memory-file-maintenance

memory-file-maintenance is a skill for Claude Code from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 146 tokens per session (1,112 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review and cleanup service for an AI memory or instruction file, such as MEMORY.md or CLAUDE.md. It keeps useful context clear, current, and free of sensitive information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find stale rules, resolve conflicts, sharpen vague instructions, add useful patterns, and check for private data.
Why use it?
These files can grow outdated, repetitive, or contradictory, causing an AI assistant to follow confusing instructions. Regular maintenance keeps its stored guidance aligned with how you work now.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the pm-ai-native plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to find stale rules, resolve conflicts, sharpen vague instructions, add useful patterns, and check for private data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/memory-file-maintenance
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,449 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill memory-file-maintenance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-ai-native, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,112 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00146 $0.01112
Opus 5.5 $0.00058 $0.00445
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00111

Measured 2d ago against content hash 41c20de2e92f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-file-maintenance scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/pm-ai-native/skills/memory-file-maintenance/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The current file — your MEMORY.md / CLAUDE.md / custom instructions (paste it)
  • What's changed — how your work, preferences, or life have shifted since you wrote it
  • Any friction — where the AI has been getting you wrong lately (a clue to what's stale/missing)
  • New patterns — recent rules, lessons, or preferences worth capturing

Framework: Prune, Sharpen, Add, Protect

  1. Review against reality. Compare what's in the file to who the person actually is now — files drift as people change.
  2. Prune the dead weight. Remove stale rules, resolved situations, and redundancy — a bloated file dilutes the important stuff and confuses the AI.
  3. Sharpen the vague. Turn fuzzy statements into clear, actionable ones ("be concise" → "lead with the answer, then reasoning") so they actually work.
  4. Resolve contradictions. Surface instructions that conflict (a common cause of inconsistent AI behavior) and pick one.
  5. Add what's missing. Capture new preferences, patterns, and lessons from how the person's actually been working — the file should grow with them.
  6. Re-check privacy. Confirm nothing sensitive (credentials, financial, health, others' personal info) has crept in — and remove it if so.
  7. Set a light habit. A quick periodic review plus adding a line when a new pattern emerges keeps it current without being a chore.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 71 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A 41c20de2e92f

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memory-file-maintenance is a skill published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,449 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 1,112 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-12.

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