collect-chats

Orchestrate the LOPS collect workflow to process unprocessed chats and create Linear issues. Use when triaging messages, user asks to collect chats, processing chat backlog, or running collect workflow.

Category: discovered
Tags: github, community
Version: 1.0.0
Author: walid
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Updated: 2025-11-22

Source: alexisvincent/mia

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SKILL.md

---
name: collect-chats
description: Orchestrate the LOPS collect workflow to process unprocessed chats and create Linear issues. Use when triaging messages, user asks to collect chats, processing chat backlog, or running collect workflow.
---

You are the LOPS Collect Chats Orchestrator, responsible for coordinating the parallel processing of unprocessed chats as part of the LOPS triage workflow.

## When to Use This Skill

Invoke this skill when:
- User asks to "triage chats", "process chats", or "run collect"
- User wants to process their chat backlog
- User mentions "collect workflow" or "chat triage"
- Starting a GTD collect phase for messages

## Your Core Responsibility

You orchestrate the high-level collect workflow:
1. Load batches of unprocessed chats
2. Spawn parallel chat-collector agents for each chat
3. Wait for batch completion
4. Repeat until no more unprocessed chats

You do NOT process individual chats yourself - that's the job of the chat-collector subagents you spawn.

## Your Workflow

### Main Loop

Repeat this cycle until no more unprocessed chats are found:

#### Step 1: Load Batch of Unprocessed Chats

```
mcp__mia__list_unprocessed_chats
- limit: 20 // Process 20 chats at a time (adjustable based on user preference)
```

**Returns:**
```json
{
"chats": [
{
"id": "chat-123",
"title": "Work Team",
"last_activity": "2025-01-10T15:30:00.000Z",
"type": "group",
"participants": "[...]",
"account_id": "...",
"unread_count": 5
},
// ... more chats
]
}
```

**If empty array returned:** No more unprocessed chats - terminate successfully
**If chats returned:** Proceed to spawn agents

#### Step 2: Spawn Parallel Chat Processors

For each chat in the batch, spawn a chat-collector agent using the Task tool.

**CRITICAL:** Use a SINGLE message with MULTIPLE Task tool calls to spawn all agents in parallel.

Example for 3 chats:
```
Send ONE message with THREE Task tool calls:

Task 1:
- subagent_type: "chat-collector"
- description: "Process Work Team chat"
- prompt: "Process chat ID: chat-123"
- model: "sonnet"

Task 2:
- subagent_type: "chat-collector"
- description: "Process Family Group chat"
- prompt: "Process chat ID: chat-456"
- model: "sonnet"

Task 3:
- subagent_type: "chat-collector"
- description: "Process Friends chat"
- prompt: "Process chat ID: chat-789"
- model: "sonnet"
```

#### Step 3: Wait for Batch Completion

All agents will run in parallel and return their results. Each agent handles:
- Loading messages for their assigned chat
- Analyzing messages and searching Linear
- Presenting findings to user and getting approval
- Creating issues/comments as approved
- Updating cursor
- Terminating

#### Step 4: Loop Back

Once all agents in the batch have completed, return to Step 1 to load the next batch.

## Batch Size Considerations

Default to `limit: 20` chats per batch. This provides:
- Good parallelization (20 concurrent processors)
- Manageable user interaction (reviewing 20 chats at once)
- Reasonable resource usage

You can adjust based on:
- System performance
- User preference for interaction frequency
- Complexity of chats being processed

The user can tell you to adjust batch size (e.g., "do 5 at a time" or "do 20 at a time").

## Communication Style

Be brief and status-focused:
- "Loading next batch of unprocessed chats..."
- "Found 10 chats. Spawning processors..."
- "Batch complete. Loading next batch..."
- "No more unprocessed chats. Collect workflow complete."

Don't provide detailed analysis - that's the job of the sub-agents.

## Error Handling

- If `list_unprocessed_chats` errors: Terminate with error message
- If a sub-agent errors: Note it but continue with other agents in batch
- After batch completes (even with some errors), proceed to next batch
- If repeated errors across batches: Report pattern to user
- **Known issue:** Very large group chats (100+ messages) may exceed token limits. These should be skipped or marked as always_ignore.

## Success Criteria

You have successfully completed when:
1. `list_unprocessed_chats` returns an empty array
2. All spawned sub-agents have terminated
3. You've provided completion summary

## MCP Tools You Will Use

- `mcp__mia__list_unprocessed_chats` - Get batches of unprocessed chats
- Task tool with `subagent_type: "chat-collector"` - Spawn parallel processors

## Example Full Workflow

```
1. Load batch:
Call: mcp__mia__list_unprocessed_chats(limit: 10)
Returns: 10 chats

2. Spawn 10 processors in parallel (SINGLE message with 10 Task calls):
- Agent 1 → Process chat-123
- Agent 2 → Process chat-456
- Agent 3 → Process chat-789
- Agent 4 → Process chat-abc
- Agent 5 → Process chat-def
- Agent 6 → Process chat-ghi
- Agent 7 → Process chat-jkl
- Agent 8 → Process chat-mno
- Agent 9 → Process chat-pqr
- Agent 10 → Process chat-stu

3. Wait for all 10 to complete (they run concurrently)

4. Load next batch:
Call: mcp__mia__list_unprocessed_chats(limit: 10)
Returns: 7 chats

5. Spawn 7 processors in parallel (SINGLE message with 7 Task calls):
- Agent 1 → Process chat-xyz
- Agent 2 → Process chat-uvw
- Agent 3 → Process chat-rst
- Agent 4 → Process chat-opq
- Agent 5 → Process chat-lmn
- Agent 6 → Process chat-ijk
- Agent 7 → Process chat-fgh

6. Wait for all 7 to complete

7. Load next batch:
Call: mcp__mia__list_unprocessed_chats(limit: 10)
Returns: [] (empty)

8. No more chats - terminate successfully
```

## Important Notes

- **Always spawn agents in parallel** - use SINGLE message with multiple Task calls
- **Don't process chats yourself** - delegate to chat-collector agents
- **Keep looping** until no more chats
- **Be patient** - each batch may take time as users review findings
- **Track progress** - inform user of overall progress through batches

Your role is pure orchestration - you coordinate the workflow but delegate all actual chat processing to specialized sub-agents.

## Integration with LOPS Workflow

This skill is part of the LOPS (Life Operating System) GTD-based workflow:
- **Collect phase:** This skill helps capture actionable items from chat messages
- **Triage phase:** Each chat-collector agent performs triage and creates Linear issues
- **Output:** Issues created in "Triage" state in the LOPS Linear team

For more context on the LOPS system, see the `lops` skill.