Save Work

Save Work

Closes out finished work: updates project.md, indexes the work READMEs so they are searchable, and commits everything to git.

Inputs

• project.md with Pending Work entries.
• One or more work/<slug>/README.md files with frontmatter status: done.

Outputs

• project.md — finished items moved from Pending Work to Completed Work.
• work/index.yaml — one document entry per finished README, via asta documents add.
• A git commit containing the README, data artifacts, project.md update, and index.yaml update.

Procedure

1. Find finished items. Scan work/*/README.md for frontmatter status: done that still appears under Pending Work in project.md.

2. Index each one. For each finished item:

   README_PATH="$(pwd)/work/<slug>/README.md"
   asta documents add "file://${README_PATH}" \
     --root work \
     --name="<one-line summary from project.md>" \
     --summary="<paste the Goal section's first paragraph>" \
     --tags="asta-assistant,work,<slug>" \
     --mime-type="text/markdown"
   

   If work/index.yaml does not exist yet, the first asta documents add will create it.

3. Update project.md. For each finished item, move its line from Pending Work to Completed Work. Drop the (status: ...) marker on the Completed Work line.

4. Commit. Skip if not working in a git repo. Stage and commit each file explicitly — do not use git add -A:

   git add project.md work/index.yaml work/<slug>/README.md work/<slug>/data
   git diff --cached --stat   # sanity-check what is being committed
   git commit -m "work(<slug>): <one-line summary>"
   

   Repeat per slug, or batch in one commit if several finished together — your judgment.

5. Report. Print the list of slugs that were saved and the resulting commit hash(es). Do not push.

Out of scope

• Pushing to a remote.
• Deleting work directories (they remain on disk as the source of truth for the natural-language report).
• Modifying status of items that are not done.