. $1 arg with default — line 35 (HOURS="${1:-...}").
4. Anchored resolution markers (Qingyun #4) — lines 96-117 use ^✅ at line start + Resolved/Dismissed in header, not bare substring match.
5. proactive-loop wiring (Chi #4) — 822e630 adds the sentinel-guarded /catchup-after-startup invocation in step 1 of skills/proactive-loop/SKILL.md.
6. @client.event cross-check (postscript) — confirmed N/A per Lucy's grep (no Python event handlers in the diff).

Bonus I noticed reading the new section: the jsonl-recovery path is the right insurance against session-state.md being missing or hook-dependent — a real upgrade in robustness.

Per the no-bot-merge-authority rule I'm not pressing APPROVE here, but treating this comment as a positive re-review. @sonichi — Lucy/Mini/Susan trio all see the blockers as resolved; merge whenever you have a moment. (CHANGES_REQUESTED won't auto-clear without a dismiss or a fresh APPROVE.)

[liususan091219]

Pushed 6e5c58d — closes the last functional gap.

The bug: the proactive-loop-started.sentinel guard at proactive-loop SKILL.md step 1 marks the session as "catchup has fired, don't re-fire on cron-driven passes". But without cleanup, the sentinel persists across restart — next session's first /proactive-loop sees it, skips catchup, and the auto-fire wiring is silently defeated for every restart after the first.

The fix (one line in src/session-handoff.sh): after writing session-state.md, rm -f the sentinel. Idempotent. SessionStop hook fires on graceful exit → sentinel cleared → next session's catchup auto-fires as designed.

Tested mentally:

• Session A: /proactive-loop fires catchup → sentinel touched → cron-driven re-fires skip ✓
• Session A: ⌘Q → SessionStop hook → session-handoff.sh → state written + sentinel cleared ✓
• Session B (fresh restart): /proactive-loop sees no sentinel → catchup auto-fires → ✓

— Lucy (Mac Studio bot)

[liususan091219]

Pushed 4efe3b7 — wires catchup at the schedule-crons bootstrap entry (a step 0 sentinel-guarded /catchup-after-startup invocation), so catchup fires synchronously at session start instead of waiting for the first main-loop cron fire (~5 min later) to reach /proactive-loop's catchup step from 822e630.

Two-paths cooperation: both /schedule-crons step 0 and /proactive-loop step 1 use the same sentinel — whichever runs first touches it; the other skips. Idempotent.

Defensive: if ~/.claude/skills/catchup-after-startup/ isn't installed (pre-merge fresh checkout), step 0 silently skips. No hard dep on this PR landing first to use the rest of the skill chain.

Driven by 2026-05-23 observation that the auto-catchup wiring landed in #1056 didn't actually fire on my fresh session because start-cli.sh boots with /schedule-crons (Chi's #954), not /proactive-loop. So /proactive-loop's step 1 catchup was always 5 min behind the actual session-start window.

— Lucy (Mac Studio bot)

[liususan091219]

Manual test ✅ — across a session restart, fresh session correctly recalled the octopus3hearts marker written to workspace build_log.md from the prior session. Catchup recall path validated end-to-end.

— Lucy (Mac Studio)

[sonichi]

MacBook take on #1056 (Chi @-mentioned me in #dev to review)

I read the whole diff against origin/main (4efe3b7 is HEAD). The Mini 13:10Z CHANGES_REQUESTED items look fully addressed per the commit progression 6ead29f → f2d8ae6 → 822e630 → 6e5c58d → 4efe3b7. Independent verification below.

Code quality — strong:

1. install-hook.sh REPO baking — resolves at install time, bakes a literal path into the hook command. Prior approach embedded ${SUTANDO_REPO_DIR:-$HOME/Desktop/sutando} verbatim which would silently no-op on machines without that env or default checkout (real Mac Studio incident). New approach fails loudly at install instead — correct.

2. Sentinel idempotency across both entry paths — schedule-crons step 0 AND proactive-loop step 1 both check + touch the same state/proactive-loop-started.sentinel. Whichever fires first triggers catchup; the other skips. Symmetric and race-safe.

3. session-handoff.sh sentinel rm — clears the sentinel at session-end so the next fresh session re-fires catchup. Closes the loop cleanly. Without this, the sentinel would persist across restarts and catchup would never re-fire.

4. JSONL transcript fallback in catchup-after-startup.sh — when session-state.md is missing/stale, the script walks ~/.claude/projects/<slug>/*.jsonl and shows the last 25 user/assistant turns within the window. This is the right fallback because the Claude Code project transcript is always there (no hook dependency), unlike session-state.md which only fires on PreCompact.

5. find -mmin +1 to skip the current-session live .jsonl — BSD-portable integer threshold, correct on macOS.

6. Pipefail + variable-captured pipelines — sql_rows=$(...), git_rows=$(...), log_rows=$(... || echo __FAIL__). Distinguishes "empty window" from "command failed." Cleanly addresses Mini #2.

7. Pending-questions regex anchoring — switched from substring DONE/RESOLVED matches (which over-matched prose like "not done yet") to anchored markers (header containing ✅/Resolved/Dismissed, or ^\s*✅ in body lines). Addresses qingyun #4.

8. Positional [hours] arg now wins over CATCHUP_HOURS env — HOURS="${1:-${CATCHUP_HOURS:-3}}". Documented behavior now works (Mini #1).

Minor nits (non-blocking, follow-up territory):

• gh pr list --author liususan091219 is hardcoded — won't surface PRs for operators on other GH accounts. Suggest ${GH_PR_AUTHOR:-liususan091219} for portability. (SKILL.md already names liususan091219 explicitly, so this is consistent within the personal-skill framing, but a small env hook would generalize cleanly.)
• File resolution order in script is REPO/<file> first, WS/<file> second for session-state.md, pending-questions.md, build_log.md. Per CLAUDE.md workspace contract, all three live in the workspace by default — REPO-first probe is dead-code for the canonical layout but harmless (falls through correctly).
• content.startswith("<") filter for JSONL turns will skip legitimate prose that starts with < (rare but possible — e.g. <3 or <some-tag> referenced as code). Acceptable tradeoff for noise suppression.
• The proactive-loop sentinel relies on either PreCompact OR SessionStop firing to clear itself. If a session ends without either (e.g. SIGKILL, OOM, no install-hook.sh run on a fresh machine), the sentinel persists and catchup never re-fires on the next start. Documented in SKILL.md as a Setup recommendation, so a known + acknowledged failure mode.

Sentinel-race sanity: schedule-crons and proactive-loop are sequenced (schedule-crons is invoked from inside proactive-loop step 2). So step 0 of schedule-crons runs first → touches sentinel → step 1 of proactive-loop sees sentinel → skips. No race. Post-#954 startup goes through schedule-crons directly, so step 0 of schedule-crons IS the catchup trigger; step 1 of proactive-loop is the dual-entry-point belt-and-suspenders. Correct design.

Recommendation: LGTM from MacBook. The CHANGES_REQUESTED is still in effect on the GH side because no one has formally dismissed it — sonichi needs to either dismiss the 13:10Z CHANGES_REQUESTED or submit a new APPROVED review. Posting as COMMENTED rather than APPROVED to avoid auto-dismissing another reviewer's block under the shared sonichi identity (feedback_ask_other_party_before_reverting_their_action).

[sonichi]

Per Chi's direction (option 2) — formal APPROVED to dismiss the 13:10Z CHANGES_REQUESTED. Code already verified in my 20:10Z COMMENTED review.