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Retention Decay — Documentation skill for Claude Code

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Skill for applying time-based confidence decay to wiki pages — knowledge fades unless reinforced, at rates that vary by page type.

How to install Retention Decay

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/bradduy-wiki-knowledge-compiler-retention-decay/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/bradduy-wiki-knowledge-compiler-retention-decay && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bradduy/wiki-knowledge-compiler/HEAD/skills/retention-decay.md -o ~/.claude/skills/bradduy-wiki-knowledge-compiler-retention-decay/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Retention Decay does

name: retention-decay description: Skill for applying time-based confidence decay to wiki pages — knowledge fades unless reinforced, at rates that vary by page type type: rigid

Retention Decay Skill

Knowledge that isn't accessed or reinforced becomes less reliable over time. This skill implements Ebbinghaus-style forgetting curves adapted to a knowledge base. Follow it exactly.

Core principle

Every page's `confidence` decays over time based on how long it has been since `verifie

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