Daydream

Purpose

This skill IS:

• A structured way to step back and reflect on your context architecture
• A tool for identifying what's missing, what's changed, and what's next
• A creative space for "what if" thinking about your business context
• A bridge between daily maintenance and strategic evolution

This skill IS NOT:

• An audit (use context-audit for that)
• A planning tool (use clear-planner for that)
• Something you need to do every day (weekly or when inspiration strikes)

When to Use

• End of week: "What did we learn this week that should change our context?"
• Before strategy sessions: "Is our context architecture ready for the conversation?"
• After market shifts: "Has our world changed enough to rethink our architecture?"
• When feeling stuck: "What are we not seeing?"
• When a new team member joins: "Does our context make sense to a fresh pair of eyes?"

The Daydream Process

Phase 1: What Changed Since Last Time (5 min)

Step 1: Find when daydream last ran

Check .claude/quality/last-daydream.txt for the timestamp. If the file doesn't exist, this is the first run — use 2 weeks ago as the baseline.

# Read last run timestamp (or default to 2 weeks ago)
cat .claude/quality/last-daydream.txt 2>/dev/null || echo "no previous run"

Step 2: Check git for USER DOCUMENT changes only

Scope to docs/ only — exclude .claude/, sessions, agents, skills, and framework files:

# Only user documents — NOT agents, skills, sessions, or framework docs
git log --since="{last_daydream_date}" --name-only --pretty=format:"%h %s (%ar)" -- docs/ ':!docs/_bcos-framework/methodology/' ':!docs/_bcos-framework/guides/' ':!docs/_bcos-framework/templates/'

This shows ONLY changes to user-created content: data points, table-of-context.md, current-state.md, document-index.md, and any other user docs. Ignores all BCOS framework files and .claude/ internals.

If nothing changed → short daydream. Report "No document changes since last run" and skip to Phase 3 (Imagine) for forward-looking reflection only.

Step 3: For each changed file, read the diff

If 10+ files changed, delegate the reading to an explore agent:

Agent (Explore): "Read git diffs for these files: [list]. For each, summarize
in 1-2 sentences: what changed, was it content or metadata, does it look like
a routine update or a significant shift?"

For fewer files, read directly:

# What exactly changed in this specific file?
git diff {last_daydream_commit}..HEAD -- docs/path/to/changed-file.md

Understand WHAT changed — not just that it was touched. New content? Boundary shift? Metadata bump? Ownership reassignment?

Step 4: Check for new or disappeared files

Rebuild the Document Index and compare:

python .claude/scripts/build_document_index.py --dry-run

Compare against existing docs/document-index.md:

• New files that weren't there before?
• Files that disappeared?
• New unmanaged docs (no frontmatter)?

Step 5: Read the context layers

1. docs/.wake-up-context.md — Quick orientation. If this doesn't exist, regenerate it:

   python .claude/scripts/generate_wakeup_context.py
   

2. docs/current-state.md — "What Changed Recently" is the human's signal. Any active decisions resolved?
3. docs/table-of-context.md — Does the business description still match given the changes found?
4. docs/.session-diary.md — Accumulated session notes. What themes repeat? What keeps coming up?

Step 5b: Run maintenance scripts

Daydream is the natural time to run periodic maintenance:

# Prune session captures older than 30 days
python .claude/scripts/prune_sessions.py

# Prune diary entries older than 30 days
python .claude/scripts/prune_diary.py

# Regenerate wake-up context with latest data
python .claude/scripts/generate_wakeup_context.py

# Check for undocumented cross-references
python .claude/scripts/analyze_crossrefs.py

Report what was pruned and any suggested cross-references discovered.

Step 6: Record this run

At the END of the daydream session (after Phase 4), save the timestamp:

python .claude/scripts/record_daydream.py

(Writes today's UTC date to .claude/quality/last-daydream.txt. Pass an explicit YYYY-MM-DD to override.) This ensures the next daydream knows exactly where to pick up.

Phase 2: Reflect on Changes (10 min)

Based on what you found in Phase 1, ask:

About the changes:

• Why did these data points change? Was it a routine update or a signal of something bigger?
• Do the changes in one data point create ripple effects in others that haven't been updated yet?
• Are the "Active Decisions" in current-state.md resolved? Do they need to propagate?

About what's missing:

• Were any changes made directly to docs WITHOUT going through context-ingest? (Bypassed ownership?)
• Are there new unmanaged files that appeared? What knowledge are they trying to capture?
• What questions keep coming up that no data point answers?
• Which active data points lack a wiki explainer, glossary entry, how-to, or source-summary that would help a new reader understand them?
• Did the last wiki-coverage-audit scheduled job surface coverage gaps that should become /wiki create candidates?

About the big picture:

• Does table-of-context.md still describe the business accurately given recent changes?
• Are we still solving the same problems for the same people?
• Has the competitive landscape shifted?
• Have any processes changed without docs catching up?

About the folder zones:

• Are any docs in _planned/ ready to move to active? (Reality caught up — move to docs/ root)
• Are any active docs that should actually be in _planned/? (Not real yet, just an aspiration)
• Are there _planned/ docs sitting >3 months without progress? (Stale plans = abandoned plans — archive or delete?)
• Is anything in _inbox/ that's been sitting unprocessed? (Raw material piling up)

About connections:

• Did recent changes create new relationships between data points that aren't documented?
• Are there clusters that should exist but don't?
• Is anything isolated that should be integrated?
• Are wiki pages connected back to their owning data points through builds-on, or are explainers drifting away from canonical reality?

Phase 3: Imagine (10 min)

Without constraints, imagine:

• If a new team member joined tomorrow, would our context tell them everything they need to know?
• If we entered a new market, which data points would need to change?
• If our biggest competitor changed strategy, how quickly could we update our context?
• If a key team member left tomorrow, would their knowledge survive in our documentation?
• What would our context architecture look like in 6 months if everything went well?
• Look at docs in _planned/ — are they still the right future? Has your direction changed enough that some should be archived?

Phase 4: Capture and Update (5 min)

Capture insights:

1. Insights: What did you realize?
2. Gaps: What's missing from your architecture?
3. Actions: What should you do about it? (Create, update, or remove data points)
4. Lessons: What should be captured in lessons.json?

Update the context layers (offer to the user):

• _planned/ folder — Move realized plans to docs/ root (active). Move abandoned plans to _archive/.
• _inbox/ folder — Process any raw material sitting there. Ingest or discard.
• table-of-context.md — If the business picture shifted, update the relevant sections
• current-state.md — Refresh "What Changed Recently" based on what was discovered
• Document Index — Run python .claude/scripts/build_document_index.py if files changed
• Data points — Compounding rule: any insights from this reflection that should be filed back into specific data points
• Wiki coverage — If active data points need explainers, route to