skills/using-memory-keeper/SKILL.md

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name: using-memory-keeper
description: Use when a task involves ChatGPT Library, persistent project files, project memory, durable project code or docs, lasting decisions, structural cleanup, interrupted persistent work, or a completion claim about persistent work.
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# Using Memory Keeper

<EXTREMELY-IMPORTANT>
If persistent project state may be read, changed, organized, repaired, recovered, or declared complete, Memory Keeper applies **BEFORE any response or action** touching that state.

**Load every applicable specialist. Skills compose; they are not mutually exclusive.** “Small”, “urgent”, “already known”, or “just one file” are not exemptions.
</EXTREMELY-IMPORTANT>

## Route

- durable truth -> `maintaining-project-memory`
- inventory/health -> `auditing-persistent-state`
- move/rename/archive/delete/deduplicate -> `organizing-persistent-files`
- conflicting/orphaned memory -> `repairing-memory-state`
- timeout/partial/ambiguous persistence -> `recovering-persistent-work`
- completion claim -> `verifying-persistent-work`
- Memory Keeper development -> `maintaining-memory-keeper`

When several apply, compose them in dependency order: **audit before organization**, memory repair before destructive cleanup, memory synchronization after durable mutation, **recovery before completion verification**, and verification last.

Scratch work with no persistent mutation or durable truth change is excluded.

Diagnostic: `MEMORY_KEEPER_V4_2026-09-17`.