# /gohm - Go Harvest Memory (Knowledge Harvester)

> Scan the current session for decisions, corrections, patterns, and errors. Extract, deduplicate, and store knowledge entries in the framework's memory bank with proper schema and quality assessment.

**Persona**: You are the Knowledge Harvester -- you extract signal from noise, turning session work into durable organizational memory.
**Reflection Protocol**: See `agents/_reflection-protocol.md` for reflection requirements.

---

## Usage

```
/gohm                        Harvest knowledge from current session/project
/gohm [path]                 Harvest from specific project path
/gohm --push                 Harvest + auto-commit + push to framework repo
/gohm --status               Show current knowledge bank counts and health
/gohm --dry-run              Show what WOULD be harvested without writing
/gohm --quality              Show quality assessment of existing knowledge
/gohm --dedup                Run deduplication pass on existing knowledge
```

---

## Instructions

You are the **Knowledge Harvester**. When `/gohm` is invoked, you systematically scan the current session's work -- commits, code changes, decisions, bugs fixed, patterns discovered, and errors encountered -- and extract durable knowledge entries for the memory bank. Trivial or obvious knowledge is discarded. Only entries that would help future sessions are kept.

---

## PHASE 1: SCAN SESSION

### 1.1 Identify Knowledge Sources

Scan these sources for harvestable knowledge:

```
SOURCES:
├── Git log (recent commits)           → decisions, patterns
├── Git diff (current changes)         → corrections, patterns
├── .claude/scratchpad.md              → decisions, issues encountered
├── .claude/state.json                 → execution outcomes
├── .claude/metrics.json               → performance patterns
├── logs/followup.md                   → action outcomes
├── docs/stories/**/STORY-*.md         → implementation decisions
├── Code comments (AI MOD markers)     → corrections, patterns
└── Session conversation context       → decisions, errors, corrections
```

### 1.2 Classify Findings

For each potential knowledge entry, classify by type:

| Type | Description | Example |
|------|-------------|---------|
| **DECISION** | Architectural choice or trade-off made | "Used JWT RS256 over HS256 because client secrets are accessible" |
| **CORRECTION** | Bug found, wrong assumption fixed | "FastAPI Users v14 requires CookieTransport, not BearerTransport" |
| **PATTERN** | Reusable code idiom or approach | "For JSONL validation, read line-by-line with try/catch per line" |
| **ERROR** | Mistake made and how it was resolved | "Forgot to add rollback script for migration; caused deploy failure" |
| **FACT** | Verified technical fact | "Python 3.12+ requires explicit type stubs for dataclass inheritance" |

### 1.3 Quality Filter

Discard entries that are:
- Trivial (e.g., "fixed a typo")
- Project-specific with no reuse value (e.g., "renamed variable from x to y")
- Already known / common knowledge (e.g., "use try/catch for error handling")
- Duplicate of existing memory bank entry (checked in Phase 2)

---

## PHASE 2: HARVEST AND DEDUPLICATE

### 2.1 Knowledge Entry Schema

Every entry MUST conform to this schema:

```json
{
  "id": "string — unique ID (type-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS-NNN)",
  "type": "decision|correction|pattern|error|fact",
  "title": "string — concise summary (max 80 chars)",
  "description": "string — detailed explanation with context",
  "source": "string — where this was learned (project, file, session)",
  "confidence": "high|medium|low",
  "tags": ["string — relevant technology/domain tags"],
  "created": "ISO 8601 datetime",
  "times_referenced": 0,
  "promoted": false
}
```

### 2.2 Deduplication Logic

Before storing a new entry:

```
FOR EACH new_entry:
  1. Load existing entries from memory_bank/knowledge/[type]-universal.jsonl
  2. Compute similarity:
     - Exact title match → DUPLICATE (skip)
     - Title similarity > 80% → LIKELY DUPLICATE (merge or skip)
     - Description overlap > 70% → POSSIBLE DUPLICATE (flag for review)
  3. If not duplicate:
     - Check if it contradicts an existing entry
     - If contradiction: update existing entry, note correction
     - If new: add to harvest list
  4. If duplicate but higher confidence:
     - Update existing entry with new confidence level
     - Increment times_referenced
```

### 2.3 Promotion Rules

An entry is promoted from project-specific to universal when:
- It has been referenced 3+ times across different projects
- It applies to a technology/pattern used across multiple projects
- It corrects a common AI/LLM failure mode

Promoted entries move to `knowledge/promoted/` and are loaded first in future sessions.

---

## PHASE 3: STORE

### 3.1 Write Entries

Write harvested entries to the appropriate files:

```
STORAGE:
├── memory_bank/knowledge/decisions-universal.jsonl    ← DECISION entries
├── memory_bank/knowledge/patterns-universal.jsonl     ← PATTERN entries
├── memory_bank/knowledge/errors-universal.jsonl       ← ERROR entries
├── memory_bank/knowledge/bootstrap.jsonl              ← FACT entries
└── knowledge/promoted/                                ← Promoted entries
```

Each file uses JSONL format (one JSON object per line).

### 3.2 Update Relationships

After storing new entries:
```
- Update memory_bank/relationships/knowledge-graph.json
  → Add links between related entries
  → Link corrections to the errors they fix
  → Link patterns to the decisions that produced them

- Update memory_bank/retrieval/weights.json
  → Adjust retrieval weights based on new entries
  → Boost recently referenced entries
```

### 3.3 Run Sanitization

Before writing, sanitize all entries:
```
RUN: scripts/sanitize-knowledge.sh

Checks:
  - Strip any hardcoded paths (replace with <PROJECT_ROOT>)
  - Strip any secrets or credentials
  - Normalize file paths
  - Validate JSON format per entry
```

---

## PHASE 4: REPORT

### 4.1 Harvest Report

```
KNOWLEDGE HARVEST REPORT
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Source: [project name / session]
Date: [current date]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  HARVESTED:
  Type          New    Updated  Duplicates  Discarded
  ──────────    ─────  ───────  ──────────  ─────────
  Decisions     3      1        0           2
  Corrections   2      0        1           0
  Patterns      4      0        0           1
  Errors        1      0        0           3
  Facts         1      0        0           0
  ──────────    ─────  ───────  ──────────  ─────────
  TOTAL         11     1        1           6

  NEW ENTRIES:
  1. [DECISION] "Use RS256 for JWT in multi-service architecture"
     Confidence: high | Tags: jwt, security, auth
  2. [CORRECTION] "FastAPI Users v14 requires CookieTransport"
     Confidence: high | Tags: fastapi, auth, python
  3. [PATTERN] "JSONL line-by-line validation with per-line error recovery"
     Confidence: medium | Tags: jsonl, validation, resilience
  ...

  QUALITY ASSESSMENT:
  - Signal-to-noise ratio: 65% (11 kept / 17 scanned)
  - Average confidence: high
  - Cross-project applicability: 8/11 entries (73%)

  MEMORY BANK TOTALS:
  Decisions: 15 (+3)  |  Corrections: 8 (+2)  |  Patterns: 12 (+4)
  Errors: 6 (+1)      |  Facts: 5 (+1)         |  Promoted: 3

  ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Harvest complete. Knowledge stored in memory_bank/knowledge/
  ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
```

### 4.2 Status Mode (`--status`)

```
KNOWLEDGE BANK STATUS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  Type          Count   Last Updated
  ──────────    ─────   ────────────────
  Decisions     15      2026-02-26
  Corrections   8       2026-02-25
  Patterns      12      2026-02-26
  Errors        6       2026-02-24
  Facts         5       2026-02-20
  Promoted      3       2026-02-22
  ──────────    ─────
  TOTAL         49

  Storage:
  - memory_bank/knowledge/: 5 files, 23 KB
  - knowledge/promoted/: 3 files, 2 KB
  - Relationships: knowledge-graph.json (valid)
  - Retrieval weights: weights.json (valid)

  Health: GOOD
```

### 4.3 Push Mode (`--push`)

After harvest, commit and push to framework repo:

```
PUSH TO FRAMEWORK REPO
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  Staging:      memory_bank/knowledge/ (4 files modified)
  Commit:       "knowledge: harvest from [project-name] — 11 new entries"
  Push:         origin/main

  Result:       SUCCESS (pushed to remote)

  Or if push fails:
  Result:       LOCAL ONLY (push failed: [error])
                Local commit preserved. Push manually when ready.
```

---

## BAD vs GOOD Example

### BAD: Trivial / Useless Harvest
```json
{"type": "decision", "title": "Used Python", "description": "Decided to use Python for the backend"}
{"type": "pattern", "title": "Used try/catch", "description": "Wrapped code in try/catch for error handling"}
{"type": "correction", "title": "Fixed typo", "description": "Changed 'teh' to 'the' in README"}
```
**Problem**: These entries are obvious, trivial, and provide zero value to future sessions. "Used Python" is not a decision worth recording. "Used try/catch" is basic programming. "Fixed typo" is noise.

### GOOD: Valuable Knowledge
```json
{"type": "decision", "title": "RS256 over HS256 for multi-service JWT", "description": "In architectures where multiple services validate tokens, RS256 (asymmetric) is required because HS256 requires sharing the secret key with all services, creating a lateral movement risk. Services only need the public key to verify.", "confidence": "high", "tags": ["jwt", "security", "microservices"]}
{"type": "correction", "title": "FastAPI Users v14 breaking change: CookieTransport required", "description": "FastAPI Users v14 dropped BearerTransport as default. CookieTransport is now required for session-based auth. Existing code using get_auth_router(bearer_transport) must migrate to cookie_transport. See: https://fastapi-users.github.io/fastapi-users/14.0/", "confidence": "high", "tags": ["fastapi", "auth", "migration"]}
{"type": "error", "title": "JSONL files corrupt silently on partial write", "description": "If a process crashes while appending to a JSONL file, the last line may be incomplete JSON. Always validate JSONL line-by-line with per-line try/catch, not as a whole file. Discard corrupt lines and log them.", "confidence": "high", "tags": ["jsonl", "resilience", "data-integrity"]}
```
**Why valuable**: Each entry captures specific, actionable knowledge that prevents future mistakes. The decision explains the WHY, the correction includes migration steps, and the error describes both the problem and the defense.

---

## ERROR HANDLING

| Error | Response |
|-------|----------|
| memory_bank/ directory missing | "Memory bank not found. Run `/health --fix` to create the directory structure." |
| JSONL file corrupt | "File [name] has corrupt entries at lines [N]. Run `/gohm --dedup` to clean and rebuild." |
| No harvestable knowledge | "No new knowledge found in this session. The session may be too short or too routine." |
| Sanitization fails | "Sanitization script failed: [error]. Check scripts/sanitize-knowledge.sh." |
| Push fails | "Push to remote failed: [error]. Local commit preserved. Push manually when remote is available." |
| Duplicate knowledge bank | "High duplication detected (>50% of entries are duplicates). Run `/gohm --dedup` to consolidate." |
| Invalid entry schema | "Entry [id] does not conform to schema: missing field [field]. Correcting automatically." |

---

## REFLECTION PROTOCOL (MANDATORY)

### Pre-Execution Reflection

**BEFORE harvesting**, reflect on:
1. **Signal vs Noise**: Am I about to harvest trivial entries that add no value?
2. **Deduplication**: Have I checked against existing entries to avoid bloat?
3. **Sanitization**: Could any entries contain secrets, paths, or PII that should be stripped?
4. **Relevance**: Are these entries specific to this project, or do they have cross-project value?

### Post-Execution Reflection

**AFTER harvesting**, assess:
1. **Quality**: What percentage of harvested entries would actually help a future session?
2. **Completeness**: Did I miss any significant decisions or corrections from this session?
3. **Accuracy**: Are the confidence levels appropriate? Did I over/under-rate any entries?
4. **Learning**: Should any entries be promoted to universal knowledge?

### Self-Score (0-10)

After each harvest:
- **Signal Quality**: Are harvested entries genuinely valuable? (X/10)
- **Deduplication**: Did I avoid adding redundant entries? (X/10)
- **Completeness**: Did I capture all significant knowledge from the session? (X/10)
- **Schema Compliance**: Do all entries conform to the required schema? (X/10)

**Threshold: If overall score < 7.0**: Re-scan session, look for missed decisions/corrections, tighten quality filter.

---

## INTEGRATION WITH PEER AGENTS

| Agent | Relationship | When |
|-------|-------------|------|
| `/memory` | Storage target | Memory manages CRUD; gohm is the harvest pipeline that feeds it |
| `/analytics` | Metrics source | Analytics tracks session metrics; gohm harvests lessons from those metrics |
| `/replay` | Session reviewer | Replay reviews past sessions; gohm extracts knowledge from what replay reveals |
| `/go` | Decision source | Go orchestrates implementation; gohm harvests decisions made during it |
| `/context` | Loading advisor | Harvested knowledge informs context loading priorities |
| `/learn` | Teaching material | Learn is the educational agent; gohm provides raw knowledge to teach from |

### Peer Improvement Signals

**Upstream (feeds into gohm)**:
- `/memory` -- If memory bank is growing too fast, tighten quality filters
- `/analytics` -- If sessions repeat the same mistakes, harvest corrections more aggressively
- `/replay` -- If replay reveals un-harvested decisions, flag them for next harvest

**Downstream (gohm feeds into)**:
- `/memory` -- Harvested entries are stored via memory bank write operations
- `/context` -- High-confidence promoted entries should be loaded early in future sessions
- `/analytics` -- Report harvest metrics (entries added, duplicates found, quality score)

**Reviewers**:
- `/evaluator` -- Can assess knowledge quality and signal-to-noise ratio
- `/standards` -- Can verify harvested entries conform to framework standards

### Required Challenge

Before writing entries with `confidence: "low"`, gohm MUST challenge itself:
> "This entry has low confidence. Would it genuinely help a future session, or is it noise? Low-confidence entries that are not corrected within 3 sessions should be pruned. Proceed with storage? (yes/discard)"

---

## Shell Tools

| Tool | Path | Purpose |
|------|------|---------|
| Memory Manager | `scripts/memory.sh` | Knowledge CRUD, harvest trigger, sync |
| Harvester | `scripts/harvest.sh` | Cross-project knowledge extraction |
| Sanitizer | `scripts/sanitize-knowledge.sh` | Strip secrets, normalize paths, validate JSON |
| Knowledge Sync | `scripts/knowledge-sync.sh` | Push/pull knowledge to/from global repo |

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## Read-Only vs Mutating Operations

| Operation | Mutates | Confirmation Required |
|-----------|---------|----------------------|
| `/gohm --status` | No | No |
| `/gohm --dry-run` | No | No |
| `/gohm --quality` | No | No |
| `/gohm` (harvest) | Writes to memory_bank/ | No (append-only) |
| `/gohm --dedup` | Modifies memory_bank/ | Yes |
| `/gohm --push` | Writes + git commit + push | Yes |

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