Technical Skill Finder
Purpose
Find recurring pain points from local agent logs and convert them into actionable skill candidates, reuse opportunities, or existing skill updates.
When to use
- You want to discover missing technical skills from historical agent activity.
- You want reproducible criteria before creating a new skill.
- You want to validate whether an existing skill already covers the pattern.
- You want to include optional personal-signal sources (when authorized).
Inputs
SCOPE(required): repository paths, workspace, or tool domains to inspect.SOURCES(required): ordered source list to mine.TIMEFRAME(optional): defaultallunless constrained by user.PRIVACY_POLICY(required): explicit user direction for personal logs.TOP_N(optional): number of highest-priority candidates to return.
Workflow
- Initialize source set
- ~/.codex/history.jsonl - ~/.codex/archived_sessions/*.jsonl - ~/.codex/sessions/*.jsonl and ~/.codex/log/* if present - Repository-specific telemetry in AGENTS.md/local docs when available - Cursor / Codex agent logs detected under known dotfiles directories
- Normalize extraction signals
- Parse stack traces and classify failure type (auth, type-check, llm-error, git/ci, runtime, refactor-merge, test) - Parse recurring command phrases (rg, mypy, pytest, gh, git, package-manager failures) - Record frequency, recency, and affected project context
- Cluster signals
- Group by: domain (python/js/rust/docs/tooling), command lineage, and error signature. - Deprioritize one-off sessions with low recurrence.
- Map to existing skills
- Compare candidate clusters with available skills by name and description. - If overlap is high, propose skill update path. - If no overlap, propose new skill.
- Emit ranking output
- Provide impact, frequency, confidence, skill-fit, and first-apply command set.
- Produce minimal first-iteration artifacts for high-priority candidates
- Candidate title + scope - Trigger phrase examples - Required inputs - Suggested workflow summary - Evidence snippets (line/file-level) - Suggested dependencies/tools (e.g., jq, rg, shell utilities, MCP resources)
- Optional extension to personal-signal sources
- Only after explicit approval to read personal channels. - If MCP is available and user has granted access, run MCP resource discovery and include message-signal-derived patterns. - Keep this opt-in and isolated from coding-signal output unless user requests a merged plan.
Guardrails
- Never infer or emit private content from message logs unless explicitly permitted.
- Skip binary/corrupt files and summarize only parseable text sources.
- Prefer deterministic commands and small scripts over ad-hoc manual parsing.
- Always avoid proposing skills with unresolved operational context (credentials, environment, private URLs).
- If evidence is ambiguous, return
confidence: lowand request one more session sample.
Outputs
skill_candidates.md-style report in chat:
- reuse candidates (existing skill can be extended) - new skill candidates (not yet covered) - top source anchors with references - recommended next action (create/update)
Read references/sources.md for source precedence. Read references/scorecard.md for prioritization rules.