Mnemonic Compact

Overview

Memory goes stale: topics get duplicated across entries, decisions get overridden, bugs get fixed. Compacting cleans up the mnemonic/ directory so future sessions don't act on dead information.

Entries are referenced with the ♫/NNN shorthand (♫/000 is the index); files on disk live at mnemonic/NNN-short-slug.md. See the mnemonic-memory skill for how entries are created and structured.

What Gets Compacted — Confusion, Not Clutter

The test for every entry is: would a future session act wrongly because of it? Compact only entries that mislead:

• A decision that was later reversed or overridden
• An approach that was tried and disapproved, still reading as the current plan
• A finding the code has since invalidated
• Two entries that contradict each other with no marker saying which one won

Everything else stays — compacting is not tidying. Do NOT compact: