remind: Skill for Claude Code

Remind - Curating Memory

Keep the memory layer trustworthy: process pending episodes into concepts, triage contradictions, correct or retire stale items, and keep labels consistent.

Curation is where your reasoning turns raw episodes into lasting knowledge. Remind stores facts deterministically but relies on you to form patterns, identify relationships, and resolve conflicts.

When to curate

• Session end — process what accumulated during the session
• After bulk document ingestion — always run curation after reading multiple documents from different sources or time periods; this is when silent contradictions are most likely
• When recall or snapshot conflicts shows open conflicts
• When the user corrects something already stored

The curation loop

At session boundaries or when cleaning up memory:

1. Read current state

remind snapshot pending conflicts health

This returns JSON with:

• pending.episodes: Unprocessed episodes with their entities
• conflicts.conflicts: Open conflicts with full fact details
• health: Summary of issues needing attention (pending count, open conflicts, orphan concepts)

2. Find contradictions before forming concepts

This step is mandatory after bulk document ingestion. For each major theme in the pending episodes, run a recall query to surface what is already in the store:

remind recall "structural system framing" -k 8
remind recall "heating mechanical system" -k 8
remind recall "budget cost schedule" -k 8

Compare the recall output against the pending episodes. Look for:

• The same attribute stated with different values (e.g., two roof pitches, two budgets)
• A pending episode that explicitly supersedes an earlier document's claim
• Nearby episode IDs that were flagged during ingestion (shown in remember output as "Nearby — review for conflicts")

When you find a contradiction, record it immediately — do not defer to later:

remind apply << 'EOF'
conflict a=ep:<older_id> b=ep:<newer_id> note="doc A says timber frame, doc B says steel moment frame — needs triage"
EOF