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Memory Doctor — Code Quality skill for Claude Code

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Agent memory rots quietly.

How to install Memory Doctor

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open escoffier-labs/memory-doctor and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Memory Doctor does

Agent memory rots quietly. Doctor checks it before sessions pay the cost. status, lint, compact for Claude Code and OpenClaw. Also embedded in brigade-cli.

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README

Memory Doctor

Agent memory rots quietly. Doctor checks it before sessions pay the cost.

Maintenance CLI for file-based agent memory: status, lint, ingest, compact for Claude Code and OpenClaw layouts. Much of this is now embedded in brigade-cli as brigade memory.

Website · Install · brigade memory (embedded)

CI status

Install

# Preferred path: embedded in Brigade
pipx install brigade-cli
brigade memory status
brigade memory lint
brigade memory compact

# Standalone (legacy package)
pipx install memory-doctor   # if published; else clone this repo

What it does

	Job	What you get
Status	See the footprint	Cards, index size, pending handoffs
Lint	Catch dead links	Broken wiki links and stale structure
Compact	Stay under budget	Flatten bloated MEMORY.md into topic cards
Ingest	Promote handoffs	Bridge notes into durable memory carefully
Init Git	Make changes reviewable	Initialize and baseline the memory directory