Insight Extractor Skill

Insight Extractor Skill

Parse the built-in /insights report and extract actionable items into structured, trackable markdown files.

What it does

Reads ~/.claude/usage-data/report.html (generated by /insights) and extracts:

• Action Items: CLAUDE.md improvements, unfinished tasks, follow-ups
• Useful Prompts & Patterns: Effective interaction strategies and copyable prompts
• Technical Learnings: Debugging insights, friction patterns, what worked
• Workflow Improvements: Better approaches discovered across sessions
• Tool Discoveries: Features to try, new commands, MCP tools
• Automation Candidates: Repetitive tasks that could be automated (tagged #automation-candidate, agent-runnable ones tagged #agent-task)

Usage

Auto mode (default)

/insight-extractor

Extracts all categories, saves everything automatically using configured paths.

Interactive mode

/insight-extractor --interactive

Walks through each category with AskUserQuestion -- cherry-pick items, set priorities, choose which automations get task files.

Configure mode

/insight-extractor --configure

Walk through settings via AskUserQuestion. Configures:

• Insights folder -- where insight files are saved (default: Research/Insights)
• Tasks folder -- where automation task files go (default: Tasks/inbox, or disable)
• Daily notes folder -- where daily notes live (default: Daily)
• MoC file -- which MoC tracks insights (default: MoC - Insights.md, or disable)
• Date format -- YYYYMMDD (compact) or YYYY-MM-DD (ISO)
• Machine name -- include in filenames or not
• Statistics -- include session stats section or not
• Stale threshold -- warn if report older than N days

Settings saved to .claude/skills/insight-extractor/config.json.

Without machine name

/insight-extractor --no-machine

Prerequisites

Run /insights first to generate the report. The extractor reads from:

• ~/.claude/usage-data/report.html (main report)
• ~/.claude/usage-data/facets/ (structured JSON data)

Output

Insight file

Research/Insights/YYYYMMDD-insights-{machine}.md with YAML frontmatter and 6 categorized sections.

Daily note link

Appends to today's Daily/YYYYMMDD.md under ## Insights or ## log.

MoC update

Adds entry to MoC - Insights.md under ## Recent Insights.

Task creation

For each automation candidate, creates Tasks/inbox/YYYYMMDD-automate-{slug}.md.

Interactive Mode Details

In --interactive mode, the skill uses AskUserQuestion at each stage:

1. Action Items: Include all / review each / skip
2. Automation Candidates: Multi-select which ones get task files
3. Priority Override: Keep defaults / prioritize CLAUDE.md items / prioritize automation / custom
4. Personal Notes: Option to add context before saving

Machine-Specific Behavior

Includes hostname in filename by default (2 machines, different session contexts). MoC groups by date across machines.

When to use

• After running /insights: Extract and persist the analysis into your vault
• Weekly review: Process insights, review MoC for patterns across days/machines
• Automation discovery: Find and track repetitive patterns worth automating

Integration

• ~/.claude/usage-data/report.html: Source data
• MoC - Insights.md: Master index
• Daily notes: Quick reference links
• Tasks/inbox/: Automation candidates become actionable
• MoC - Personal Productivity: Session-as-Memory theme