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Summarize Scratchpads by tomevault-io

Name: Summarize Scratchpads
Author: tomevault-io

Summarize Scratchpads

Compress today's and yesterday's scratchpad entries across all agents into a structured 20-30 line summary. Use this to quickly orient on multi-agent state without reading every scratchpad. Use when this capability is needed.

tomevault-io e755546 2 files · 2.5 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

Task

Read all scratchpad entries from today and yesterday across all agents in .claude/scratchpad/*/, then produce a compressed cross-agent summary.

$ARGUMENTS

Steps

Use Glob to find all .claude/scratchpad/*/????-??-??.md files
Filter to today's and yesterday's dates (check the two most recent dates present)
Read each file
Synthesize into the output format below

Output Format

Return a 20-30 line structured summary:

## Scratchpad Summary — [date range]

### In Progress
- [Agent]: [what they're working on, key decisions made]

### Blocked
- [Agent]: [what's blocking them, who/what could unblock]

### Tensions
- [Between which agents, about what — naming conflicts, interface mismatches, disagreements]

### Unresolved
- [Open questions that no agent has answered yet]

### Notable
- [Key cross-agent observations, important corrections, process insights]

Rules

Keep it under 30 lines. This is a compression tool, not a verbatim copy.
Flag agents that should have written scratchpads but didn't (based on recent git activity).
Flag stale agents: if an agent has a definition in .claude/agents/ but its most recent scratchpad is >5 days old, note it. Stale signals decay 2.4x faster (drift research).
If an agent's scratchpad is over 80 lines, flag it as bloat (per multi-agent protocol).
Prioritize tensions and unresolved items — those drive the next OODA cycle.

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