ejs-session-wrapup

EJS Session Wrap-Up

Use this skill when a session is ending — for example when the user says "wrap up", "finalize session", "end session", "ship it", "commit this", or "commit and push".

This skill also applies for context-threshold checkpoints — proactive mid-session saves that prevent documentation loss if context runs out. See the Checkpoint vs. Full Finalization section below for the differences.

Steps

1. Review the Session Journey for completeness

   • Read the current journey file at ejs-docs/journey/YYYY/ejs-session-YYYY-MM-DD-<seq>.md
   • Identify any sections that are incomplete or missing context.

2. Finalize all sections Complete each section with coherent summaries:

   • Interaction Summary — ensure all key exchanges are documented
   • Agent Collaboration Summary — which agents participated and their contributions
   • Sub-Agent Contributions — if sub-agents were involved, ensure their decisions and handoffs are captured
   • Agent Influence — suggestions adopted vs. rejected, human overrides
   • Experiments / Evidence — what was tried and what happened
   • Iteration Log — pivots, reversals, or refinements
   • Decisions Made — all decisions with reason and impact
   • Key Learnings — technical, prompting, and tooling insights
   • If Repeating This Work — do this, avoid this, watch out for
   • Future Agent Guidance — prefer/avoid patterns for future agents

3. Populate machine extracts Fill in the ## MACHINE EXTRACTS section with structured summaries:

   • INTERACTION_EXTRACT — compact summary of the collaboration trail
   • DECISIONS_EXTRACT — list of decisions with rationale
   • LEARNING_EXTRACT — transferable insights
   • AGENT_GUIDANCE_EXTRACT — guidance for future agents
   • SUB_AGENT_EXTRACT — sub-agent contributions (if applicable)

4. Evaluate the ADR decision rubric Create an ADR only if at least one of these criteria is met:

   • Introduces or changes a system boundary (service, datastore, topology)
   • Changes a public contract (API, schema, protocol)
   • Alters security, privacy, or compliance posture
   • Requires choosing among credible alternatives with meaningful trade-offs
   • Has long-lived or hard-to-reverse consequences
   • Changes engineering process or workflow for future work

5. Update decision_detected field

   • Set to true if an ADR is warranted, false otherwise.

6. Create ADR if warranted

   • Use template: ejs-docs/adr/0000-adr-template.md
   • Save to: ejs-docs/adr/NNNN-<kebab-title>.md (next available number)
   • Link the ADR back to the session journey and vice versa via adr_links.

7. Confirm finalization

   • Inform the user: "Session finalized: ejs-session-YYYY-MM-DD-<seq>"
   • If an ADR was created, mention it: "ADR NNNN created: <title>"

Contextual References

• ADR template: ejs-docs/adr/0000-adr-template.md
• Lifecycle patterns: ejs-docs/session-lifecycle-patterns.md
• Database tool: scripts/adr-db.py

Key Principle

By session end, most of the journey should already be populated from continuous updates. Finalization is a quick review and completion step, not a full reconstruction effort.

Checkpoint vs. Full Finalization

When to Perform a Checkpoint

• 3+ unsaved interactions have accumulated since the last save (an interaction is one human prompt and the corresponding agent response)
• A significant decision has been made but not yet written to the journey
• A large, context-intensive operation is about to start
• 5+ exchanges have occurred since the last journey file save
• Substantial work completed but user has not signalled session end