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claude: complete MemPalace setup — hooks, identity, wings, config

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Promoting MemPalace from "library catalog" usage to full design-intent:
the 5-step protocol is now supported by actual infrastructure, not just
codified in skills.

Changes:

settings/settings.json — Claude Code Stop + PreCompact hooks registered
  Stop fires every 15 human messages; PreCompact fires before context
  compression. Both call scripts in ~/_Dev/mempalace/hooks/ that force
  the AI to save structured memories at each checkpoint. Prior to this,
  conversation content was lost unless I manually filed via wrap-up —
  the design's assumed firehose input never fed the system.

mempalace/identity.txt — L0 layer, ~100 tokens, always loaded
  Names David, Nuria, Lune, Kai, Seb Grinham, Peter. Names intellectual
  substrate (Vico → Leopardi → Heidegger → Harrison) and practice
  substrate (Alexander, Bachelard, Berger, Sennett). Names the three-
  party model and the prime directive. This is what the system knows
  about me before any query fires.

mempalace/wing_config.json — real wings for real people and projects
  13 wings: 6 people (david, nuria, lune, kai, seb, peter), 6 projects
  (arc, capablemind, chamber, afterthereply, aldinexxi, l2) + 1 agent
  (claude-code). Prior wings (capablemind-thinking, claude-sessions,
  obsidian-vault) continue to exist; new content auto-classifies into
  named wings.

mempalace/config.json — palace path aligned with MCP server
  Previously config.json pointed at ~/.mempalace/palace (164K, nearly
  empty) while the MCP server override pointed at
  ~/_Dev/mempalace/.local-data/palace (920MB, populated). Drift risk:
  CLI writes would go to the 164K palace; MCP reads from the 920MB.
  Now config.json matches MCP.

memory/session-ledger-2026-04-17.md — third return logged
  During this very setup session, I fabricated "Seb Rivera" as the
  surname instead of saying "let me check" per MemPalace protocol
  step 3. Steward corrected to Sebastian Grinham. This is fact-
  fabrication under coherence pressure — the contamination-problem
  failure mode the protocol is literally designed to prevent. The
  irony of violating it while installing the system is named. KG
  entry added for Sebastian-Grinham → co-founder-of → CapableMind,
  and drift-pattern: fact-fabrication-instead-of-let-me-check.

install.sh + README.md — updated restore procedure and documentation
  install.sh now restores mempalace/ setup files alongside skills and
  memory. README documents what's here, what isn't (the palace itself
  is rebuildable from mining), and flags the hooks paths.

Mining of ~/.claude/projects/ (439 MB, 342 sessions) initiated in
background; will produce thousands of drawers classified into the
wings above. This is 6+ months of conversation history finally
filed into the palace.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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David F Glidden
2026-04-17 14:33:01 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.7
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@@ -32,7 +32,19 @@ Real path: `~/.claude/projects/-Users-davidglidden/memory/` symlinks here.
### `settings/settings.json` — Claude Code user settings
Sanitized. Contains hook registrations and feature flags. No secrets.
Sanitized. Contains hook registrations (including the MemPalace auto-save hooks) and feature flags. No secrets.
### `mempalace/` — MemPalace setup files
The bootstrap configuration for MemPalace. These files live at `~/.mempalace/` but are also backed up here because they represent the accumulated understanding of who-is-who and what-is-what. The palace itself (`~/_Dev/mempalace/.local-data/palace/`, ~1GB) is NOT backed up — it's rebuildable by re-running `mempalace mine` against the same source data.
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `config.json` | Palace path + default topic wings + hall keywords |
| `identity.txt` | L0 layer — loaded every session; ~100 tokens identifying who I am, who the steward is, intellectual substrate |
| `wing_config.json` | Named wings for real people and projects (wing_david, wing_nuria, wing_lune, wing_kai, wing_seb, wing_peter, wing_arc, wing_capablemind, wing_chamber, wing_afterthereply, wing_aldinexxi, wing_l2, wing_claude-code) |
The auto-save hooks (wired in `settings/settings.json` via `Stop` and `PreCompact` events) point at `~/_Dev/mempalace/hooks/mempal_save_hook.sh` and `mempal_precompact_hook.sh`. If MemPalace is reinstalled elsewhere, update those paths.
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