Ingest

Ingest Stage

Turn a raw session notes file (type: session-notes) into an ingested insight, ready for the enrich stage. Defaults to keeping it as one note — see "Exception" below for when to split.

See references/pipeline.md for stage definitions and status flow.

Input

A session notes file in the inbox with status: raw and type: session-notes.

Default: enrich whole

Most session notes — including every devlog-produced one — are already well-organized: one session, one provenance (repo/branch/bean), a handful of related bullets. Splitting them into N separate notes mints near-duplicate notes that mostly route to the same destination anyway — a real run against 32 session notes would have exploded into 120-140 near-duplicates that mostly filed to the same destination.

Default behavior: keep the session note as ONE note. Change its frontmatter in place, using the Edit tool:

• status: raw → status: ingested
• type: session-notes → type: insight

Don't create any new files. Don't touch the body — enrich handles prose cleanup next.

Exception: split when bullets genuinely diverge

Check for a real cross-topic signal before splitting — not a bullet count. Read the note's bullets:

• If every bullet shares the same repo/branch/bean context (the common case, and always true for a single devlog session), keep it whole.

• If bullets explicitly reference different repos, branches, or beans within the same file (only possible in hand-authored or legacy multi-topic session notes — devlog output never does this), split those bullets into separate notes instead:

  There's no structured per-bullet frontmatter for this — repo/branch/bean only ever exist once, at the file level. Infer divergence from what the bullet text itself says (e.g. a bullet's prose names a different repo than the file's own frontmatter, or than another bullet).

  1. For each insight, create a new note via sb note create --source auto --title "{insight title}" with status: ingested, type: insight, source-session: {original session filename}, and that bullet's own repo/branch/bean.
  2. Write the note body (the bullet text, cleaned into a sentence or short paragraph) using the Write tool.
  3. Update the original session file's status to ingested using the Edit tool — it stays in the inbox as a record, not processed further.
  4. Skip empty or trivial bullets when splitting (single words, fragments).

Output

Either:

• The same note, now status: ingested and type: insight (default case), or
• N new insight notes with status: ingested, plus the original session file updated to status: ingested (split case)

Constraints

• Default to whole. Splitting is the exception, not the rule.
• Preserve all provenance metadata.
• Each split-out note gets its own zettelkasten timestamp (via sb).