# claude-migrate-memory-to-doc

Pulls your profile and preferences out of Claude's personal memory into documents that Claude, Cursor and other CLIs can read.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 325 installs · ★ 1493
- Author: daymade
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills/tree/HEAD/daymade-claude-code/claude-migrate-memory-to-doc/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/claude-migrate-memory-to-doc

## What it does

Claude keeps personal memory in `~/.claude/projects/<project-slug>/memory/`, and that memory is locked to one tool: it never lands in the repo, and no other CLI can see it. The skill sorts every memory file by scope and moves the cross-tool user content into `~/.claude/references/user/`. What stays behind is a thin handoff cache for session state.

The skill is blunt about the part that usually breaks: a reference file reached only by a plain-text pointer is read on demand and is not guaranteed to load. Claude does not parse paths written inside CLAUDE.md at all — it injects only the doc files themselves along the `~/.codex` → git-root → cwd chain. So the hard facts about the user get inlined into the `CLAUDE.md` body, and the detail stays in `references/`. A symlink from `~/.codex/AGENTS.md` to `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` makes Claude inject the same file.

The wiring — the symlink, the `~/.codex/config.toml` edit and the verification run — was built and checked against Claude only. Cursor reads `.cursor/rules` or a project-root `AGENTS.md`, so you wire that yourself. One more thing worth checking: Claude truncates docs at 32 KiB by default, which silently drops the back half of a long `CLAUDE.md` unless you raise `project_doc_max_bytes`. The skill runs inline, spawns parallel review subagents and calls `codex` through Bash.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill claude-migrate-memory-to-doc -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/claude-migrate-memory-to-doc/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/claude-migrate-memory-to-doc/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill claude-migrate-memory-to-doc -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/claude-migrate-memory-to-doc/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill claude-migrate-memory-to-doc -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/claude-migrate-memory-to-doc/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install daymade/claude-code-skills claude-migrate-memory-to-doc
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/claude-migrate-memory-to-doc/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill claude-migrate-memory-to-doc -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills --path daymade-claude-code/claude-migrate-memory-to-doc
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/claude-migrate-memory-to-doc/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill claude-migrate-memory-to-doc -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills/tree/HEAD/daymade-claude-code/claude-migrate-memory-to-doc/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- move the user profile out of Claude memory into docs other CLIs read
- break tool lock-in on personal memory
- slim down a memory directory that has grown bloated
- point Claude at the same instruction file Claude reads
- retire a project's auto memory and give its contents a document home

## Example prompts
- migrate my memory into shared docs
- my memory is locked to Claude — make Claude read my profile
- turn off auto memory in this project and move everything into documents

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: claude-migrate-memory-to-doc
disable-model-invocation: true
description: >-
  Migrates Claude Code personal memory (the per-project memory/ directory) into tool-agnostic
  reference docs so other AI CLIs that auto-load AGENTS.md (Codex primarily) can read the same user
  profile and preferences. Use when the user says "migrate my memory", "my memory is locked to
  Claude Code", "make Codex/Cursor read my profile", or reports memory has grown bloated with
  content that should be shared across tools. Also use it to retire a project's auto memory
  entirely (turn it off, move everything into documents, archive the directory).
---

# Migrate Claude Code Memory to Tool-Agnostic Docs

## Why this skill exists

Claude Code's personal memory lives in `~/.claude/projects/<project-slug>/memory/`. It is **locked to Claude Code**: not version-controlled with the repo, invisible to every other tool. The moment the user runs Codex, Cursor, or any other AI CLI in the same directory, those tools cannot read "who the user is / how to work with them" — even though a user profile and collaboration preferences are exactly what *any* AI assistant should read first.

This skill moves the **cross-tool-shareable** content out of memory into a tool-agnostic location, and leaves memory as a thin handoff cache. The real problem it solves is **tool lock-in**, not "messy memory".

This skill runs **inline** (never `context: fork`): it spawns parallel review subagents and runs `codex` via Bash — a forked subagent could do neither.

## First: which goal?

| Goal | The user wants | Path |
|---|---|---|
| **A — end tool lock-in** | other AI tools to read the same profile and preferences; memory stays as a thin handoff cache | the Workflow below, all phases |
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