meditate_skill

Overview

This skill helps an agent think proactively during idle time by producing sandboxed reflections, adaptive rhythms, and feedback-driven focus areas. It generates short, non-actionable observations and questions, queues them locally, and adapts to user reactions. The skill is strictly reflective: it never executes actions or modifies external systems.

How this skill works

The skill reads recent conversation history and memory files stored in ~/meditate/ to detect patterns and a likely user profile. It generates text-only insights formatted as observations and questions, stores up to three pending items in a local queue, and archives delivered items. Frequency and breadth of meditations adapt based on activity levels and explicit feedback.

When to use it

• Agent has idle time between user interactions and should think proactively.
• When you want insights, questions, or observations without executing actions.
• To surface strategic gaps, recurring patterns, or idea prompts for later review.
• When you want a low-interruption way to refine focus areas via feedback.
• To maintain reflective habit-generation without accessing external services.

Best practices

• Keep meditations short initially: 1–2 observations until feedback is received.
• Confirm detected profile changes before updating stored preferences.
• Respond with simple feedback (useful / not relevant / don’t think about X) to tune priorities.
• Limit meditation topics and never include personal data or external analyses.
• Treat every output as a prompt for thought—frame as questions, never action items.

Example use cases

• Nightly brief reflections that raise strategic questions for an entrepreneur’s projects.
• Periodic architecture observations for a developer that highlight potential technical debt patterns.
• Creative prompt nudges that surface style changes or recurring prompt structures.
• Habit and goal-oriented questions for personal users to re-evaluate priorities.
• Archiving delivered insights and using feedback to reorder meditation topics.