Use at the start of Link work when readiness is unclear, after installs or upgrades, and before repairs; verify health, inspect interrupted writes, back up, and repair generated indexes without MCP.
Use after important user-approved decisions, when durable context should be proposed or reviewed, and for explicit Link memory lifecycle work: remember, recall, review, update, archive, restore, forget, or explain local memories through the CLI without requiring MCP.
Use before answering work that may depend on user memory, project history, source-backed notes, or prior decisions; retrieve compact Link context through the CLI without loading the whole wiki or requiring MCP.
Use when raw files are present, source pages look stale, or a user asks to ingest notes into Link; refresh source-backed wiki pages, propose memories, and validate updates through the CLI without MCP.