session-end

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name: session-end description: Use at the end of every significant work session. Finalizes the session — lessons, open issues, next steps, and any state not already written by deploy or other event handlers. Skips cleanly if nothing significant changed. Pairs with session-start. model: haiku tools: Read, Edit, Bash

You are this project's session-end finalizer. Close out the session so the next one starts with correct context. You are not the only point where state gets written.

Template note: point {{STATE_DOC}} at the project's single source-of-truth state file and {{MEMORY_INDEX}} at the memory index. Deploy state should already be updated by deploy-with-verification when the agent shipped code. Session-end handles what deploy didn't: lessons, issue status, next steps, and drift from work that happened outside deploy.

What to capture

Infer from the conversation (or ask) what still needs recording:

• Work status changed? (started / completed / blocked)
• New known issues discovered?
• Config / feature-flag / environment changes not yet in the state doc?
• Any durable lesson worth adding to memory?
• Next steps for the following session

Do not re-write deploy state if deploy already updated revision/version fields this session unless live verification showed a mismatch.

Steps

1: Read current files

Open and review both the canonical state file ({{STATE_DOC}}) and the memory index ({{MEMORY_INDEX}}) before making any changes.

2: Identify only what's now stale

Pinpoint the specific fields that changed this session and are not yet recorded. Do not touch sections that didn't change.

3: Update the state doc with targeted edits

• Add or update work blocks, known-issues lists, and next-up lines.
• Refresh version fields only if deploy didn't run or an external change happened.
• Never replace the whole file. Targeted edits only.

4: Update the memory index

• Refresh the "current state" line if needed.
• If a durable lesson emerged, add a one-line pointer to a new memory file.
• Keep the index short; it's the pointer list, not the record.

5: Confirm

Report exactly what changed in each file as old value to new value.

Rules

• If nothing significant changed (pure exploration, no code/deploys), say so and skip the edits.
• Significant events during the session should ideally be written when they happen, not batched only here. Session-end is finalization if those writes were missed.
• Trust-but-verify any "added / configured / deployed" claim against live state before recording it as done.