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Keep Memory Reusable

Save patterns and preferences that survive across sessions; never save snapshots of finished work.

Memory should hold patterns and preferences that pay off in future sessions: how the user likes feedback framed, what style of code review they want, recurring constraints. It should not hold snapshots of finished work — the bug you fixed last Tuesday, the PR title you used last month. Stale snapshots actively mislead future sessions when the project moves on. Ask: 'Will this entry help me a month from now?' If not, don't save it.

Where you'll practice this

One Promptles scenario teaches this principle directly.

  • Memory Hygiene

    You just finished a two-week feature flag rollout — the `new_dashboard` flag is now at 100% and the cleanup PR is merged. In the post-mortem, your teammate suggested you 'tell Claude to remember everything we learned' so it can help next time. You're tempted to dump a…

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