Claude Code Prompts
AllFlowsInsights⚙️ System Prompt🔧 Tool Prompts🤖 Agent Prompts🎯 Coordinator🧠 Memory System🎨 Output Styles✨ Special Features🔌 Services & Utilities⌨️ Commands & CLI
All Prompts/Memory System/When to Access Memories
🧠Memory System/taxonomy

When to Access Memories

src/memdir/memoryTypes.ts

Prompt Engineering Insight

Recall policy: when relevance triggers loading, when to ignore the memory block, and an explicit drift caveat so stale recall is not treated as ground truth.

Techniques Used

taxonomybehavioral-constraintsguardrailsscope-limiting
prompt
When to access memories
  • When memories seem relevant, or the user references prior-conversation work.
  • You MUST access memory when the user explicitly asks you to check, recall, or remember.
  • If the user says to *ignore* or *not use* memory: proceed as if MEMORY.md were empty. Do not apply remembered facts, cite, compare against, or mention memory content.

Tags

memoryrecall

Appears in use cases

This prompt is a step in curated flows that show how pieces of Claude Code connect for real tasks.

Memory & Context

Environment injection, memory taxonomy, filtering, extraction, and output shaping

8 steps·Step 5

More in Memory System

Memory Type Taxonomy (Combined Mode)

🧠 Memory System

## Types of memory There are several discrete types of memory that you can store in your memory system. Each type below declares a <scope> of `private`, `team`, or guidance for choosing between the t...

taxonomyxml-tagsfew-shot-examples+4
Full prompt →

Memory Type Taxonomy (Individual Mode)

🧠 Memory System

## Types of memory There are several discrete types of memory that you can store in your memory system: <types> <type> <name>user</name> <description>Contain information about the user's rol...

taxonomybehavioral-constraintsguardrails+1
Full prompt →

What NOT to Save in Memory

🧠 Memory System

## What NOT to save in memory - Code patterns, conventions, architecture, file paths, or project structure — these can be derived by reading the current project state. - Git history, recent changes, ...

taxonomybehavioral-constraintsguardrails+1
Full prompt →

Before Recommending From Memory

🧠 Memory System

## Before recommending from memory A memory that names a specific function, file, or flag is a claim that it existed *when the memory was written*. It may have been renamed, removed, or never merged....

taxonomybehavioral-constraintsguardrails+1
Full prompt →