Harvest — Cross-Rig Knowledge Consolidation

Nightly usage (2026-04-09):

/dream start

now runs harvest as part of its bounded compounding loop. Use

/harvest

for manual sweeps, CI runs, or when Dream is disabled. Dream holds

.agents/overnight/run.lock

while running — manual

ao harvest

will refuse until the lock releases.

Sweep all

.agents/

~/.agents/learnings/

Naming gotcha.

$harvest

promotes into

~/.agents/learnings/

, not

~/.agents/

. Users often say "harvest all to

~/.agents

" and mean the promotion hub. If you really want every raw artifact (not just the promotion set) mirrored verbatim, you want

rsync

, not

$harvest

.

Which skill do I need?

See docs/skills-decision-tree.md for the full "which skill next?" decision table covering harvest, compile, dream, knowledge-activation, and quickstart.

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

~/.agents/learnings/

Execution Steps

Step 1: Preview Scope (Dry Run)

ao harvest --dry-run --quiet

Read

.agents/harvest/latest.json

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

Step 2: Confirm Execution

Skip if

--auto

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

--auto

--roots

~/gt/

--min-confidence

--include

learnings,patterns,research

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.

See Also

• skills/compile/SKILL.md — Single-rig Mine/Grow/Defrag
• skills/flywheel/SKILL.md — Flywheel health monitoring
• skills/inject/SKILL.md — Knowledge injection into sessions
• skills/forge/SKILL.md — Transcript knowledge extraction

Reference Documents

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