What do I need to use Memory-File Maintenance?

The current file; What's changed; Any friction; New patterns.

Is Memory-File Maintenance free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Memory-File Maintenance

Q: How do I know the Memory-File Maintenance output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Reviews the file against who the person actually is now; Prunes stale/redundant/resolved content; Sharpens vague statements into actionable ones; Resolves contradictory instructions.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-06 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-ai-native

Keep your AI memory/context file (MEMORY.md, CLAUDE.md, custom instructions) healthy over time — pruning the stale, adding the new, and keeping it sharp so your AI keeps getting you right. Use when asked review my memory file, my AI context is outdated, clean up my CLAUDE.md, or maintain my AI instructions. Produces a review of your existing memory/instructions file (what's stale, contradictory, bloated, or missing), edits to prune and sharpen it, additions from recent patterns worth remembering, and a light maintenance habit — because a memory file that isn't tended drifts from who you actually are, with a privacy check on what should never be stored.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Review my CLAUDE.md — it feels outdated.”“Clean up my AI memory file, it's gotten bloated.”“My custom instructions aren't working well anymore — fix them.”“Maintain my MEMORY.md with how I've been working lately.”“My AI keeps getting me wrong — check my context file.”

What to give it

▸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

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Reviews the file against who the person actually is now

✓Prunes stale/redundant/resolved content

✓Sharpens vague statements into actionable ones

✓Resolves contradictory instructions

✓Adds missing recent patterns

✓Re-checks for sensitive data; sets a maintenance habit

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Only adding**, never pruning (bloat).

**Leaving contradictions** that confuse the AI.

**Vague rules** that don't actually change behavior.

**Letting sensitive data** sit in an AI-readable file.

**A one-time cleanup** with no ongoing habit.

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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🔌 Embed this skill

Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

<div data-pm-skill="memory-file-maintenance"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>

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