gtapps/daily-auto-close

Daily Auto-Close

Closes long-running daemon sessions on a daily cadence so cross-session learning surfaces (reflect, weekly-review, hermit-brain, hermit-evolution) have archives to work with.

The skill is invoked by the daily-auto-close routine at 0 0 * * * (local). The routine prompt is prefixed [hermit-routine:daily-auto-close] so scripts/record-operator-action.ts does not bump state/last-operator-action.json (load-bearing: this skill reads that clock to decide whether to close now or queue).

Steps

1. Read .claude-code-hermit/state/runtime.json (session_state).

2. Read .claude-code-hermit/state/last-operator-action.json (at).

3. Check whether .claude-code-hermit/state/pending-close.json exists.

4. Branch:

   a. session_state not in {"in_progress", "idle"} — nothing to close.

   • If pending-close.json exists → delete it (stale flag from a prior session that already closed). Use the Bash tool: rm -f .claude-code-hermit/state/pending-close.json.
   • Stop. Do not notify the operator. Do not write to routine-metrics.jsonl (no-op events are not part of the log-routine-event.sh vocabulary: fired, skipped-waiting, started).

   b. session_state in {"in_progress", "idle"} AND now - last_operator_action > 10min — safe lull; close directly.

   • Invoke /claude-code-hermit:session-close --auto. The auto-close path archives the session and clears pending-close.json itself on archive success.
   • Stop.

   c. session_state in {"in_progress", "idle"} AND now - last_operator_action ≤ 10min — operator is currently active; queue.

   • Write .claude-code-hermit/state/pending-close.json with {"queued_at":"<now ISO>","queued_by":"daily-auto-close"} (singleton; overwrite unconditionally). Use the Write tool.
   • Stop. The heartbeat-precheck drain block will emit AUTO_CLOSE on the next tick where the operator has been idle >10 minutes.

5. If last-operator-action.json is absent, unreadable, or has no valid at timestamp: treat as "operator has been idle indefinitely" → take branch (b) (close directly). Fail-open: it's better to close an arguably-still-active session than to leak the routine into perpetual noop.

Notes

• The skill is intentionally silent. No operator notification on queue or drain — the existing Auto-closed S-NNN notification from /session-close --auto is the only operator-facing signal.
• The 10-minute lull threshold is hardcoded. If operators report mid-conversation closes, raise it; the threshold is a single constant in this skill and in scripts/heartbeat-precheck.ts.
• When heartbeat is disabled and the operator stays active past midnight, this routine itself acts as the slow-path drain on the next day's tick: it re-evaluates and closes directly if branch (b)'s conditions are met.