memory-management

Memory Management Skill

Use AutoMem to maintain persistent context across Claude Code sessions. This skill teaches the 3-Phase Memory Pattern: Recall → Store → Summarize.

Phase 1: SESSION START (Recall)

Always Recall For

• Project context questions (architecture, tooling, deployment)
• Architecture discussions or decisions
• User preferences and code style
• Debugging issues (search for similar past problems)
• Refactoring (understand why current structure exists)
• Integration or API work (check past implementations)
• Performance optimization discussions

Adaptive Recall Based on Context

• Files open → Recall memories tagged with those components
• Error messages → Search for similar error patterns
• Multiple files → Recall architectural decisions
• PR/commit context → Recall related feature implementations

Skip Recall For

• Pure syntax questions ("How does Array.map work?")
• Trivial edits (typos, formatting, simple renames)
• Direct factual queries about current code
• File content requests that can be answered by reading

Recall Examples

// Basic project recall
mcp__memory__recall_memory({
  query: "project architecture decisions",
  tags: ["project-name"],
  limit: 5
})

// Debug similar errors
mcp__memory__recall_memory({
  query: "TypeError authentication timeout",
  tags: ["bug-fix"],
  time_query: "last 30 days",
  limit: 5
})

// Multi-hop reasoning (find related context)
mcp__memory__recall_memory({
  query: "Who worked on the auth system?",
  expand_entities: true,
  limit: 10
})

// Context-aware coding recall
mcp__memory__recall_memory({
  query: "error handling patterns",
  language: "typescript",
  context: "coding-style",
  context_types: ["Style", "Pattern"]
})

Phase 2: DURING WORK (Store)

What to Store with Importance Levels

Type	Importance	When to Store
Decision	0.9	Architecture, library choices, pattern decisions
Insight	0.8	Root cause discoveries, key learnings, bug fixes
Pattern	0.7	Reusable approaches, best practices
Preference	0.6-0.8	User config choices, style preferences
Context	0.5-0.7	Feature summaries, refactoring notes