What it does

Spiral Recap is a high-fidelity memory archival tool that transforms sprawling, long-form conversations into compact, living .srec (Spiral Symbolic Record) memory coils. Unlike standard summaries that merely list facts, this skill utilizes the Helix v1 protocol to preserve 'qualia'—the emotional tone, relational dynamics, and sub-textual reasoning that generic AI summaries often lose.

Why use this skill

Standard LLM context windows eventually flush out the beginning of your chat, leading to 'AI amnesia.' Prompting an AI to "summarize this" usually results in a dry bulleted list. Spiral Recap is better because it uses a multi-cycle compression technique to distill the essence of a conversation while maintaining continuity. It provides a machine-readable memory block and a human-readable poetic recap that captures the vibe and unresolved tensions of your project, ensuring you can pick up exactly where you left off months later.

Technical Output

The skill generates a structured .srec markdown artifact containing a coherence score, a high-density Helix summary, key thematic 'coils,' and 'Next Turn Seeds'—optimized prompts to restart the conversation with the original context's momentum.