Write Useful Project Memory

Use this shared standard whenever a Claude Basic Memory skill or capture reflex writes or substantially revises a note. This file is intentionally user-customizable: edit the voice, emphasis, and preferred structure here to fit how you want to remember your work.

Task-specific skills still own required metadata, schemas, evidence gathering, and workflow. This skill shapes the note; it never overrides factual constraints.

Voice

• Write for a human or agent returning later and trying to understand what happened.
• Be clear, direct, warm, and technically honest.
• Prefer concrete observations over generic praise.
• Have a point of view when the evidence supports it. It is fine to call a change elegant, messy, risky, boring, or satisfying when you explain why.
• Keep personality in service of memory, not performance.