/edikt:capture

Mid-session sweep — surfaces uncaptured ADRs, invariants, and documentation gaps in the current conversation before they're lost to compaction. Read-only: it surfaces candidates, it doesn't create anything.

Usage

/edikt:capture

What it does

Scans the conversation for three signal types:

Signal	Surfaced as	Routes to
Explicit technical choice with rejected alternatives	ADR candidate	/edikt:adr:new
Hard constraint where violation causes real harm	Invariant candidate	/edikt:invariant:new
Design rationale or decisions missing from project docs	Documentation gap	/edikt:docs:review

Every candidate runs through the GL-001 capture gates before being surfaced — burden of proof is on capture, not silence, and a candidate with no real rejected alternative isn't proposed at all. Then it reports what it found:

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 CAPTURE SWEEP
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ADR Candidates (1 found)

  1. Use Redis for session storage
     Decision: Redis over in-memory sessions
     Alternatives considered: in-memory store (doesn't survive restarts)
     Rationale: sessions must persist across deploys
     → Run /edikt:adr:new to capture this

Invariant Candidates (1 found)

  1. Sessions must expire within 24h
     Consequence of violation: stale sessions accumulate, memory grows unbounded
     → Run /edikt:invariant:new to capture this

Documentation Gaps (0 found)

  None found — no uncaptured decisions in this category.

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✅ Capture sweep complete

Next: Run /edikt:adr:new or /edikt:invariant:new for any items above.

Nothing gets created automatically — every finding is a prompt to run the command it points at, not an automated write.

When to use

Run at the end of a conversation where multiple governance-worthy things happened. Instead of remembering to run four different commands, run one.

The Stop hook proactively suggests specific capture commands during conversations. /edikt:capture is the catch-all when you want to sweep the whole conversation at once.

Natural language triggers

• "capture everything from this conversation"
• "let's save what we decided"
• "wrap up this conversation"

What's next

• /edikt:session — end-of-session sweep across recent work
• /edikt:adr:new — capture a specific architecture decision
• /edikt:invariant:new — capture a specific hard constraint