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/evening - End-of-Day Reflection
Runtime ~5 minutes
Reads Morning plan, tasks.md, session activity
Writes Reflection appended to daily-plan.md
Model Claude Code

What It Does

Compares what you planned against what actually happened. Surfaces slippage patterns, captures stray ideas, and sets up tomorrow's top 3.

Why It Matters

Most productivity systems track tasks forward. Few track the gap between intention and execution backward. That gap is where the real signal lives.

If you consistently plan 7 items and complete 3, you don't have a discipline problem - you have a planning problem. /evening makes the pattern visible so you can calibrate.

How It Works

graph LR
    A[Read morning plan] --> B[Compare to<br/>completed tasks]
    B --> C[Generate reflection<br/><small>planned vs done,<br/>slippage pattern,<br/>blockers</small>]
    C --> D[Set tomorrow's<br/>top 3]

    style A fill:#161b22,stroke:#5eead4,color:#e6edf3
    style B fill:#161b22,stroke:#5eead4,color:#e6edf3
    style C fill:#161b22,stroke:#5eead4,color:#e6edf3
    style D fill:#161b22,stroke:#5eead4,color:#e6edf3

The Reflection

Output appended to daily-plan.md:

## Evening Reflection

**Planned vs Done:**
| Status | Task |
|--------|------|
| Done | #project-a Investment portfolio review |
| Slipped | #project-a Quick wins identification |
| Unplanned | #system Fix daily-plan formatting |

**Completion Rate:** 3/4 planned (75%) + 1 unplanned
**What Slipped & Why:** Pattern analysis
**Blockers Discovered:** New blockers
**Tomorrow's Top 3:** Carried over + new priorities

Capture Prompts

Before closing, /evening asks:

  • Ideas? Routes to ideas file
  • Learnings? Routes to memory
  • People notes? Updates stakeholder context

Calibration Signal

The completion rate over time is the calibration signal:

  • Consistently > 80%: plans are too conservative
  • Consistently < 50%: plans are too ambitious
  • High variance: external interrupts are the problem, not planning
  • /morning - Bookend: morning plans, evening reflects
  • /show - Related: evening uses task data for reflection
  • Self-Improvement - Evening patterns feed weekly improvement suggestions
  • Skills System - How skills compose with each other