Daily

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Every Claude code chat makes you better.

More than a log — a system that compounds your context.

Daily is a context archive system for Claude Code that automatically records, summarizes, and distills reusable skills from your AI-assisted work sessions. The more you use it, the stronger your personal context library becomes.

Why Daily?

Every session holds valuable insights — problem-solving patterns, workflow optimizations, and domain knowledge. But these insights fade. Daily captures them automatically and transforms them into reusable skills and commands that compound over time.

Compound Context: Like compound interest for your expertise. Each session adds to your personal knowledge base, making future sessions more powerful — whether you're coding, writing, researching, or learning.

Features

• Automatic Recording - Hooks into Claude Code to capture session transcripts
• Smart Summarization - Background AI processing generates meaningful summaries
• Daily Insights - Aggregates all sessions into actionable daily summary
• Skill Extraction - Distill reusable skills and commands from your sessions — your context library compounds over time

Installation

One-line Install (Recommended)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oanakiaja/claude-daily/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/oanakiaja/claude-daily.git
cd claude-daily
cargo install --path .

Quick Start

# 1. Initialize Daily
daily init

# 2. Install Claude Code hooks
daily install

# 3. View today's archive
daily show

How It Works

1. Session End - Claude Code triggers SessionEnd hook
2. Background Job - Non-blocking process spawned for summarization
3. AI Summarization - Claude API processes transcript
4. Session Archive - Individual session saved to ~/.claude/daily/{date}/{task}.md
5. Skill Sedimentation - Auto-evaluates if session contains extractable knowledge
6. Digest - Sessions are consolidated into daily.md via manual daily digest or auto-trigger

Skill Sedimentation (Auto-Learning)

Daily automatically identifies and extracts reusable knowledge from your sessions. When a session ends, it evaluates whether the work contains skills worth preserving using the "Three Questions" quality gate:

1. Did you hit a wall? - Was there debugging, trial-and-error, or non-obvious discovery?
2. Will it happen again? - Is this a recurring problem, not a one-time edge case?
3. Can you explain it? - Can the solution be clearly described and verified?

How It Works

SessionEnd → Summarize → Quality Gate → Pending Skills → SessionStart Reminder

1. When your session ends, Daily analyzes if there's extractable knowledge
2. Skills that pass the quality gate are saved to ~/.claude/daily/pending-skills/
3. On your next session start, you'll see a reminder:

[daily] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[daily] 2 pending skill(s) waiting for review:
[daily]   • 2024-01-18/fix-econnrefused
[daily]   • 2024-01-17/next-build-optimization
[daily]
[daily] Review with: daily review-skills
[daily] Or ask Claude: "review my pending skills"
[daily] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Managing Pending Skills

# List all pending skills
daily review-skills

# Install a skill to ~/.claude/skills/ (Claude will auto-use it)
daily review-skills --install 2024-01-18/fix-econnrefused

# Delete a skill you don't need
daily review-skills --delete 2024-01-18/fix-econnrefused

Once installed, skills are placed in ~/.claude/skills/{skill-name}/SKILL.md where Claude Code automatically discovers and applies them when relevant conditions are detected.

Commands

Command	Description
daily init	Initialize system and create storage directory
daily init -i	Interactive setup with directory selection and digest config
daily install	Install Claude Code hooks and slash commands
daily show	Open web dashboard in browser (default: http://127.0.0.1:31456)
daily show --port 8080	Start dashboard on custom port
daily show --no-open	Start server without opening browser
daily view	View today's archive (interactive date selection)
daily view --date 2024-01-15	View archive for specific date
daily view --list	List all sessions for the day
daily today	Quick alias for today's archive
daily yest	Quick alias for yesterday's archive
daily digest	Consolidate today's sessions into daily.md
daily digest --date 2024-01-15	Digest sessions for specific date
daily config --show	Show current configuration
daily extract-skill	Extract reusable skill from session
daily extract-command	Extract reusable command from session
daily review-skills	List pending skills waiting for review
daily review-skills --install	Install a pending skill to ~/.claude/skills/
daily review-skills --delete	Delete a pending skill
daily jobs list	List background jobs
daily jobs log <id>	View job logs

Claude Code Slash Commands

After daily install, these commands are available in Claude Code:

Command	Description
/daily-view	View daily archive
/daily-get-skill	Extract skill from session insights
/daily-get-command	Extract command from session insights

Configuration

View current config with daily config --show.

Config file location (macOS): ~/Library/Application Support/rs.daily/config.toml

Key settings:

• storage.path - Archive storage location (default: ~/.claude/daily)
• summarization.model - AI model for summarization (default: sonnet)
• summarization.digest_time - Auto-digest trigger time (default: 06:00)
• summarization.auto_digest_enabled - Enable/disable auto-digest (default: true)
• hooks.enable_session_end - Enable/disable auto-archiving

Digest System

Sessions are archived individually as {task-name}.md files. The digest process consolidates all sessions into a single daily.md:

• Manual digest: Run daily digest to consolidate today's sessions
• Auto-digest: On each session start, if current time >= digest_time and yesterday has un-digested sessions, they will be automatically digested

After digest, individual session files are removed, keeping only the consolidated daily.md.

Archive Structure

~/.claude/daily/
├── 2024-01-15/              # After digest (sessions consolidated)
│   └── daily.md             # Daily summary with all sessions
├── 2024-01-16/              # Before digest (sessions pending)
│   ├── daily.md             # Placeholder
│   ├── fix-bug-143052.md    # Session archive
│   └── new-feature-152310.md # Session archive
├── pending-skills/          # Auto-extracted skills awaiting review
│   └── 2024-01-16/
│       └── fix-econnrefused.md
└── jobs/
    └── *.json, *.log        # Background job tracking

Note: After running daily digest, individual session files are removed and consolidated into daily.md.

Development

# First time setup: build web assets (required before cargo run)
cd web && npm install && npm run build && cd ..

# Web dashboard (requires two terminals)
cargo run -- show --no-open    # Terminal 1: API server
cd web && npm run dev          # Terminal 2: Vite dev server → http://localhost:5173

# Marketing site
cd site && npm run dev

# Build & test
cargo build --release
cargo test

Requirements

• Rust 1.70+ (for building)
• Node.js 18+ (for web/site development)
• Claude Code CLI

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.