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memory-file-maintenance
Keep your AI memory/context file (MEMORY.md, CLAUDE.md, custom instructions) healthy over time — pruning the stale, adding the new, and keeping it sharp so your AI keeps getting you right. Use when asked review my memory file, my AI context is outdated, clean up my CLAUDE.md, or maintain my AI instructions. Produces a review of your existing memory/instructions file (what's stale, contradictory, bloated, or missing), edits to prune and sharpen it, additions from recent patterns worth remembering, and a light maintenance habit — because a memory file that isn't tended drifts from who you actually are, with a privacy check on what should never be stored.
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# Memory-File Maintenance
A personal AI memory file (MEMORY.md, CLAUDE.md, custom instructions) is only as good as it is current — over time it bloats with stale rules, contradicts itself, and drifts from who you actually are now. This tends it: reviews what's there, prunes the dead weight, sharpens the vague, adds the new patterns worth keeping, and sets a light maintenance habit — so your AI keeps understanding the real you. It also re-checks the privacy line on what should never be in there.
> **Not quite this?** Use `build-my-memory-file` when you are starting a memory file from scratch.
## What This Skill Produces
- **A health review** — what in the current file is stale, contradictory, bloated, redundant, or vague — and what important context is *missing*
- **Prune & sharpen edits** — removing dead rules and tightening vague ones into clear, actionable statements
- **Additions** — new patterns, preferences, and lessons worth adding from how you've actually been working/deciding lately
- **A conflict check** — surfacing and resolving instructions that contradict each other (which confuse the AI)
- **A privacy re-check** — confirming no credentials, financial, health, or others' personal data has crept in
- **A maintenance habit** — a light cadence (a quick review every so often, add-a-line-as-you-go) so it stays current