Recipes

Small additions for the Claude set-up.

Answer from more places

The skill searches the folders you name after it:

/smalt-live-assistant ~/Notes ~/work/acme ~/Documents/Smalt

Earlier folders count more. To make it the default, list them in ~/.claude/skills/smalt-live-assistant/knowledge.txt, one per line.

Ask about the meeting so far

In a second Claude Code chat, while the meeting runs:

What have we decided so far in the Smalt meeting?

Claude reads the transcript through the same connection.

Search big folders fast

For hundreds of books or PDFs, give the skill its own index. It reads each document once, then searches in milliseconds.

cd ~/.claude/skills/smalt-live-assistant
curl -fsSLO https://getsmalt.com/docs/files/agent-index.py
python3 agent-index.py --index ~/Notes ~/Documents/Smalt
python3 agent-index.py --search 'tom sawyer age'

On 1,276 documents: 14 s the first time, 0.01 s when nothing changed, about 0.1 s per search. Then tell the skill to use it, in SKILL.md:

Before the first wait, run python3 ~/.claude/skills/smalt-live-assistant/agent-index.py --index ~/Notes.
To search, run python3 ~/.claude/skills/smalt-live-assistant/agent-index.py --search '<plain words>'.

Watch what the skill decides

In a second terminal:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/smalt-live-assistant/jev-question.py --follow

Keep it cheap

The skill runs on Haiku and asks Jev about each line, so Claude only wakes up for real questions: cents per meeting.