# memory-audit

Reviews MEMORY.md, spots stale or duplicated entries, and prepares a change plan. Use it when the memory cache has crossed its limit.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 34
- Author: awrshift
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/awrshift/agent-memory-kit/tree/HEAD/plugins/memory-kit/skills/memory-audit/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/memory-audit

## What it does

The skill reads `.claude/memory/MEMORY.md` and checks concept files, handoffs, project rules, and plugin reference titles. It labels each section by what should happen next: move a settled pattern, dissolve a session block, remove copied rules, point derived numbers to their source, update stale text, or keep useful material.

It presents the proposed changes as a table with targets and reasons. Once approved, the skill performs the accepted moves atomically, updates the memory header, and records deferred candidates. It does not write before explicit approval, so the plan can be reviewed before any files change.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill memory-audit -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill memory-audit -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill memory-audit -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install awrshift/agent-memory-kit memory-audit
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/memory-audit/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill memory-audit -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/awrshift/agent-memory-kit --path plugins/memory-kit/skills/memory-audit
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill memory-audit -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/awrshift/agent-memory-kit/tree/HEAD/plugins/memory-kit/skills/memory-audit/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- audit `MEMORY.md` after a cap is triggered
- split session blocks into topic-based notes
- move settled patterns into `knowledge/concepts/`
- remove duplicated rules and stale entries

## Example prompts
- Run `/memory-kit:memory-audit` and prepare a table of proposed changes to `MEMORY.md`.
- Audit memory for session-headed sections and settled patterns that belong in `knowledge/concepts/`.
- Clean up the memory cache after a cap trip, but wait for my approval before writing anything.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: memory-audit
description: Audit MEMORY.md against the memory discipline — oversized sections, settled multi-session patterns that belong in knowledge/concepts/, session-headed chronicle blocks, restated rules, copied numbers, stale entries. Produces a move plan as a table for approval, then executes the approved moves atomically. Use when the SessionStart hook reports a tripped cap or session-headed blocks, when PreCompact blocks on an oversized cache, or when the user says "/memory-kit:memory-audit", "audit memory", "проверь память", "почисти память". Refuses only when no cap is tripped, no session block is flagged AND no settled-pattern candidate exists.
allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Edit(.claude/memory/**), Edit(knowledge/**)
---

# Memory audit — the surgical one-file pass

This is the **cap-trip response**, not the daily ritual. `/memory-kit:close-session` runs every
session and captures; this runs when the hot cache has actually outgrown itself and something
must LEAVE it. Keeping them separate is the point: a daily ritual that also has to do surgery
becomes a ritual people skip.

**Always pause for approval before writing.** The user talks; you write — including here.

## Inputs

- `.claude/memory/MEMORY.md` — read in full.
- `knowledge/concepts/*.md` — filenames + first 5 lines, for duplicate detection (the directory
  may not exist yet; the first move creates it).
- `context/handoffs/` — to confirm a session narrative already lives there → **drop**, not move.
- The newest `context/audits/memory-audit-deferred-*.md`, if one exists — the candidates the
  previous audit left; start from them.

## Step 1 — classify every section

Scan by `## ` heading (and `###` inside a long section). For each, count lines and mark exactly
one action. Also read the project's `CLAUDE.md`, the `.claude/rules/*.md` without `paths:` and
the plugin's `reference/` titles — you need them for `restates-rule`.

| Mark | When |
|---|---|
| `move (create)` | a settled pattern (confirmed on 3+ distinct dates) with >25 lines of reference detail |
| `move (merge)` | same, but a concept article on the topic already exists |
| `session-block` | the heading names a session or a date, not a topic (`### s66 (2026-09-25)`, `## Session 65 wrap`, `## Findings [date] — …`; the SessionStart hook flags these) → dissolve by topic: each settled lesson → one line under its topic heading or a concept; the rest → drop |
| `drop` | a per-session chronicle — it already lives in a handoff; distil at most one settled line |
| `restates-rule` | the entry says what `CLAUDE.md`, an always-loaded rule or a `reference/` file already says → drop, or one pointer line if the link is not obvious. The agent reads those files every session; a second copy only drifts |
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