Harvest — Cross-Rig Knowledge Consolidation

Sweep all .agents/ directories across the workspace, extract learnings, patterns, and research, deduplicate cross-rig, and promote high-value items to the global knowledge hub (~/.agents/learnings/).

What This Skill Does

The knowledge flywheel captures learnings per-rig, but they stay siloed. Harvest closes the loop by walking all rigs, extracting artifacts, deduplicating by content hash, and promoting high-confidence items to the global hub where every rig can access them via ao inject.

When to use: Before an evolve cycle, after a burst of development across multiple rigs, or weekly as part of knowledge governance.

Output: .agents/harvest/latest.json (catalog) + promoted files in ~/.agents/learnings/

Execution Steps

Step 1: Preview Scope (Dry Run)

ao harvest --dry-run --quiet

Read .agents/harvest/latest.json and report:

Rigs discovered
Total artifacts extracted
Unique vs duplicate count
Promotion candidates (artifacts >= min confidence)

Step 2: Confirm Execution

Skip if --auto is set. Otherwise, show the dry-run summary and ask:

Harvest will promote N artifacts from M rigs to ~/.agents/learnings/.
Proceed? [Approve / Adjust threshold / Abort]

Step 3: Execute Harvest

ao harvest --roots ~/gt/ --promote-to ~/.agents/learnings --min-confidence 0.5

Step 4: Post-Harvest Cleanup

Run dedup on the promotion target to clean up any remaining duplicates:

ao dedup --merge ~/.agents/learnings/ 2>/dev/null || true

Step 5: Report Results

Report to user:

Rigs scanned
Artifacts extracted and unique count
Duplicates found (with top duplicate groups)
Artifacts promoted (with provenance)
Top discoveries (highest-confidence cross-rig patterns)

Flags

Flag	Default	Description
`--auto`	off	Skip confirmation gate
`--roots`	`~/gt/`	Override root directories to scan
`--min-confidence`	0.5	Minimum confidence for promotion
`--include`	`learnings,patterns,research`	Artifact types to extract

Quick Start

/harvest                          # Full sweep with confirmation
/harvest --auto                   # Hands-free sweep
/harvest --min-confidence 0.7     # Only promote high-confidence items
/harvest --roots ~/gt/,~/projects/ # Scan additional directories

Governance

See references/governance.md for ongoing governance model: size budgets, sweep frequency, staleness thresholds, and cross-rig synthesis triggers.

Reference Documents

references/governance.md — Governance model for ongoing knowledge consolidation

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