Refine Skill

SkillDev tools

Lets your agent review a work session and propose doc updates capturing lessons learned.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Refine Skill skill

About this capability

End-of-session reflection. Reviews friction encountered during the session and proposes updates to docs/ to capture lessons learned.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by windmill-labs/windmill in .agents/skills/refine/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Reflect on the current session and update documentation with lessons learned.

Instructions

  1. Identify friction: Review what happened in this session:

    • Run git diff main...HEAD --stat to see what files were touched
    • Think about: what was slow, what failed, what required multiple attempts, what information was missing or hard to find
  2. Read current docs: Read the docs that were relevant to this session:

    • docs/validation.md
    • docs/enterprise.md
    • Any skills that were invoked
  3. Propose updates: For each piece of friction, decide if it warrants a doc update:

    • Missing knowledge: Information you had to discover that should be documented
    • Wrong guidance: Instructions that led you astray
    • Missing validation rule: A check that should be in the validation matrix
    • New pattern: A codebase pattern worth capturing for next time
  4. Apply updates: Edit the relevant docs/ files. Keep changes minimal and specific — add only what would have saved time this session.

  5. Report: Summarize what was added/changed and why.

Rules

  • Only add knowledge confirmed by this session — no speculative additions
  • Keep docs concise — add a line or two, not a paragraph
  • If a whole new doc is needed, create it in docs/ and add a pointer in CLAUDE.md
  • Don't update skills unless a coding pattern was genuinely wrong
  • Don't add things Claude already knows — only Windmill-specific knowledge

Signals

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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
refine-windmill-labs
Source
github.com/windmill-labs/windmill