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Manage ephemeral .memory/ conversation state across multi-day sessions. Checkpoint todos, decisions, and questions; promote artifacts to permanent knowledge; clean up after promotion. Use when: the user says 'checkpoint', 'save working memory', 'promote working memory', 'clean up memory', wants to persist conversation artifacts for a future session, or resumes work and asks 'what were we working on' near a .memory/ directory. Do not trigger for native auto-memory operations.
backchainai/backchain-plugins · ★ 4 · AI & Automation · score 68

Install: claude install-skill backchainai/backchain-plugins

# Working Memory Manage ephemeral `.memory/` directories for persisting structured conversation state across multi-day Claude Code sessions. Three commands cover the full lifecycle: | Command | Purpose | |---------|---------| | `/engram:working checkpoint` | Create or update `.memory/` with current conversation state | | `/engram:working promote` | Move `.memory/` artifacts to permanent knowledge locations | | `/engram:working cleanup` | Delete promoted content, preserve the directory | The skill is invoked as `/engram:working` (the plugin-qualified skill name) followed by the subcommand. Natural-language phrasings like "checkpoint working memory" trigger the same dispatch. ## Working memory vs auto memory This skill complements [Claude Code's native auto memory](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory). They serve different purposes: | | Working memory (this skill) | Auto memory (native) | |---|---|---| | **Trigger** | User-initiated (`/engram:working checkpoint`) | Automatic (Claude decides what's worth remembering) | | **Content** | Structured work state — todos, decisions, questions | Implicit learnings — corrections, preferences, patterns | | **Lifecycle** | Ephemeral: checkpoint → promote → cleanup | Persistent until manually deleted | | **Scope** | Per-directory (`.memory/` in CWD) | Per-project (`~/.claude/projects/<project>/`) | | **Promotion path** | Explicit: ADRs, issue-tracker entries, docs | Implicit: stays in MEMORY.md / topic files | **Use working memory