consolidatelisted
Install: claude install-skill backchainai/backchain-plugins
# Consolidate
Audit knowledge directories and Claude Code auto memory for stale, misplaced, or duplicated content. Produce an editable plan file the user reviews, then execute approved actions. Designed to **complement**, not replace, native auto-memory: this skill never modifies `MEMORY.md` directly and never deletes auto-memory entries — it focuses on graduation (promoting stable entries to permanent rules) and on knowledge directories outside auto-memory's scope.
## Relationship with auto memory
Native [Claude Code auto memory](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory) writes implicit learnings to `~/.claude/projects/<project>/memory/`. This skill **complements** it:
| Concern | Native auto memory | `consolidate` (this skill) |
|---------|-------------------|---------------------------|
| Capture implicit learnings | Yes | No — defer to native |
| Maintain `MEMORY.md` index | Yes (manual edits via `/memory`) | No — never modify directly |
| Graduate feedback → rules / CLAUDE.md | No | Yes — primary responsibility |
| Audit project knowledge directories | No | Yes — user-declared scan roots |
| Manage staging-directory lifecycle | No | Yes — age-based classification |
| Detect stray operational knowledge | No | Yes |
**Do not:**
- Recommend `DELETE` or `ARCHIVE` for files inside `~/.claude/projects/<project>/memory/`. Use the `RULES` or `CLAUDEMD` actions to *graduate* stable entries; deletion of the source file then happens as part of graduation, not as cleanup.
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