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David F GliddenandClaude Opus 4.7 119285cf43 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>
2026-04-17 13:51:04 +02:00

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name, description, type
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MemPalace dev tooling MemPalace installed as dev context tool — venv in _Dev/mempalace, MCP wired at user scope, 6134 drawers from thinking docs 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:

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.