Run the Mine → Grow → Defrag cycle to keep the knowledge flywheel healthy.
The flywheel captures learnings reactively (via /retro, /post-mortem). Athena closes the loop by actively mining for unextracted signal, validating existing learnings against current code, synthesizing cross-domain insights, and cleaning up stale or duplicate artifacts.
When to use: Before an evolve cycle, after a burst of development, or weekly. Athena is non-destructive — it proposes changes without modifying existing learnings.
Active knowledge intelligence. Runs Mine → Grow → Defrag cycle. Mine extracts signal from git/.agents/code. Grow validates existing learnings against current reality, synthesizes cross-domain insights, traces provenance chains, and identifies knowledge gaps. Defrag cleans up. Triggers: "athena", "knowledge cycle", "mine and grow", "knowledge defrag", "clean flywheel", "grow knowledge". Source: boshu2/agentops.