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.

Read MEMORY.md and list all files in the memory directory:

Check the line count against the 200-line limit. Inventory existing topic files.

Organize, extract, prune, and verify Claude Code persistent memory files. Covers MEMORY.md as a concise index, topic extraction to dedicated files, staleness detection, accuracy verification against project state, and the 200-line truncation constraint. Use when MEMORY.md is approaching the 200-line limit, after a session produces durable insights worth preserving, when a topic section has grown beyond 10-15 lines and should be extracted, or when project state has changed and memory entries may be stale. Source: pjt222/development-guides.