cortex-consolidatelisted
Install: claude install-skill cdeust/Cortex
# Consolidate — Memory Maintenance and Evolution
## Keywords
consolidate, maintenance, cleanup, compress, decay, merge, evolve, sleep, replay, consolidation, memory health, prune, clean up, optimize memories, reduce noise
## Overview
Run the full memory maintenance pipeline — modeled after biological memory consolidation. This includes heat decay (cooling unused memories), compression (full text to gist to tags), CLS consolidation (episodic to semantic), causal graph discovery, and sleep-like replay that strengthens important memory clusters.
**Use this skill when:** After a long session, after bulk imports, periodically (weekly), or when memory_stats shows too many hot memories or high noise.
## Workflow
### Step 1: Run Full Consolidation
```
cortex:consolidate({})
```
This runs the complete pipeline:
1. **Decay cycle** — Cool memories by heat * decay_factor. Memories below cold threshold (0.05) become candidates for compression
2. **Compression** — Old memories compress through stages: full text (7+ days) to gist, gist (30+ days) to tags
3. **CLS consolidation** — Frequently-accessed episodic memories promote to semantic store (like hippocampal-to-cortical transfer)
4. **Causal discovery** — PC Algorithm runs on entity co-occurrences to discover causal relationships
5. **Sleep compute** — Dream-like replay strengthens clusters, summarizes related memories, and re-embeds compressed content
### Step 2: Review Results
The response includes:
- `memories_decayed` — ho