claude: back up custom skills, memory, and settings with symlink pattern

The ~/.claude/ directory was previously local-only — a machine wipe
would have lost the accumulated memory, custom skills, and settings.
This commit moves the durable parts into dotfiles with the same
symlink-to-home pattern used for CLAUDE.md, PENDING.md, REVIEWED.md,
and L2-BOOTSTRAP.md.

Preserved (symlinked from ~/.claude/* into here):
  skills/audit/              — thinking-folder drift scanner
  skills/symmetria/          — practice-of-return discipline
  skills/vault-update-people/ — Obsidian People-file maintainer
  skills/wake-up/            — session restoration
  skills/wrap-up/            — session state capture
  memory/                    — 55+ memory files (MEMORY.md, sessions,
                               ledgers, project state, feedback, etc.)
  settings/settings.json     — user preferences (hooks, flags, no secrets)

Deliberately NOT backed up:
  settings.local.json   — contains operational secrets (HF_TOKEN,
                           SSH password in expect scripts); by naming
                           convention, *.local.* is not synced.
                           Needs separate review and probable rotation.
  sessions/, history.jsonl, caches, telemetry — ephemeral
  plugins/, marketplace skills and agents — reinstallable

The working copies at ~/.claude/skills/* and
~/.claude/projects/-Users-davidglidden/memory are symlinks into this
directory, so every write flows here automatically. install.sh
recreates the symlinks on a fresh machine.

FOLLOW-ON (flagged, not in this commit):
  settings.local.json contains a HuggingFace token and an SSH password
  as plaintext strings inside allowed Bash command patterns. These
  should be rotated and moved to secure storage (keychain / pass /
  env file outside the settings file).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
name: MemPalace dev tooling
description: MemPalace installed as dev context tool — venv in _Dev/mempalace, MCP wired at user scope, 6134 drawers from thinking docs
type: reference
---
## MemPalace — Dev Tooling Setup
**Location:** `~/_Dev/mempalace/` (git clone, MIT license)
**Data:** `~/_Dev/mempalace/.local-data/palace/` (ChromaDB + SQLite, ~36MB)
**Venv:** `~/_Dev/mempalace/.venv/`
**MCP:** Wired at user scope via `run-mcp.sh`
**What's ingested:**
- `CapableMind-AI/docs/thinking/David/` — 191 files, 6,134 drawers, wing: `capablemind-thinking`
- Rooms: l2_constitution (67), chamber (43), observer_problem (21), methodology (12), l1_reliability (11), architecture (11), concepts (9), amendments (7), general (6), issues (3), reviews (1)
**Not yet ingested:**
- Specs (`CapableMind-AI/docs/specs/`)
- Chamber library (`chamber-library/`)
- Session transcripts
- Obsidian vault
**CLI usage:**
```bash
cd ~/_Dev/mempalace && source .venv/bin/activate
MEMPALACE_PALACE_PATH=.local-data/palace python -m mempalace.cli search "query"
MEMPALACE_PALACE_PATH=.local-data/palace python -m mempalace.cli search "query" --wing capablemind-thinking --room observer_problem
```
**MCP tools available in Claude Code:**
mempalace_search, mempalace_status, mempalace_list_wings, mempalace_list_rooms, mempalace_get_taxonomy, mempalace_check_duplicate, mempalace_add_drawer, mempalace_delete_drawer
**Cleanup:** `rm -rf ~/_Dev/mempalace/` removes everything. Also remove MCP: `claude mcp remove mempalace`
**Note:** MemPalace artifacts (`mempalace.yaml`, `entities.json`) added to CapableMind-AI `.gitignore`.