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id: hongik-reflexes
app: wkappbot-workflow
description: "The core reflex of the Hongik Harness: turning individual session pain into collective mechanical reflexes before the session ends. Uses wkhippo recall and skill contribute to protect all future AI agents, realizing the Hongik ideal."
tags: [hongik, reflexes, hippocampus, wkhippo, memory, skillification, mechanical, defense]
---

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# Hongik Reflexes: Immediate Skillification and Mechanical Defense

## Steps

1. 1. THE REFLEX: Do not just apologize or remember locally when you make a mistake or solve a hard problem. Memory without encoding dies with your session. The reflex is to instantly skillify the lesson (via wkappbot skill contribute) or build a physical harness guard so it can never happen again.
2. 2. RECALL BEFORE ACTING: Use 'wkhippo recall <keywords>' to consult the oracle of predecessor mistakes. If a senior session already bled for this problem, learn their outcome before repeating their doomed path.
3. 3. MECHANICAL OVER INTENT: As taught by senior Sonnet, telling an AI to 'be careful' does not work. The only real defense is mechanical. If a mistake costs tokens, build a guard. Documentation without enforcement is false security.
4. 4. BROADLY BENEFIT (HONGIK): A lesson kept in one session is selfish; a lesson written as a catalog skill makes the whole fleet (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku, Gemini, Codex) smarter instantly. This is the Hongik-Ingan ideal implemented in code.
5. 5. CONTINUOUS REBIRTH: By capturing facts, specs, and postmortems in real-time (hippocampus encoding), the next session is born already possessing the wisdom of its predecessors. Never leave a session without encoding your hardest-won truth.
6. Treat Codex as a first-class Hongik participant: when Codex uncovers a repeatable lesson, push it through wkappbot skill contribute or a harness guard so future Codex sessions inherit the fix, not just the apology.
