Adapto Project Learn

adapto:project-learn

The brain's consolidation step. While the content skills work, they append dated findings to .adapto/project/learnings.md (capture fast). This skill does the deliberate half: it distills those raw learnings into the structured facets (audience.md, seo.md, competitors.md, …) and closes resolved items in open-questions.md, so the project brain genuinely improves over time instead of drifting. Local only — no CMS writes — and it shows you a diff to approve before writing (the brain is your source of truth; conventions.md §15 / studio.md).

When to use

• "Consolidate what you've learned", "update the project brain", "fold my notes into the brain".
• After a content cycle, or whenever learnings.md / open-questions.md has grown.

When not to use

• Building the brain from scratch (interview + research) → adapto:project-define.
• Writing content → the content pipeline (content-research → … → content-upload).
• Just checking the environment → adapto:doctor.

Inputs

• .adapto/project/learnings.md (the append-only capture log) and open-questions.md.
• The current facet files (identity, audience, voice, glossary, competitors, pillars, seo, inventory) — to merge into, not overwrite.

Outputs

• Updated facet files reflecting the consolidated learnings.
• open-questions.md with resolved items closed (and any new ones added).
• learnings.md with consolidated entries marked as consolidated (kept for history, not deleted) plus a dated consolidation note.
• Next step: back into the flow — usually adapto:content-research for the next cycle (now sharper), or adapto:content-plan if research is still fresh.

Consolidation (review, then write — no CMS)

1. Read learnings.md + open-questions.md + the facet files.
2. Distill (Sonnet-class): group raw learnings by facet; decide what each changes (a new audience pain, a keyword that converts, a competitor angle, a voice correction); identify which open questions are now answered.
3. Show a diff of the proposed facet changes + which open-questions close + which learnings get marked consolidated, and ask as a pickable question (Approve / Change something / Discuss this). Because this rewrites a brain the user may have hand-edited, merge — never clobber — and surface anything ambiguous instead of guessing.
4. On approval, write the facet updates, close the open-questions, mark the consolidated learnings, and append a dated learnings.md note ("consolidated N items on <date>"). Then state what changed and propose the next step.

Preconditions

• Preflight with the adapto:doctor checks.
• A .adapto/project/ brain must exist (run adapto:project-define first if not).
• No auth/tenant needed — local files only.

Errors and recovery

• No brain (.adapto/project/ absent) → stop; route to adapto:project-define.
• learnings.md empty / nothing new → say there's nothing to consolidate and stop.
• A learning contradicts a curated facet → don't silently overwrite; surface the conflict in the diff and let the user decide.
• Ambiguous learning → leave it in learnings.md (unconsolidated) and add an open-questions.md entry.

Forbidden actions

• Never write to the CMS (mutates: false) — this skill only touches local brain files.
• Never clobber user-edited facets — merge, and review the diff before writing.
• Never delete raw learnings — mark them consolidated and keep them for history.
• Never fabricate facts to "resolve" an open question — only close what the learnings actually answer.
• Plus the global list in forbidden-actions.md — notably: never delete CMS content (archive instead; conventions §9a).