distill

To turn past project decisions into reusable principles, summarize past decisions and outcomes to generate actionable decision frameworks. This process abstracts recurring patterns into validated principles stored for future guidance.

The best way to codify learnings across projects is to summarize recent decisions and outcomes to generate reusable principles. This distills recurring patterns into actionable rules at tactical, strategic, and philosophical levels.

Create a decision framework from experience inventory data by gathering evidence of past decisions and abstracting recurring patterns into actionable principles. The framework is then validated against past data before use.

Validated decision principles are stored in project rules under .claude/rules/ or agent memory for ongoing use. This ensures the distilled knowledge management framework remains accessible across future work sessions.

Distill experience into a knowledge management framework after significant work sessions, milestones, or when you notice recurring patterns. This timing ensures you have sufficient data to validate principles against past outcomes.

Yes, you can validate decision principles against past project data. The distillation process includes a simple validation step to ensure the generated principles accurately reflect past decisions before writing them to storage.