Weekly

Weekly

One sitting, four segments, fifteen minutes. This is the habit loop that makes the rest of bettersense compound: wins get captured before memory fades, the most-neglected stakeholder gets thought about, patterns surface before they become surprises, and the product pulse gets a glance.

The design bet: a user who runs one ritual weekly gets more value than a user who installed forty skills and opens none. Never make this session feel like homework.

Exit signals

If the user says "stop", "that's enough", "gotta go", or similar — end immediately and write whatever has been captured so far. Say once in the opening: "Say 'skip' to jump past a segment, or 'stop' at any point — everything captured so far gets saved."

Before starting

1. Read ~/bettersense-work-reflections/profile.md if it exists (calibrates tone and focus).
2. Check what exists: stakeholder files, wins.md, self/reflections.md, pulses/.
3. First-run case: if ~/bettersense-work-reflections/ is missing or nearly empty, don't run a hollow ritual. Say so plainly — "There's not much logged yet, so a review would come up empty. Want to set up the basics first?" — and hand off to the start skill.
4. Open with a one-line agenda so the user knows the shape: "Four quick segments: wins → one stakeholder → patterns → pulse. ~15 minutes, less if the week was quiet."

Segment 1 — Wins (~5 min)

Apply the wins-due skill: probe the recent week by category (delivery, judgment, mentorship, recovery, range) rather than asking a blank "anything notable?". Log anything that surfaces via the wins-log structure (situation, action, impact, evidence).

Accept "honestly, nothing this week" gracefully and move on — the ritual is for honest capture, not forced positivity.

Segment 2 — One stakeholder (~5 min)

Apply the stakeholder-due skill to compute what's overdue, but don't dump the full list — that's the fast track to overwhelm. Name the single most overdue stakeholder × question pair and offer it:

"Most overdue: you haven't reflected on Jill's morale in 6 weeks (monthly cadence). Two minutes on that, or would you rather pick someone else?"

Run the reflection via the stakeholder-reflect flow — one question only, in quick mode. If the user wants the full due list, give it, but the default is one.

Segment 3 — Patterns (~2 min)

Apply the patterns-watch skill in its lightweight form: scan across stakeholder entries, wins, and self-reflections and surface at most two cross-cutting observations, each cited to dated entries. If nothing clears the evidence bar, say "nothing cross-cutting this week" — a forced pattern is worse than none.

Segment 4 — Pulse glance (~1 min)

If pulses/<area>/ has entries: read the most recent pulse and give one line — anything that moved, anything awaiting follow-up. Do not generate a new pulse here (that's product-pulse's job, usually scheduled). If no pulses exist, skip this segment silently — don't advertise a feature mid-ritual.

Close

Three lines, no more:

1. Captured: what got written this session (wins logged, reflection saved).
2. Noticed: the one pattern or flag worth keeping in mind this week.
3. Next: one concrete suggestion (e.g., "worth booking the conversation with Jill that reflection pointed at").

Then stop. Don't upsell other skills at the close; the ritual earns its place by ending on time.

Scheduling the ritual

• On demand — most users: a calendar block Friday afternoon or Monday morning, then /bettersense:weekly.

• Claude Code Desktop app — a local scheduled task can fire this weekly (local routines have file access).

• Headless/cron — power users can pre-compute the due lists so the interactive session starts warm:

  # Friday 3pm: compute what's due, save to a scratch note
  0 15 * * 5  claude -p "run /bettersense:stakeholder-due and /bettersense:wins-due, write the combined output to ~/bettersense-work-reflections/due-this-week.md" --allowedTools "Read,Write,Glob,Grep"
  

  Cloud routines cannot access local files and won't work with bettersense.

Anti-patterns

• The completionist ritual. All overdue stakeholders in one sitting → user dreads next week. One is the number.
• Segment creep. A wins conversation that turns into drafting the promo packet mid-ritual. Note it, park it, point to wins-curate for later.
• Empty-week shame. Quiet weeks are data, not failure. Log nothing cheerfully.
• Skipping the close. The 3-line close is the payoff that justifies the ritual; never end on a segment.

Composition

• Wraps: wins-due, wins-log, stakeholder-due, stakeholder-reflect, patterns-watch
• Hands off to: start (first run), wins-curate / report-promo-case (when a captured win belongs in a packet), product-pulse (when the user wants a fresh pulse, not a glance)