Manage Memory

Maintain Claude Code's persistent memory directory so it stays accurate, concise, and useful across sessions. MEMORY.md is loaded into the system prompt on every conversation — lines after 200 are truncated, so this file must be a lean index pointing to topic files for detail.

When to Use

• MEMORY.md is approaching the 200-line truncation threshold
• A session produced durable insights worth preserving (new patterns, architecture decisions, debugging solutions)
• A topic section in MEMORY.md has grown beyond 10-15 lines and should be extracted
• Project state has changed (renamed files, new domains, updated counts) and memory entries may be stale
• Starting a new area of work and checking whether relevant memory already exists
• Periodic maintenance between sessions to keep the memory directory healthy

Inputs

• Required: Access to the memory directory (typically ~/.claude/projects/<project-path>/memory/)
• Optional: Specific trigger (e.g., "MEMORY.md is too long," "just finished a major refactor")
• Optional: Topic to add, update, or extract