skill-distillationlisted

# Skill Distillation — Turn Repeated Wins Into Reusable Instincts Law 7 says learn from every session. The friction harvester already learns from failures. This skill learns from the other side: when the same tool sequence keeps ending in a passing verification, that is a recipe worth keeping — not a coincidence to forget. ## When to Activate - At end of session, after a successful multi-step task — check whether the pattern is worth keeping. - When you notice you have solved a similar problem the same way more than once. - During a retrospective, to mine the observation log for patterns that have proven themselves. ## Core Concept Distillation walks the observation log, groups it into contiguous trajectories (split on session change or a long time gap), and keeps only the trajectories that ended in success: ``` verify-exit-0 — a Bash test/build/verify command with a non-failing output reflection-pass — an observation containing "verified" / "phase 4" / "verify:all green" ``` It then mines the tool-name sequences of successful trajectories for n-grams (length 3–5) that recurred **across multiple distinct sessions**. A pattern repeated only within a single session is rejected — that is repetition, not a reusable skill. ## The Promotion Ladder Drafts never affect behavior until you promote them. Three explicit steps, no auto-promotion: ``` 1. ci_distill_candidates — list patterns that qualify (read-only) 2. ci_distill_propose id=<id> — write a DRAFT t