Weekly Review Prompt

# Weekly Memory Consolidation Prompt

Run this prompt against your AI once a week. It will follow the `memory-consolidation.md` runbook and produce a consolidation report.

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**Prompt:**

> You are running the weekly memory consolidation pass.
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> Read `runbooks/memory-consolidation.md` and follow every step. Do not skip steps.
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> Specifically:
> 1. Measure the current state (line counts, file counts)
> 2. Classify every entry in `MEMORY.md` as LIVE / RESOLVED / STALE / DUPLICATE
> 3. Prune, demote, and merge according to the runbook
> 4. Tighten index entries
> 5. Compress old sessions
> 6. Surface unresolved tensions (deferred items with passed dates)
> 7. Write a consolidation report to `sessions/YYYY-MM-DD-memory-consolidation.md`
> 8. Verify the final state
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> Do NOT delete any files. Archive or merge only.
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> Do NOT rename files without checking for inbound links first.
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> When finished, give me a one-paragraph summary: before/after line count, number of items archived, number of items merged, and the top 3 unresolved tensions I need to decide on.

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## What to Do With the Report

- **Read the unresolved tensions section first.** Those are decisions only you can make.
- **Spot-check a few archived items** to make sure the AI didn't over-prune. Recent work (under 30 days) shouldn't be archived.
- **Approve or roll back.** If the consolidation looks wrong, restore from git (you ARE running this in a git-tracked repo, right?) and adjust the prompt.

## Cadence

Weekly is the default. Faster if your memory grows fast (active sprint, heavy incident work). Slower is risky — the longer you wait, the harder the classification work becomes.

## Safety

- Always run in a git-tracked directory so you can roll back
- Never run as a truly autonomous process until you've seen 3-4 consecutive consolidations that look correct
- The first run will be the most dramatic (biggest reduction) — that's normal