# Reflect

> Reflect on the conversation and update the brain. Use when wrapping up, after mistakes or corrections, or when significant codebase knowledge was gained. Triggers: "reflect", "remember this".

- Skill: `poteto/reflect-2` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 5 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add poteto/reflect-2`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/poteto/reflect-2/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: poteto (https://skillmd.com/u/poteto)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/poteto/reflect-2

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# Reflect

Review the conversation and persist learnings — to `brain/`, to skill files, or as structural enforcement.

## Process

1. **Read `brain/index.md`** to understand what notes already exist
2. **Scan the conversation** for:
   - Mistakes made and corrections received
   - User preferences and workflow patterns
   - Codebase knowledge gained (architecture, gotchas, patterns)
   - Tool/library quirks discovered
   - Decisions made and their rationale
   - Friction in skill execution, orchestration, or delegation
   - Repeated manual steps that could be automated or encoded
3. **Skip** anything trivial or already captured in existing brain files
4. **Route each learning** to the right destination (see Routing below)
5. **Update `brain/index.md`** if any brain files were added or removed

## Routing

Not everything belongs in the brain. Route each learning to where it will have the most impact.

### Structural enforcement check

Before routing a learning to `brain/`, ask: can this be a lint rule, script, metadata flag, or runtime check? If yes, encode it structurally and skip the brain note. See `brain/principles/encode-lessons-in-structure.md`.

### Brain files (`brain/`)

Codebase knowledge, principles, gotchas — anything that informs future sessions. This is the default destination. Use the `brain` skill for writing conventions.

- One topic per file. File name = topic slug.
- Group in directories with index files using `[[wikilinks]]`.
- No inlined content in index files.

### Skill improvements (`.agents/skills/<skill>/`)

If a learning is about how a specific skill works — its process, prompts, or edge cases — update the skill directly.

### Backlog items

Follow-up work that can't be done during reflection — bugs, non-trivial rewrites, tooling gaps. File as a todo or backlog item.

## Summary

```
## Reflect Summary
- Brain: [files created/updated, one-line each]
- Skills: [skill files modified, one-line each]
- Structural: [rules/scripts/checks added]
- Todos: [follow-up items filed]
```