[Jammy2211]

Summary

After time away the suggestion tiers have lapsed, the queue has grown, and the nightly digest skipped 09-17→22 and 09-24→28. This adds one door for catching up.

• scripts/catch_up.py (pure + CLI, stdlib): --scope lensing|interests|all [--topic T] [--since D] [--json] [--offline].
  • Cutoff = newest DONE <date> in the scope's queue sections, or the newest commit that adds an @type{key, bib entry and touches wiki/<domain>/sources/ (merges diffed vs first parent; shallow clones ignored). The 2026-09-17 seed split, which touched sources but added no entry, does not count.
  • Harvests: swept inbox/interests lines from git log -p, open reading-queue lines (via board._parse_paper), and an arXiv gap-fill that re-runs the Mind digest's QUERY (imported from PyAutoMind/.github/scripts, resolved via Brain _repo_paths.py) over submittedDate:[cutoff−3d, today]. Id-only lookups fill in missing abstracts. Interests is capped at 300 results, ranked by the digest's scorer, and reported as truncated.
  • Dedup by arXiv id, falling back to normalised title, against the bib and DONE lines. A network or Mind failure shows up as a warning and never crashes the run.
• skills/catch_up/: the first organ-owned Memory skill. Harvest → curate into intake / cite / queue / skip → one human gate → Opus subagents file with the _read_prompt recipe → make validate → wiki/<domain>/log.md → one PR. skills is added to ALLOWED_TOP_DIRS.
• Dashboard: once CATCH_UP_DAYS = 7 pass without an ingest, a banner appears above the hero and at the top of the markdown: "…so… I've been lost for a while", "N days since papers were last ingested into memory", and a 📋 /catch_up lensing button. state.json gains days_since_ingest. knowledge_board.yml now checks out with fetch-depth: 0 so the banner can date the ingest.

Live run (lensing, 2026-09-30)

The cutoff is 2026-09-11: the last DONE and the last bib+sources ingest (7e716dd) agree. That makes 19 days lost and 87 candidates: queue 50, history 8, arXiv gap-fill 29. None of them are already in memory.

Test plan

• make test: 243 passed (new tests/test_catch_up.py covers a fixture git repo for the cutoff, dedup, history parsing, and arXiv stubbed; banner tests are in test_board.py)
• make validate green
• python scripts/board.py --md / --html show the 19-day banner above the hero

Follow-ups, outside this repo: the ~/.claude/commands/catch_up.md symlink and a Brain COMMANDS.md line. Mind's spawn.py MEMORY_RULES has no rule for skills/*, so a spawn dry-run will report it UNMATCHED until a partition rule is added.

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