memory-refresh

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Periodic memory maintenance — archive session files, convert recurring knowledge into summaries, update the memory index. Activate at end of a major phase (Discovery complete, sprint done) or when memory spans many sessions. For emergency context-window pressure mid-task, use memory-compact instead.

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Memory Refresh

Purpose / When to Activate

Activate:

After major discovery or delivery phases
When memory exceeds comfortable context size
Periodically on active projects (weekly or per sprint)

This skill governs and optimizes existing memory only — it does not create new knowledge.

Process

Read memory index
Extract durable knowledge from session memory
Convert recurring or validated information into summary memory
Archive raw session files to contexts/memory/archive/
Compact with R7 category-aware rules:
- Durable memory (decisions, patterns, project, ops, contacts, domains): only entries with explicit supersession markers (> SUPERSEDED by DEC-XX, > RETRACTED, > OBSOLETE — {reason}) may be archived. All other entries are ACTIVE and MUST NOT be archived. Decisions are already individual ADR files (decisions/DEC-{N}.md) — no compaction needed. For other oversized durable files → domain-split, not archive.
- Ephemeral memory (sessions): standard compaction — summarize and archive. 5b. Summary lifecycle — mandatory when extending summary coverage: When creating or extending a decisions summary file that supersedes an existing one (e.g., decisions-90-145.summary.md → decisions-90-155.summary.md): a. Write the new summary file with updated frontmatter (id, updated_at, source range). b. Update index.md Summaries section: replace the old filename with the new one. c. Delete the old summary file from disk (it is now superseded; do not leave orphan files). d. Verify: confirm old filename is gone from disk AND index.md pointer is updated before proceeding. Also check decisions/_log.md for any ⚠️ PENDING: extend summary range notes — process them and remove the notes once handled.
Update memory index: update index.md frontmatter updated_at to reflect this refresh run.

Quality Checks

Active memory remains minimal and high-signal
Summaries become the primary long-term context source
Raw exploration is archived, not deleted
No uncontrolled memory growth
Index always reflects current active memory
No active durable memory entry archived — only superseded/retracted entries may be archived (R7/R7b)

Non-Goals

This skill must NOT:

Create new project memory
Record new decisions (use memory-ingest or decision-extraction)
Generate architecture context

Governs existing memory. Keeps it clean, cheap, and precise.