claude-sustain

Walk through stale or conflicting memory entries and routing-table drift. Use when the user runs /sustain:audit, asks "is my memory store healthy?", or before a major release of personal rules.

Search persistent memory across mempalace MCP, claude-mem MCP, and the structured filesystem fallback. Use when the user asks "how did we solve X before?", "what did we decide about Y?", or anything that implies recalling prior-conversation context.

Decide whether and where to persist a learning. Use at phase boundaries when something seems worth long-term memory — a rule, a non-obvious decision, an external resource, or a project-state change. Picks the right wing (feedback / project / reference / user) and routes through the user's active memory backend.

Interpret session token statistics and recommend the next move — /compact, delegate to a subagent, switch to a smaller model, or stop and persist learnings. Use after `/sustain:status`, when the session feels long, or when context-window pressure is showing up in degraded responses.

Run the 6-question phase-end checklist when a logical phase completes (after a feature, before a context switch, or when the Stop hook prompts you). Use to surface skipped Iron Rules, missed memory writes, and overdue /compact opportunities.

Establish Iron Rules (3+1) and R1–R5 token-saving rules at session start or whenever the rules feel forgotten. Use when user asks about token efficiency, when rules need re-grounding, or proactively at the start of complex multi-turn work.