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# Crystallize Distil a session into durable wiki pages. Valuable knowledge emerges from conversations — decisions reached, patterns discovered, questions resolved. Without crystallization, this knowledge disappears when the session ends. ## What to capture **Keep:** decisions made, patterns established, lessons learned, open questions, current understanding, key findings, agreed frameworks, design rationale. **Discard:** exploratory back-and-forth, dead ends, process chat, superseded drafts, corrections already incorporated. The output is always significantly shorter and more structured than the input. Crystallize distils — it does not transcribe. ## When to crystallize - A decision was reached → crystallize the decision and rationale - New knowledge was absorbed → crystallize into a concept page - A question was resolved → update the page that had the open question - A design was settled → crystallize into a query-result or concept - The chat is getting heavy → crystallize before context degrades - Closing a long thread → crystallize everything worth keeping ## Search for an existing home Before creating anything new, orient with the full wiki map: ``` wiki_list(format: "llms") ``` This produces all pages grouped by type with summaries — a complete map in a single call. Use it to identify existing pages that may cover the same ground, then search for candidates: ``` wiki_search(query: "<topic>") ``` If a concept page, section index, or prior query-result already