Discover Workflows

Discover Workflows

Goal

Find repeated local workflows and turn them into concise, user-approved dotfiles suggestions that reduce typing, navigation, or context switching.

Workflow

1. Run scripts/discover_workflows.py from this skill directory. It reads Bash history, Emacs savehist/recentf data, and local ActivityWatch when available. Pass explicit paths when the user's configuration uses another history location.
2. Present the ranked suggestions with frequency evidence, the proposed dotfiles owner, and the expected benefit. Describe patterns, not raw history lines, prompts, URLs, credentials, or private paths.
3. Ask the user which suggestions to implement. Do not edit dotfiles merely because a command is frequent; frequency is evidence, not authorization.
4. For approved changes, follow the user's existing dotfiles ownership and literate-source rules. Validate the generated/runtime result and report any pre-existing failures separately.

Rules

• Treat all history as sensitive local input. The script skips likely secrets, redacts paths, and emits only command families, safe Emacs command names, broad project roots, and application categories.
• Prefer a small alias, shell function, Emacs command/keybinding, project jump, or Qtile rule only when the repeated pattern is stable enough to name.
• Keep suggestions reversible and specific. Do not install packages, publish history, or modify a configuration without explicit user approval.
• If a history source is missing or ActivityWatch is unavailable, say so and continue with the sources that are present.