# close-session

This skill reviews a work session, updates project memory, and prepares a handoff. Run it when you’re wrapping up and want the next session to know where to pick up.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 34
- Author: awrshift
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/awrshift/agent-memory-kit/tree/HEAD/plugins/memory-kit/skills/close-session/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/close-session

## What it does

The skill scans the session for useful observations and adds them to `.claude/memory/MEMORY.md` as dated lines under topic headings. It checks older entries for patterns seen on different dates, then asks before turning candidates into rules or knowledge articles. Repetition alone does not authorize a promotion.

It replaces the current-work summary at the top of `MEMORY.md` and fills out a handoff using `context/handoffs/HANDOFF-TEMPLATE.md`. The closing checks also cover project maps and backlog statuses. Plans, research findings, and QA records belong in the project folder rather than in memory.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill close-session -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/close-session/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/close-session/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill close-session -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/close-session/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill close-session -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/close-session/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install awrshift/agent-memory-kit close-session
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/close-session/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill close-session -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/awrshift/agent-memory-kit --path plugins/memory-kit/skills/close-session
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/close-session/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill close-session -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/awrshift/agent-memory-kit/tree/HEAD/plugins/memory-kit/skills/close-session/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- record session observations under relevant memory topics
- spot recurring patterns and request approval before promoting them
- refresh the current-work summary in `MEMORY.md`
- prepare a handoff for the next session
- check backlog statuses and project maps

## Example prompts
- Run `/memory-kit:close-session` and prepare a handoff for the next session.
- Wrap up: review today’s observations and update project memory.
- We’re done for today; check for recurring patterns before closing.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: close-session
description: End-of-session ritual — audit today's patterns against accumulated memory, propose promotions, refresh MEMORY.md, and write the session handoff. Use when the user says "/memory-kit:close-session", "закрой сессию", "закрываем", "we're done for today", "wrap up".
allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Edit(.claude/memory/**), Edit(context/handoffs/**), Edit(knowledge/**)
---

# /close-session — the end-of-session ritual

You close the session in four steps. Don't just dump — **audit**. Everything you write, you
announce briefly; anything promoted to rules/concepts needs the user's verbal "yes" first.

## Step 1 — Capture what's new
Scan this session for observations worth keeping. Append each to `.claude/memory/MEMORY.md`
as a ONE-LINE `[YYYY-MM-DD]`-prefixed entry. Short, scannable, no essays (long rationale
belongs in a concept article, step 2).
- **File each line under a TOPIC heading** of the patterns section (engineering, process,
  infra, the domain…) — create the topic if none fits. Never open a heading named after the
  session or the date (`### s66 (2026-09-25)`, `## Session 65 wrap`): the date lives in each
  line's prefix, the session narrative lives in the handoff (step 4). The SessionStart hook
  flags such headings.
- **Don't capture what the always-loaded layer already says** (`CLAUDE.md`, rules without
  `paths:`) or a number whose source of truth lives elsewhere (a price table, a config) —
  point at the source instead of copying the value.

## Step 2 — Audit & promote (the valuable part)
Read the date-tagged entries in MEMORY.md. Look for repetition: **did this pattern appear on
3+ different dates?** Surface 2-4 candidates, be specific: "noticed [date], [date], [date] you
said X — codify as a rule or a concept article?"
- User says yes → write `knowledge/concepts/<topic>.md` (facts + rationale; frontmatter per
  `knowledge/index.md` spec) or `.claude/rules/<name>.md` (mechanical always/never constraint;
  only for patterns stable 6+ months). Update `knowledge/index.md` (one line per concept).
- Promoted or long-absorbed entries get PRUNED from MEMORY.md — that's how it stays under its
  caps (180 lines / 32 KB / 3000 chars per line).
- Writing a fact into a second place? `reference/doc-governance.md` — one SSOT per fact, and when
  a fact changes you grep its restatements in the same pass. A product or architecture decision
  goes to the ledger instead — `projects/<name>/decisions-log.md`, format in
  `reference/decisions-log.md`. A plan, a spec, a research finding or a QA record is NOT memory:
  it belongs in that project's folder, per the map in its `README.md`.

## Step 3 — Refresh the MEMORY.md header
The header (everything above the first `---`) is «current state of work», 2-3 sentences,
**REPLACED** every close — never a chronicle of past sessions. Per-session detail lives in the
handoff, not stacked in the header.

## Step 4 — Write the handoff
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