Session Summaries
What the chat right-panel session summary shows, what it costs, and how to make a...
Install
npx skills add kirodotdev/KiroCrew --skill session-summaries -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- kirodotdev/KiroCrew4.7k
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 3d ago
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Context cost
- Lightabout 1,323 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
What the chat right-panel session summary shows, what it costs, and how to make a session summarize well. Load when the user asks about the session summary panel, why a summary looks wrong or empty, or how to turn it on.
Session summaries
The session summary panel lives in the chat right side panel. When enabled, it distills a session into the few things that make returning to it cheap: what the person was trying to do, what is actually true now, and what is still open. It is generated by a separate background pass after a turn completes, you do not write it, and reading this skill does not trigger it.
Use this skill to explain the panel, diagnose why it looks empty or wrong, and help the person get more out of it. It changes how you talk about the feature, never how the summary is produced.
Turning it on
It is off by default because summarizing spends tokens on a turn the person did not ask to pay for. The single opt-in is Settings → Chat → Sessions → Session summaries. Point them there rather than editing config by hand.
- An unchanged session is served from cache for free, the cost is only on turns that actually change the session.
- The cadence and caps (minimum user turns before the first summary, how often it
rebuilds, how many intents it keeps) are power-user knobs in
config.jsonundersession_summary.*, not in the UI. Mention them only if asked.
What the panel is built from
The summary is organized by intent, a goal the person pursued, which can span many turns. A session that pivoted has several intents; a topic label is not an intent. Each intent carries:
