Memory Engineering

Memory Engineering

Use when designing, reviewing, or paying for an agent memory system — adding memory to an agent, choosing between long-context / RAG / graph / agentic memory, auditing what a CLAUDE.md or memory directory actually holds, deciding what to keep and what to expire, or when a memory store keeps growing and nobody has said what leaves it. Prices the write path, picks which cost to pay, classifies records as facts / skills

Optimized workflow

This edition turns the source methodology into a repeatable agent workflow with explicit inputs, checkpoints and deliverables.

Quality standard

• Confirm scope and missing inputs before execution
• Ground decisions in available evidence and preserve source constraints
• Return an actionable result with assumptions, risks and next steps

Agent compatibility

The same core method is packaged for Claude, Codex, GPT, Gemini, Cursor and OpenCode.